pugnacious Definition

aggressive, tough, rough, hard-bitten, hard-boiled, combative, feisty, brash, truculent, irascible, confrontational, belligerent, bellicose, garrulous, cantankerous, loquacious, gruff, brusque, outspoken, voluble, ferocious, affable, gregarious, tenacious, defiant, cocky, imperious, waspish, ebullient, jovial, pugilistic, acerbic, bombastic, boisterous, uncompromising, brutish, petulant, strident, talkative, arrogant, dour, haughty, fearless, impetuous, forthright, hotheaded, flamboyant, genial, bumptious, taciturn, jocular, diffident, rumbustious, amiable, imperturbable, charismatic, unstatesmanlike, avuncular, unflappable, irrepressible, doughty, abrasive, steely, mercurial, owlish, phlegmatic, excitable, rotund, laconic, redoubtable, cocksure, snappish, choleric, clubbable, urbane, jowly, statesmanlike, stolid, ruthless, brusk, insouciant, bristly, dapper, boyish, effusive, conciliatory, stoic, thuggish, undemonstrative, obstreperous, curmudgeonly, flinty, gentlemanly, obdurate, wily, stoical, unflashy, snarly, surly, temperamental,