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Meaning of pugnacious

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  pugnacious
      adj 1: tough and callous by virtue of experience [syn: {hard-
             bitten}, {hard-boiled}, {pugnacious}]
      2: ready and able to resort to force or violence; "pugnacious
         spirits...lamented that there was so little prospect of an
         exhilarating disturbance"- Herman Melville; "they were rough
         and determined fighting men" [syn: {pugnacious}, {rough}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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