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Definition: Truculence |
TruculenceNoun1. Obstreperous and defiant aggressiveness. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "truculence" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1903. (references) |
Synonym: TruculenceSynonym: truculency (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Malevolence | Hardness of heart, heart of stone, obduracy; cruelty; cruelness; Adjective: brutality, savagery; ferity, ferocity; barbarity, inhumanity, immanity, truculence, ruffianism; evil eye, cloven foot; torture, vivisection. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| "Truculence" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Truculence" is used about 14 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 14 | 93,893 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "truculence"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | vrazhdësi (abruptness, asperity, barbarity, brutality, clownery, crudity, harshness, incivility, roughness, rudeness, rusticity), egërsi (atrocity, bestiality, callousness, cruelty, ferocity, fierceness, furiosity, fury, ill-treatment, inclemency, rabidity, rabies, savagery, virulence). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | وحشية (atrocity, barbarity, brutality, butch, cannibalism, cruelty, devilry, feretory, ferocity, fierceness, inhumanity, ruffianism, savagery, shyness, thuggery), عدوانية (aggression). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | свирепост (ferocity, fierceness, savagery), грубост (asperity, barbarity, broadness, callosity, crudity, curtness, foulness, harshness, incivility, indelicacy, roughness, rudeness, toughness), жестокост (barbarity, brutality, cannibalism, cruelty, excess, ferocity, fierceness, inhumanity, toughness), агресивност (aggression, aggressiveness, militancy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | sveřepost (atrocity), divokost (ferocity, fierceness, wilderness), agresivita (aggressiveness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | وحشیگری(truculency), سبعیت (Atrocity, Brutality), خشونت (Discourtesy, Loathloth, Rigor, Severity, Stricture, Violence). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | brutalité, agressivité. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Wildheit (ferocity, fierceness, haggardness, jazziness, rabidness, rampancy, roughness, ruggedness, savageness, savageries, savagery, tigerishness, unruliness, wildness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | βιαιότητα (asperity, truculency, turbulence, violence), αγριότησ (cruelty, savagery, truculency, wildness), αγριότητα (cruelty, ferocity, fierceness, savagery, wildness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | תוקפ ות (aggression, aggressiveness, pugnacity), פראות (barbarity, ferity, ferocity, fierceness, savagery, wildness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | garázdaság (breach of peace, rowdyism, truculency). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | kegalakan (audacity, ferocity, fierceness, gruffness, rampancy, truculency). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | olk (bad, bad-hearted, bad-looking, evil, ill, injury, lousy, mischief, morally wrong, naughtiness, unfavourable, vice, vicious, wicked), caulg (barb, beard of barley, bristle, prickle, testiness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | uculencetray sãlbãticie (atrocity, barbarity, brutality, cruelty, ferocity, fierceness, primitiveness, ruggedness, savageness, savagery, wildness, wilds), ferocitate (atrocity, bloodthirstiness, cruelty, ferociousness, ferocity, fierceness, grimness, savageness, savagery, wildness). (various references) свирепость (ferocity, savagery, truculency). (various references) svirepost (atrocity, ferocity, fierceness, savagery, wantonness), ratobornost (bellicosity, belligerence, militancy, pugnacity), prkos (defiance, purslane, spite), okrutnost (cruelty, harshness, sternness), divljaštvo (barbarism, barbarity, savagery), borbenost (fight, militancy). (various references) ferocidad (ferociousness, ferocity, fierceness, savageness, savagery, wildness), agresividad (aggressiveness, aggro, belligerence, belligerency, self-assertion, thrustfulness). (various references) stridslystnad (pugnacity, truculency). (various references) zalimlik (fiendishness, inhumanity, oppressiveness), gaddarlık (atrocity, barbarity, brutality, cruelty, ferocity, fiendishness, grimness, inhumanity, perfidy, savageness), acımasızlık (atrocity, cold blood, cruelty, harshness, implacability, inexorability, pitilessness, ruthlessness). (various references) грубість (abruptness, asperity, barbarism, barbarity, broadness, brutality, callousness, clumsiness, coarseness, crudity, harshness, roughness, rusticity, shagginess), лютість (ferocity, fury, savageness). (various references) tính t n nhẫn tính hùng hỗ (truculency), tính t n bạo (bloodiness, bloodthirstiness, inhumanity, savageness, savagery, truculency), tính hung hăng (aggressiveness, headiness, truculency). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "truculence": truculences. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-c-e-e-l-n-r-t-u-u" | |
-2 letters: relucent. | |
-3 letters: culture, lectern, lecture, lucence, lucerne. | |
-4 letters: center, centre, crenel, curule, cutler, eluent, lucent, lucern, neuter, recent, relent, reluct, retune, runlet, tenrec, tenure, tercel, tureen, uncurl, uncute, unreel, untrue. | |
-5 letters: centu, creel, cruel, cruet, culet, curet, cuter, elect, elute, enter, enure, erect, eruct, lucre, lunet, recce, recut, relet, rente, terce, terne, treen, truce. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-c-e-e-l-n-r-t-u-u" | |
+1 letter: truculences. | |
+2 letters: truculencies. | |
+4 letters: counterculture. | |
+5 letters: countercultures. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage Frequency 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Derivations 6. Anagrams 7. Bibliography |
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