truculence

Related to truculence: pedagogical, complaisance

truc·u·lent

(trŭk′yə-lənt)

adj.

1. Disposed or eager to fight or engage in hostile opposition; belligerent.

2. Showing or expressing bitter opposition or hostility; aggressively defiant: a truculent speech against the new government; a truculent glance.

3. Disposed to violence; ferocious or cruel.

[Latin truculentus, from trux, truc-, fierce; see terə- in Indo-European roots.]

truc′u·lence (trŭk′yə-ləns), truc′u·len·cy (-lən-sē) n.

truc′u·lent·ly adv.

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Noun

truculence - obstreperous and defiant aggressiveness

truculency

pugnacity, belligerence, aggressiveness - a natural disposition to be hostile

truculence

noun

1. Warlike or hostile attitude or nature:

bellicoseness, bellicosity, belligerence, belligerency, combativeness, contentiousness, hostility, militance, militancy, pugnaciousness, pugnacity, truculency.

2. The power or will to fight:

bellicoseness, bellicosity, belligerence, belligerency, combativeness, contentiousness, fight, pugnaciousness, pugnacity, truculency.

3. A cruel act or an instance of cruel behavior:

barbarity, bestiality, brutality, cruelty, inhumanity, savagery, truculency.

Translations

aggressivit...aggressivo

truculence

[ˈtrʌkjʊləns] N → agresividad f, mal humor m

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

truculence

n → Trotzigkeit f, → Aufsässigkeit f

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

truculence

[ˈtrʌkjʊləns] n → aggressività f inv, brutalità f inv

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