pugnacious
/pug-NAY-shus/adjectiveeager or quick to argue or fight
“A pugnacious lawyer objected to the greeting.”
- Synonyms
- combative, belligerent, truculent
- Antonyms
- peaceable, conciliatory
- Memory hook
- pugnare (fight): fists-first temperament.
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