Pugnacious

Adjective

 * 1) Naturally aggressive or hostile; combative; belligerent.
 * 2) * 1858, Anthony Trollope, Dr Thorne, ch. 3:
 * Not that the doctor was a bully, or even pugnacious, in the usual sense of the word; he had no disposition to provoke a fight, no propense love of quarrelling.
 * 1) * 1904, Jack London, The Sea Wolf, ch. 15:
 * As he made the demand he spat out a mouthful of blood and teeth and shoved his pugnacious face close to Oofty-Oofty.
 * 1) * 2003, Ken Follett, Hornet Flight, ISBN 9780451210746, pp. 249-250:
 * In the face of bad news Churchill normally became even more pugnacious, always wanting to respond to defeat by going on the attack.

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:combative

Thesaurus
aggressive, antagonistic, battling, bellicose, belligerent, bickering, bloodthirsty, bloody, bloody-minded, brawling, chauvinist, chauvinistic, combative, contentious, disputatious, divisive, enemy, eristic, factional, factious, ferocious, fierce, fight, fighting, full of fight, hawkish, hostile, inimical, irascible, irritable, jingo, jingoish, jingoist, jingoistic, litigious, martial, militant, militaristic, military, offensive, partisan, polarizing, polemic, pushing, pushy, quarrelsome, rebellious, saber-rattling, sanguinary, sanguineous, savage, scrappy, self-assertive, shrewish, soldierlike, soldierly, trigger-happy, truculent, unfriendly, unpacific, unpeaceable, unpeaceful, warlike, warmongering, warring, wrangling

Etymology
, a form of pugno:, from pugnus:, from roots.

Translations

 * Dutch:, vechtlustig
 * Finnish:
 * German: ,
 * Italian:


 * Latin:
 * Polish: wojowniczy, awanturniczy
 * Russian: драчливый
 * Spanish: pugnaz,