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Pugnaciously is the adverb: in a pugnacious way. Someone who answers pugnaciously is not only disagreeing; they are coming at you, ready for a fight, in how they speak or act. He argued pugnaciously means the arguing itself had that eager, clashing quality. Same formal, slightly literary coat as pugnacious. Everyday English might say aggressively, or in a way. Though actually, students sometimes hear the fight in it and think it means . It does not. It is about to clash, not about courage. You need a verb to hang it on: she smiled pugnaciously, they defended the idea pugnaciously. The person is pugnacious; the trait is pugnacity; this word tells you how they did the thing.
好鬥地、好爭辯地
組成pugnacious + -ly. In use since the early 19th century.
同家族的字
- pugnaciousthe adjective this is made from
- pugnacitythe noun for the same trait
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
pugnaciouslyadv
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In an aggressive or combative manner.
- Moreover, in using it he waggled his scalp at her in a way that made his crest of hair bristle up pugnaciously, as if proposing combat with her on the spot.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。