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1. truculent

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Usually means: Aggressively defiant and hostile behavior.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. truculent: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. truculent: Merriam-Webster
  3. truculent: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. truculent: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. truculent: Collins English Dictionary
  6. truculent: Vocabulary.com
  7. truculent: Wordnik
  8. truculent: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. truculent: Wiktionary
  10. truculent: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. truculent: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. truculent: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. truculent: Dictionary.com
  14. truculent: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. truculent: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Truculent: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Truculent: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. truculent: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. truculent: Rhymezone
  20. truculent: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. truculent: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. truculent: FreeDictionary.org
  23. truculent: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  24. truculent: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. truculent: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. truculent: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. truculent: A Word A Day

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. truculent: Urban Dictionary

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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ adjective:  Cruel or savage.
▸ adjective:  Defiant or uncompromising.
▸ adjective:  Eager or quick to argue, fight or start a conflict.
▸ adjective:  (of speech or writing) Violent; rude; scathing; savage; harsh.
▸ adjective:  (obsolete, rare, of a disease) Destructive; deadly.

Similar:
aggressive, hostile, vicious, rotten, cruelsome, savagerous, butcherly, boarish, brutelike, brutist, more...

Opposite:
amenable, compliant, obliging, tractable

Adjectives:
little, more, somewhat, first, own

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Similar:
aggressive, hostile, vicious, rotten, cruelsome, savagerous, butcherly, boarish, brutelike, brutist, more...

Opposite:
amenable, compliant, obliging, tractable

Adjectives:
little, more, somewhat, first, own

Colors:
    charcoal,     crimson,     burgundy,     maroon,     blood red, more...



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