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General dictionaries General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. pugnacious: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
  2. pugnacious: Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, 11th Edition [home, info]
  3. pugnacious: Cambridge International Dictionary of English [home, info]
  4. pugnacious: Wiktionary [home, info]
  5. pugnacious: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info]
  6. pugnacious: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info]
  7. pugnacious: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info]
  8. Pugnacious, pugnacious: Dictionary.com [home, info]
  9. pugnacious: Online Etymology Dictionary [home, info]
  10. pugnacious: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]
  11. pugnacious: Cambridge Dictionary of American English [home, info]
  12. Pugnacious: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
  13. pugnacious: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info]
  14. pugnacious: Rhymezone [home, info]
  15. pugnacious: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
  16. pugnacious: Webster's 1828 Dictionary [home, info]
  17. pugnacious: Hutchinson's Dictionary of Difficult Words [home, info]
  18. pugnacious: Free Dictionary [home, info]
  19. pugnacious: Hutchinson Dictionaries [home, info]
  20. pugnacious: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info]
  21. pugnacious: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info]
  22. pugnacious: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info]
  23. pugnacious: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]

Miscellaneous dictionaries Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. pugnacious: A Word A Day [home, info]
  2. pugnacious: Wordcraft Dictionary [home, info]

Quick definitions (pugnacious)

adjective:  ready and able to resort to force or violence ("Pugnacious spirits...lamented that there was so little prospect of an exhilarating disturbance- Herman Melville")
adjective:  tough and callous by virtue of experience

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