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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fight |
| Synonyms: | aggression, aggressiveness, attack, backbone*, bellicoseness, bellicosity, belligerence, belligerency, boldness, combativeness, contentiousness, gameness, hardihood, mettle, militancy, pluck, pugnaciousness, pugnacity, resistance, spirit, truculency |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | truculence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | cruelty |
| Synonyms: | animality, barbarism, barbarity, bestiality, bloodthirstiness, brutality, brutishness, callousness, coarseness, coldness, depravity, despotism, ferocity, fiendishness, fierceness, hard-heartedness, heartlessness, inhumanity, insensibility, insensitiveness, malice, malignity, masochism, mercilessness, murderousness, persecution, rancor, ruthlessness, sadism, savageness, savagery, severity, spite, spitefulness, torture, truculency, unfeelingness, unkindness, venom, viciousness, wickedness |
| Main Entry: | cruelty |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | brutality, harshness |
| Synonyms: | animality, barbarism, barbarity, bestiality, bloodthirstiness, brutishness, callousness, coarseness, coldness, depravity, despotism, ferocity, fiendishness, fierceness, hard-heartedness, heartlessness, inhumanity, insensibility, insensitiveness, malice, malignity, masochism, mercilessness, murderousness, persecution, rancor, ruthlessness, sadism, savageness, savagery, severity, spite, spitefulness, torture, truculence, unfeelingness, unkindness, venom, viciousness, wickedness |
| Antonyms: | charity, compassion, consideration, feeling, gentility, kindness, mercy, niceness, thoughtfulness |
Example Sentences
- She moves through life in a coiled sulk, ready at the slightest provocation to explode out of quiet truculence into rage.
- Destructive truculence is why you have governments telling companies exactly what they must disclose.
- On and on they went until the feeling of celebration became self-congratulatory to the point of truculence.
| Main Entry: | chip on one's shoulder |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | belligerent attitude |
| Synonyms: | fight, gauntlet, truculence |
| Main Entry: | bellicoseness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fight |
| Synonyms: | aggression, aggressiveness, animosity, antagonism, argumentativeness, bellicosity, belligerence, belligerency, combativeness, combativity, contentiousness, hostility, pugnaciousness, pugnacity, truculence, truculency |
| Main Entry: | bellicosity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fight |
| Synonyms: | aggression, aggressiveness, animosity, antagonism, argumentativeness, bellicoseness, belligerence, belligerency, combativeness, combativity, contentiousness, hostility, pugnaciousness, pugnacity, truculence, truculency |
| Main Entry: | belligerence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fight |
| Synonyms: | aggression, aggressiveness, animosity, antagonism, argumentativeness, bellicoseness, bellicosity, belligerency, combativeness, combativity, contentiousness, hostility, pugnaciousness, pugnacity, truculence, truculency |
| Main Entry: | belligerency |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fight |
| Synonyms: | aggression, aggressiveness, animosity, antagonism, argumentativeness, bellicoseness, bellicosity, belligerence, combativeness, combativity, contentiousness, hostility, pugnaciousness, pugnacity, truculence, truculency |
| Main Entry: | bestiality |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | cruelty |
| Synonyms: | barbarity, beastliness, brutality, depravity, inhumanity, inhumanness, savagery, truculence, truculency, wickedness |
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