truculent

形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ˈtɹʌk.jʊ.lənt/    美 /ˈtɹʌk.jə.lənt/

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Cruel or savage.
    — The truculent soldiers gave us a steely-eyed stare.
  2. Defiant or uncompromising.
    — In her turn, Helen Burns asked me to explain, and I proceeded forthwith to pour out, in my own way, the tale of my sufferings and resentments. Bitter and truculent when excited, I spoke as I felt, without reserve or softening.
  3. Eager or quick to argue, fight or start a conflict.
    — She might pity herself, but he must not pity her. She did not want any quarrel; she blamed him for wanting one, but she could not help assuming a truculent attitude.
  4. Violent; rude; scathing; savage; harsh.
    — Voltaire is never either gross or truculent.
  5. Destructive; deadly. obsolete,rare
    — More or less truculent Plagues.

词形变化

more truculent comparative most truculent superlative

词汇关系

相关词
truculence truculency truculently belligerent

词源

First attested circa 1540, from Middle French, from Latin truculentus (“fierce, savage”), from trux (“fierce, wild”).
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