pugnacious

Từ điển Oxford Learners Wordfinder Dictionary

adjective

1. tough and callous by virtue of experience
• Syn:
hard-bitten, hard-boiled
• Similar to:
tough
2. ready and able to resort to force or violence
- "pugnacious spirits...lamented that there was so little prospect of an exhilarating disturbance"- Herman Melville
- they were rough and determined fighting men
• Syn:
rough
• Similar to:
aggressive
• Derivationally related forms:
roughness (for: rough), pugnacity

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  rough, hard-bitten, hard-boiled