Truculent

Adjective

 * 1) Of things or persons that are cruel or savage
 * When we were touring on a riverboat near Dandong, the truculent North Korean soldiers from the other side of the river gave us a steely-eyed death stare.
 * 1) Deadly or destructive.
 * 2) Defiant or uncompromising.

Quotations

 * 1847, Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre, ch VI,
 * In her turn, Helen Burns asked me to explain, and I proceeded forthwith to pour out, in my own way, the tale of my sufferings and resentments. Bitter and truculent when excited, I spoke as I felt, without reserve or softening.
 * 1860-1861, Charles Dickens, Great Expectations, ch XLVI,
 * She really was a most charming girl, and might have passed for a captive fairy, whom that truculent Ogre, Old Barley, had pressed into his service.
 * 1895, H. G. Wells, The Wheels of Chance, ch 10,
 * Most of them were little dramatic situations, crucial dialogues, the return of Mr. Hoopdriver to his native village, for instance, in a well-cut holiday suit and natty gloves, the unheard asides of the rival neighbours, the delight of the old 'mater,' the intelligence—"A ten-pound rise all at once from Antrobus, mater. Whad d'yer think of that?" or again, the first whispering of love, dainty and witty and tender, to the girl he served a few days ago with sateen, or a gallant rescue of generalised beauty in distress from truculent insult or ravening dog.
 * 1914, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Beasts of Tarzan, ch 10,
 * If he came too close to a she with a young baby, the former would bare her great fighting fangs and growl ominously, and occasionally a truculent young bull would snarl a warning if Tarzan approached while the former was eating.
 * 1922,Rafael Sabatini, Captain Blood: His Odyssy, ch XVI,
 * Cahusac appeared to be having it all his own way, and he raised his harsh, querulous voice so that all might hear his truculent denunciation.

Synonyms

 * : barbarous, cruel, ferocious, fierce, savage
 * : deadly, destructive
 * : defiant, inflexible, stubborn, uncompromising, unyielding
 * See also Thesaurus:obstinate

Related terms

 * truculence
 * truculency
 * truculently

Adverbs for Truculent
unbearably; offensively; boldly; daringly; intolerably; boorishly; unmistakably; openly; brutally; challengingly; brazenly; grossly; ominously; inordinately; alarmingly; disagreeably; unreasonably; always; sullenly; singularly; curiously; uncommonly; viciously; vengefully; villainously.

Thesaurus
Draconian, Tartarean, abrupt, aggressive, animal, antagonistic, anthropophagous, atrocious, bad-tempered, barbaric, barbarous, battling, bearish, beastly, bellicose, belligerent, bestial, bloodthirsty, bloody, bloody-minded, bluff, blunt, brash, browbeating, brusque, brutal, brutalized, brute, brutish, bullying, cannibalistic, cavalier, chauvinist, chauvinistic, churlish, combative, contentious, contumelious, cowing, cruel, cruel-hearted, crusty, curt, demoniac, demoniacal, devilish, diabolic, enemy, fell, feral, ferocious, fiendish, fiendlike, fierce, fighting, frightening, full of fight, grim, gruff, harsh, hawkish, hellish, hostile, ill-tempered, infernal, inhuman, inhumane, inimical, intimidating, invective, jingo, jingoish, jingoist, jingoistic, martial, militant, militaristic, military, murderous, nasty, obstreperous, offensive, opprobrious, pugnacious, quarrelsome, rough, rude, ruthless, saber-rattling, sadistic, sanguinary, sanguineous, satanic, savage, scathing, scrappy, scurrile, scurrilous, severe, sharkish, sharp, short, slavering, snippy, soldierlike, soldierly, subhuman, sullen, surly, terrifying, terrorizing, trigger-happy, unchristian, uncivilized, unfriendly, unhuman, unpacific, unpeaceable, unpeaceful, unpleasant, vicious, violent, virulent, vituperative, warlike, warmongering, warring, wolfish

Etymology
First attested circa 1540, from truculentus:, from trux:.

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Anagrams

 * unclutter

Adjective

 * 1) Violent or belligerent in a colorful, over-the-top or memorable fashion.

Etymology
From truculentus:, from trux:.