Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Disposed to fight; pugnacious.
- adj. Expressing bitter opposition; scathing: a truculent speech against the new government.
- adj. Disposed to or exhibiting violence or destructiveness; fierce.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Fierce; savage; barbarous.
- Inspiring terror; ferocious.
- Cruel; destructive.
Wiktionary
- adj. cruel or savage
- adj. Deadly or destructive.
- adj. Defiant or uncompromising.
- adj. Eager or quick to argue, fight or start a conflict.
GNU Webster's 1913
WordNet 3.0
- adj. defiantly aggressive
Etymologies
- First attested circa 1540, from Latin truculentus ("fierce, savage"), from trux ("fierce, wild"). (Wiktionary)
- Latin truculentus, from trux, truc-, fierce; see terə-2 in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“A kind of truculent honesty which he could never dissemble for long, always stood in his way.”
“To interpret him according to this image -- a womanish figure in a long robe and a turban, with big bare arms and a dramatic pose -- would be to think of him as a kind of truculent sultana.”
“As Mrs. Dinks made no reply, and assumed the appearance of a lady who, for her own private and inscrutable reasons, had concluded to forego the prerogative of speech for evermore, while she fanned herself calmly, and regarded Fanny with a kind of truculent calmness that seemed to say,”
“The general manager of the Leafs has famously stated he wants a "truculent" and”
“Letter, of the "truculent" and "unhappy" national symbol presiding over the entrance to Salem‘s”
National Demons: Robert Burns, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and the Folk in the Forest
“A kind of truculent question was in his eyes -- as much as to say, "Now then, what do you make of it all?”
“They are of the gloomy, razor-bearing variety; full of short-sighted lies and prompt dishonesties, amusing always, but truculent and tricky; and the sunny sweetness which we all know in the Negro character is not there.”
“She would show up in a hard hat, like some truculent crusader.”
“Fischer's increasingly bizarre, truculent behavior alienated friends and family and landed him in serious legal trouble.”
The Huffington Post: Dan Lybarger: The Search Is Over: Liz Garbus on Bobby Fischer Against the World
“Check out these widely-publicized riffs from Noah Pollak of the Emergency Committee for Israel and the permanently truculent folks at Front Page magazine.”
The Huffington Post: Dan Fleshler: Why the Jewish Right Is Terrified by J Street's Conference
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘truculent’.
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Muse's tacet ,to learn
Music brings silence's to raging thoughts and temperament , calm, as it is our object of definite purpose.
tacet, cadence, tempo, treble clef, penultimate, lexicon, origin, orchestra, kantele, magus, eros, coalesce and 248 more...
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from phrontistery.info
tabacosis, tabanid, tabaret, tabati?re, tabby, tabefaction, tabellary, tabellion, tabernacle, tabernacular, tabescent, tabific and 930 more...
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501
Classic
aberration, abstruse, anomaly, assiduous, august, banal, boisterous, dulcet, epitome, impudent, insolent, mellifluous and 401 more...
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Words from Blood Meridian
visage, affray, scullery, miasma, mirth, purlieu, tacit, benighted, wickiup, corral, amble, accoutre and 210 more...
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501
Classic
aberration, abstruse, anomaly, assiduous, august, banal, boisterous, dulcet, epitome, impudent, insolent, mellifluous and 401 more...
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GRE 2014
abate, abdicate, abase, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abjure, abortive, abound, abrasive, abreast, abridge and 1577 more...
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From reading
Collected from reading
venerate, reprobate, reticent, adoration, ethereal, ephemeral, equivocal, contumacious, heinous, solicitous, agnostic, aberration and 335 more...
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501
Classic
irk, teem, blight, pith, moot, mete, ire, bane, bilk, boor, elan, ado and 401 more...
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(1st_wk_150)-Dec_5_2012
voracious, indiscriminate, eminent, steeped, replete, abound, technology, prognosticate, automaton, matron, paradox, realm and 297 more...
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501
Classic
bane, bilk, boor, elan, ado, toil, onus, aberration, abstruse, anomaly, assiduous, august and 401 more...
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Used
halcyon, ineluctable, inspissated, incarnadine, askance, demur, saltation, requisite, effusive, specious, liminality, indomitable and 114 more...
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Words build meanings from origins( et...
These come from gamma meditation ,I think.
discursive, exogenous, machinations, purportedly, sumptuous, congruity, cantankerous, incongruous, festoon, hessian, ratiocinative, stratigraphic and 2053 more...
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Philosophic , etymology
every major discipline has uniquely developed esoteric nomenclature to facilitate interdisciplinary dissemination
quale , qualia, elegy, tacet, lexicon, annunciate, caste, eros, contrive, purlicue, irony, venacular, dilapidate and 569 more...
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man gre
abase, abeyance, abreast, abscission, abscond, abyss, accede, accretion, acerbic, acidulous, acumen, adulterate and 483 more...
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GRE Practice
coruscate, preternatural, preclude, retrench, perfidy, sophistry, sedulous, martinet, churlish, dissembler, prevarication, impugn and 38 more...
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big book gre
abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 6691 more...
Tweets
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kingparton A strong, astringent, bilious nature has more truculent enemies than the slugs and moths that fret my leaves.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Conduct of Life Nov 19, 2011
Noelle Knight "Though the window had broken mostly in big pieces, a few bits of glass fell from her as she rose, and I flicked an eye at Eric to make sure he understood he should clean them up. He had a truculent set to his mouth."-Dead as a Doornail, by Charlaine Harris May 18, 2011
bilby "Bitter and truculent when excited, I spoke as I felt, without reserve or softening."
- Charlotte Bronte, 'Jane Eyre'. Nov 3, 2009
iarwain "Uhh, hey mate, uhhh . . . about that truck you lent me . . ."
The man stared truculently at the wall as the police officers asked him about the murder of the man he let borrow his vehicle. May 15, 2009
reesetee ...but I hope you don't revel in scum. Feb 16, 2007
chained_bear I got my CD today. Yay! I'm a truculent bigot! Feb 15, 2007
chained_bear "I'm a truculent bigot, I revel in scum." --The Bolshoi
This word triggered the memory of that lyric, and reminded me I have been too long without a CD of the Bolshoi, so I actually went and bought it just now. This site does strange things to me... Feb 13, 2007
brtom "He passes, struck by the stare of truculent Wellington ..."
Joyce, Ulysses, 15 Jan 28, 2007