Truculent Synonyms and Antonyms

trŭkyə-lənt
So sharp as to cause mental pain
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. acerbic
  2. acid
  3. acidic
  4. acrid
  5. astringent
  6. biting
  7. caustic
  8. corrosive
  9. cutting
  10. mordacious
  11. mordant
  12. pungent
  13. scathing
  14. sharp
  15. slashing
  16. stinging
  17. trenchant
  18. vitriolic

Words Related to Truculent

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Truculent Sentence Examples

  • They behaved in the most high-handed, brutal and truculent manner.

  • Zobair, who complained in a somewhat truculent letter that Moawiya's slaves had been guilty of trespassing.

  • The most savage and truculent of the tribes are those who live in the forest regions; the most advanced in culture, the dwellers in the plains.

  • Since 1898 the country has been opened, and from being the most lawless and truculent of people the Bariba have become singularly amenable and lawabiding.

  • I immediately saw a truculent little boy, the despair of his well-meaning liberal parents.

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