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truculent

/ˈtrʌkjələnt/adjective

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उग्र, झगड़ालू, लड़ाकू, आक्रामक रूप से अवज्ञाकारी

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adjective
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    formal

    easily annoyed and always ready to argue or fight; aggressively defiant

    उग्र, झगड़ालू, लड़ाकू, आक्रामक रूप से अवज्ञाकारी

    • The truculent youth refused to show his ticket and shouted at the conductor.
    • a truculent letter demanding an apology
    • The truculent customer shouted at everyone in the queue.
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    • He gave a truculent reply and walked out of the meeting.
    • The team captain was truculent and argued with the referee.

    Synonyms aggressive belligerent defiant hostile combative

    Opposite amiable peaceable gentle cooperative

◇Word family
truculence nountruculently adv.
≈Synonyms and antonyms
AaSpelling

truc·u·lent

With -culent (not 'truculant' or 'trucculent'); from the Latin trux, fierce; nothing to do with truck.

अंत में -culent ('truculant' या 'trucculent' गलत है); Latin trux, उग्र, से; truck से कोई संबंध नहीं।

?Which word?

Keep the fighting words together: truculent (aggressively defiant), pugnacious (eager to fight), belligerent (hostile, at war), bellicose (warlike), quarrelsome (fond of arguing).

लड़ाई के शब्द साथ याद रखिए: truculent (आक्रामक अवज्ञाकारी), pugnacious (लड़ने को उत्सुक), belligerent (शत्रुतापूर्ण, युद्धरत), bellicose (युद्धप्रिय), quarrelsome (बहस का शौकीन)।

§Grammar and usage

The noun truculence.

Usage: Adjective truculent का noun रूप truculence है, जिसका मतलब है झगड़ालू और आक्रामक स्वभाव। Truculent व्यक्ति हर बात पर लड़ने को तैयार रहता है।