Antonyms for pugnacity

Grammar : Noun

Spell : puhg-ney-shuhs

Phonetic Transcription : pʌgˈneɪ ʃəs

Definition of pugnacity

Origin : c.1600, from Latin pugnacitas "fondness for fighting," from pugnax (genitive pugnacis) "combative" (see pugnacious).

noun fight
noun belligerence

Example sentences :

Her expression lost its pugnacity and became sincerely concerned.
Extract from : « 'Twixt Land & Sea » by Joseph Conrad

We must defend ourselves, so the instinct of pugnacity is born.
Extract from : « The Mind and Its Education » by George Herbert Betts

The 'Mercury' missed his power of organisation, his splendid gift of pugnacity.
Extract from : « Grey Town » by Gerald Baldwin

The struggling crowd had lashed his pugnacity and ensanguined his temper.
Extract from : « The Californians » by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

Celtic, he thought, from her pugnacity, and her taste in fillets and djibbahs.
Extract from : « The Forsyte Saga, Volume III. » by John Galsworthy

There was nothing like the pugnacity of the Kiddy in these years of Prothero's disaster.
Extract from : « The Creators » by May Sinclair

This, in a youth not seventeen, urged well for the pugnacity of the man.
Extract from : « Thrilling Narratives of Mutiny, Murder and Piracy » by Anonymous

Fear and pugnacity are too apparent in fish to require special proof.
Extract from : « Animal Intelligence » by George J. Romanes

Well, tenacity or pugnacity conquered, and I worked on until dusk.
Extract from : « Tales of Secret Egypt » by Sax Rohmer

Yet his pugnacity was really foreign to the nature of the man.
Extract from : « Hugh Miller » by William Keith Leask

Synonyms for pugnacity

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