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Definition: Truculent |
TruculentAdjective1. Defiantly aggressive; "as truculent as a small boy who thinks his big brother can lick anybody". 2. Aggressively hostile; "a truculent speech against the new government". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "truculent" was first used: 1540. (references) |
Etymology: Truculent \Tru"cu*lent\, adjective. [Latin expression truculentus, from trux, gen. trucis, wild, fierce: compare to the French expression truculent.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Malevolence | Cruel; brutal, brutish; savage, savage as a bear, savage as a tiger; ferine, ferocious; inhuman; barbarous, barbaric, semibarbaric, fell, untamed, tameless, truculent, incendiary; bloodthirsty; (murderous); atrocious; bloodyminded. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Truculent |
| English words defined with "truculent": truculently. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Truculent" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. French (earthy, juicily, juicy, lushly, sappy, vigorous). |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | He strolled toward the truck, looking truculent and stern. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Truculent" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 96.15% of the time. "Truculent" is used about 52 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 96.15% | 50 | 48,117 |
| Noun (proper) | 3.85% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 52 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "truculent": bellicose combative pugnacious scrappy truculent. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
truculent | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "truculent"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | i vrazhdë (abrupt, austere, bad tempered, boeotian, boorish, brutal, brutish, churlish, clownish, coarse, crude, discordant, dissonant, earthy, fretful, grave, gross, hard, hard-fisted, harsh, heavy-handed, ill natured, low-bred, morose, murky, robustious, rough, rough spoken, rude, scurrilous, severe, stern, sullen, surly, uncivil, unfinished, unhandsome, unmannerly), i ashpër (argute, austere, biting, bluff, bluffy, Brant, bristly, brusque, churlish, coarse, crude, ding-dong, dour, draconian, draconic, gravelly, grim, gruff, hard, harsh, ill, ill natured, inclement, keen, malevolent, pipy, raucous, rigid, rigorous, rough, rough and ready, rude, savage, scabrous, scathing, scratchy, severe, shaggy, slashing, smart, stern, strict, tough, uncharitable, unkind, unmerciful, violent, wiry), brutal (bestial, boorish, brutal, brutish, Randy, rank, rusty, slangy, unfinished, unhandsome, unrefined), agresiv (aggressive). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مولع بالقتال (bellicose, belligerent, combatant, combative, pugnacious), مشاكس (aggressive, bitchy, cantankerous, contentious, currish, dissentious, fresh, obstreperous, ornery, petulant, pugnacious, quarrelsome, rowdy, sorehead, termagant), وحشي (atrocious, barbarian, barbarous, bestial, bloodthirsty, bloody, brutal, brute, brutish, cannibalistic, cruel, diabolic, diabolical, draconian, feral, fiendish, fierce, ill, inhuman, inhumane, insensate, remorseless, ruffian, savage, unfeeling, vicious, wanton, wild), عدواني (aggressive, cantankerous, offensive, petulant, quarrelsome, squabble), ضار (detrimental, felled, ferocious, fierce, hurtful, impish, injurious, malign, malignant, noisome, noxious, pernicious, pest, poisonous, predatory, prejudicial, rabid, rapacious, ravenous, savage, set, sharp, unhealthy, unwholesome, vicious). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | унищожителен (consuming, consumptive, exterminatory, scorching, thunderous), свиреп (ferocious, fierce, grim, lupine, outrageous, rabid, savage), нападателен (aggressive, incursive, militant, offensive), жесток (bestial, bloody, butcherly, cruel, dark, diabolic, diabolical, draconian, draconic, fell, ferocious, fiendish, fierce, ghoulish, grinding, harsh, ill, infernal, inhuman, inhumane, iron, mean, merciless, monstrous, outrageous, sanguinary, shrewd, slashing, unfeeling, unkind, unmerciful, unrelenting), агресивен (aggressive, fresh, scrappy), побойнически (pugnacious, ruffianly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | sveřepý (atrocious), divoký (boisterous, feral, ferine, ferocious, fierce, gone wild, obstreperous, uncivilized, unruly, untamed, wild, wildcat), agresivní (belligerent). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | vechtlustig, militant. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | batalema. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | قصی القلب , وحشی (Barbaric, Barbarous, Brutal, Ferocious, Gross, Harebrained, Rambunctious, Ruffian, Ruttish, Savage, Uncivil, Uncivilized, Undaunted, Ungovernable, Unshaped(En), Wild), سبع (Atrocious, Brute, Ferocious, Fierce, Murderous, Savage, Voracious, Wroth), خشن (Blatant, Blowsy, Blowzy, Boorish, Brutish, Churlish, Coarse, Crusty, Gruff, Harsh, High, Hoarse, Impolite, Indelicate, Knockkneed, Plebeian, Ragged, Random, Rough, Rowdy, Rude, Scraggy, Ungracious, Unkempt, Unmannered, Unmennerly, Wooden), بی رحم (Brutal, Brute). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | batailleur. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | trotzig (awkward, contrary, defiant, difficult, obstinate, stubborn), aufsässig (defiant, insubordinate, obstreperous, obstreperously, rebellious, rebelliously, recalcitrant, restive). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | σκληρόσ (bloody minded, callous, cold-hearted, cruel, crusty, flinty, hard, scirrhous, steely, stiff, stony, stubbed, stubbly, tough), άγριοσ (black, feral, ferocious, fierce, harsh, lupin, lupine, sassy, savage, violent, wild), θηριώδησ (ferocious, savage, tigerish). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | תוקפ י (aggressive, bellicose, obsidional, pugnacious), פראי (bestial, brutal, brute, feral, ferocious, fierce, savage, wild). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | garázda (riotous, rowdy, ruffianly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | aggressivo (aggressive, assaulting, offensive, raiding, rampant). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | caulgagh (bad-tempered, barbed, bearded; lesser weaver, bristly, exasperating, prickly, waspish). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | uculenttray truculento, selvagem (barbaric, brutal, feral, goth, riderless, savage, unbacked, unsociable, wild, wilding), lutador (fighter, fighting), feroz (fell, ferocious, fierce, rampant, sanguinary, savage, tigerish, tigrish, wild, wilding, wolfish), cruel (atrocious, barbaric, bitter, bloody, boarish, candle-wick, cruel, dark, fell, felon, fierce, grim, hard-hearted, heartless, inhuman, iron, merciless, pitiless, ruffian, ruthless, scathing, severe, shrewish, squint-eyed, tigerish, tigrish, uncharitable, unfeeling, unkind, unmerciful, wicked, wolfish), batalhador, bárbaro (barbarian, barbaric, barbarous, brute, bumbling, cloddish, cruel, fell, larrikin, lawless, low-lived, ruffianly, tramontane, uncivilized, uncouth, wild), agressivo (aggressive, assertive, belligerent, ill-conditioned, offensive, pushy). (various references) violent (acute, bad, boisterous, desperate, fiercely, furious, heady, heavy, high, high-spirited, impetuous, raging, rampageous, rampant, rankly, robust, rough, rowdy, rude, rugged, severe, sharp, splitting, strong, sudden, towering, ungovernable, vehement, violent, virulent, wanton), sãlbatic (barbarous, bloodthirsty, brutal, brutish, cruel, feral, ferine, ferocious, fierce, fiery, haggard, harsh, impetuous, inhuman, inhumanly, rugged, sanguinary, savage, shaggy, tameless, uncivilized, uncouth, uncouthly, uncultivated, uncultured, ungovernable, unruly, unsociable, violent, wild, wild man), fioros (atrocious, dreadful, fell, ferocious, fierce, horrible, macabre), feroce (awful, barbarous, bloodthirsty, brutal, cruel, dreadful, fearful, ferocious, ferociously, fierce, inhuman, ruthless, savage, savagely, unmerciful), crud (brutal, brutally, callous, callow, crude, cruel, cruelly, cut throat, dire, foully, gory, green, hard, harsh, immature, merciless, raw, ruthless, sanguinary, savage, savagely, sodden, sour, unfeeling, violent, violently, wolfish, young), brutal (beastly, boorish, brutal, brutally, cruelly, feral, insensate, rough, roughly, rude, savage, savagely, violent), aprig (cruel, ferocious, fierce, fiery, grim, hard-hearted, harshly, high-spirited, impetuous, passionate, passionately, severe, sharp, violent). (various references) свирепый (ferocious, fierce, furious, savage, wicked). (various references) svirep (atrocious, brutal, brute, cruel, farouche, ferocious, fierce), ratoboran (bellicose, belligerent, combative, militant, pugnacious, warlike), prkosan (defiant, spiteful), okrutan (cruel, dispiteous, flagitious, flinty, hardhearted, harsh), borben (combat, militant, scrappy). (various references) salvaje y feroz, agresivo (aggressive, belligerent, militant, rampant, self-assertive, thrustful). (various references) kaksi. (various references) vild (coltish, delirious, ding-dong, ferae naturae, feral, ferine, ferocious, fierce, frenetic, haggard, headlong, madcap, phrenetic, rampant, riotous, savage, truculant, untamed, wild, wildcat), stridslysten (bellicose, combative, contentious, controversial, disputatious, militant, pugnacious, quarrelsome, scrappy, warlike), aggressiv (aggressive, truculant). (various references) zalim (arbitrary, atrocious, bloody minded, brutal, cruel, cutthroat, daemon, demon, draconian, draconic, fell, felon, fiendish, flinty, grim, heavy, heavy-handed, ill natured, inhuman, miscreant, ogre, oppressive, oppressor, outrageous, persecutor, sanguinary, savage, stony, tyrannic, tyrannical), vahşi (atrocious, barbarian, barbaric, brutal, brute, churlish, feral, ferocious, haggard, heathen, heathenish, rude, savage, tigerish, uncivilized, wild, wolfish), haşin (austere, crusty, forbidding, harsh, inclement, rough, rude, severe, stern), acımasız (atrocious, brutal, coldhearted, cruel, cutthroat, dead, despot, ferocious, fiendish, flinty, grim, hard-hearted, harsh, implacable, inclement, inexorable, inhumane, merciless, outrageous, pitiless, relentless, ruthless, slashing, stern, tyrannic, tyrannical, tyrannous, unmerciful, unpitied, unrelenting, without remorse). (various references) грубий (abrupt, artless, barbaresque, barbaric, base, bearish, boarish, broad, brusque, brute, caddish, chuffy, churlish, clownish, clumsy, coarse, coarse grained, crass, crude, gross, hard boiled, homely, ill bred, knockabout, offhand, plebeian, primitive, ribald, rough, rough spoken, rude, scratchy, shaggy, surly, swinish, uncouth), лютий (angry, diabolic, diabolical, fell, ferocious, fierce, out and out, rampant, savage, wicked). (various references) t n nhẫn hùng hổ, t n bạo (barbarously, bloodthirsty, brutal, cruel, cruelly, draconian, draconic, ferocious), hung hăng (aggressive, heady, scalp, swashbuckling, volcanic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | truculentus. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "truculent": truculently. (additional references) | |
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"Truculent" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Ruccolen, trculent, trucculant, trucelent, truclent, trucluent, truclulent, truculant, truculenty, trucullant, trucullent, trukulant, turulent. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "truculent" (pronounced tru"kyulunt) |
| 8 | -u" k y u l u n t | succulent. |
| 6 | -y u l u n t | opulent, stimulant, turbulent. |
| 5 | -u l u n t | ambivalent, benevolent, equivalent, excellent, flatulent, fraudulent, indolent, insolent, jubilant, malevolent, nonviolent, petulant, prevalent, somnolent, vigilant, violent, virulent. |
| 4 | -l u n t | assailant, coolant, divalent, esculent, gallant, inhalant, monovalent, propellant, repellent, sealant, silent, talent, tetravalent. |
| 3 | -u n t | abandonment, abatement, aberrant, abhorrent, abortifacient, absent, absorbent, abstinent, abundant, accelerant, accident, accompaniment, accomplishment, accountant, accouterment, achievement, acknowledgement, acknowledgment, adamant, adherent, adjacent, adjournment, adjustment, adjutant, adolescent, adornment, advancement, advertisement, advisement, afferent, affiant, affluent, agent, aggrandizement, agreement, ailment, alignment, allotment, amazement, ambient, amendment, amusement, ancient, announcement, annulment, antecedent, antidepressant, antigovernment, antioxidant, apartment, apparent, appeasement, applicant, appointment, apportionment, ardent, argent, argument, armament, arraignment, arrangement, arrant, arrogant, ascendant, aspirant, assessment, assignment, assistant, assortment, astonishment, astringent, atonement, attachment, attainment, attendant, banishment, basement, battlement, belligerent, bemusement, beneficent, bereavement, betterment, bewilderment, blandishment, blatant, bombardment, brilliant, buoyant, celebrant, claimant, clairvoyant, Clement, client, coefficient, cogent, cognizant, coherent, coincident, combatant, commandment, commencement, commitment, compartment, competent, complacent, complainant, complaisant, complement, compliant, component, comportment, concealment, concomitant, concurrent, condiment, confident, confinement, confluent, consequent, consignment, consistent, consonant, constant, constituent, consultant, containment, contaminant, contentment, contestant, continent, contingent, convalescent, convenient, convent, convergent, conversant, copayment, corespondent, cormorant, correspondent, Courant, covenant, Crescent, crosscurrent, current, curtailment, debarment, debasement, decadent, decedent, decent, declarant, decongestant, defendant, deferment, defiant, deficient, defoliant, delinquent, deodorant, department, dependent, deployment, deportment, depressant, derailment, descendant, descendent, despondent, detachment, detergent, determent, determinant, deterrent, detriment, development, deviant, different, diligent, diminishment, disagreement, disappointment, disarmament, disbarment, disbursement, discernment, discordant, discouragement, disenchantment, disenfranchisement, disengagement, disestablishment, disgruntlement, disillusionment, disinfectant, disinvestment, dismantlement, dismemberment, disobedient, dispersant, displacement, dissident, dissonant, distant, divergent, divestment, docent, dominant, dormant, easement, ebullient, efferent, effervescent, efficient, effluent, elegant, element, elephant, eloquent, embankment, embarrassment, embayment, embellishment, embezzlement, embodiment, emergent, emigrant, eminent, emplacement, employment, empowerment, enactment, encampment, enchantment, encirclement, encouragement, encroachment, endangerment, endearment, endorsement, endowment, enforcement, engagement, enhancement, enjoyment, enlargement, enlightenment, enlistment, enrichment, enrollment, enslavement, entanglement, entertainment, enticement, entitlement, entombment, entrant, entrapment, entrenchment, environment, equipment, errant, escapement, escarpment, establishment, estrangement, evanescent, evident, excitement, excrement, exigent, existent, exorbitant, expectant, expectorant, expedient, experiment, exponent, extant, extinguishment, extravagant, exuberant, exultant, Fabricant, fervent, figment, filament, flagrant, flamboyant, flippant, fluent, fluorescent, formant, fragment, fragrant, frequent, fulfillment, garment, garnishment, giant, government, grandiloquent, grandparent, harassment, hesitant, hydrant, ignorant, immanent, immigrant, imminent, impairment, impatient, impeachment, impediment, impertinent, implement, important, impotent, impoundment, impoverishment, impressment, imprisonment, improvement, imprudent, inadvertent, incandescent, incessant, incident, incipient, incitement, inclement, incoherent, incompetent, inconsistent, incontinent, inconvenient, increment, incumbent, indecent, independent, indictment, indifferent, indigent, indignant, inducement, indulgent, inefficient, infant, informant, infotainment, infrequent, infringement, ingredient, inhabitant, inherent, innocent, inpatient, insignificant, insistent, insolvent, installment, instant, instrument, insufficient, insurgent, integument, intelligent, intercurrent, interdependent, intermittent, internment, intersegment, intolerant, intransigent, invariant, investment, involvement, iridescent, irrelevant, irreverent, irritant, itinerant, judgement, judgment, latent, leant, lenient, lieutenant, ligament, litigant, lubricant, lucent, luminescent, luxuriant, magnificent, malignant, maltreatment, management, measurement, merchant, micromanagement, migrant, militant, miscreant, misgovernment, misjudgment, mismanagement, misstatement, mistreatment, moment, monument, mordant, movement, mutant, nascent, negligent, noncombatant, nonexistent, nongovernment, nonmanagement, nonpayment, nonresident, nourishment, nutrient, obedient, observant, obsolescent, occupant, odorant, ointment, omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient, operant, opponent, ornament, orpiment, outpatient, outplacement, overconfident, overpayment, overstatement, oxidant, pageant, parchment, parent, parliament, participant, patent, patient, pavement, payment, peasant, penchant, pendant, penitent, pennant, percipient, permanent, persistent, pertinent, pheasant, pigment, piquant, placement, pleasant, pliant, poignant, pollutant, postponement, postretirement, potent, preadolescent, precedent, predicament, predominant, preeminent, pregnant, prejudgment, prepayment, prescient, present, presentment, procurement, proficient, prominent, pronouncement, proponent, protestant, provident, prudent, prurient, pungent, punishment, pursuant, puzzlement, quadrant, quiescent, quotient, radiant, rampant, readjustment, reagent, realignment, reappointment, reapportionment, rearmament, rearrangement, reassessment, reassignment, recalcitrant, recent, recipient, recombinant, recruitment, recurrent, redeployment, redevelopment, redundant, reemployment, reenactment, refinement, refreshment, refrigerant, refurbishment, Regent, regiment, registrant, reimbursement, reinforcement, reinstatement, reinvestment, relevant, reliant, reluctant, reminiscent, remnant, repayment, repentant, replacement, replenishment, repugnant, requirement, resentment, resettlement, resident, resilient, resistant, resonant, resplendent, respondent, restatement, resultant, resurgent, retardant, reticent, retirement, retrenchment, reverent, rodent, rudiment, ruminant, sacrament, salient, seafront, sediment, segment, semipermanent, sentiment, Sequent, sergeant, serpent, servant, settlement, shipment, significant, solvent, stagnant, statement, strident, stringent, student, subcontinent, subsequent, subservient, sufficient, supergiant, superintendent, supplement, supplicant, suppressant, surfactant, tangent, temperament, tenant, tenement, testament, tolerant, torrent, tournament, transcendent, transient, translucent, transparent, treatment, trenchant, trident, triumphant, truant, tumescent, tyrant, undercurrent, underdevelopment, underemployment, undergarment, underpayment, understatement, unemployment, unimportant, unpleasant, unrepentant, urgent, vacant, vagrant, valiant, variant, vehement, verdant, vibrant, warrant, wonderment. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: unclutter. | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-l-n-r-t-t-u-u" | |
-2 letters: clutter, culture. | |
-3 letters: curule, cutler, cutlet, cutter, cuttle, lucent, lucern, nutlet, nutter, reluct, runlet, turtle, uncurl, uncute, untrue. | |
-4 letters: centu, cruel, cruet, culet, curet, cuter, eruct, lucre, lunet, recut, truce, tuner, ulcer, uncle, uncut, unlet, utter. | |
-5 letters: celt, cent, clue, cult, cunt, cure, curl, curn, curt, cute, ecru, lent, luce, lune, lunt, lure, lute. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-l-n-r-t-t-u-u" | |
+1 letter: unclutters. | |
+2 letters: truculently, uncluttered, unreluctant. | |
+3 letters: interculture, uncluttering. | |
+4 letters: intercultural, intercultures, unarticulated. | |
+5 letters: antitubercular, counterassault, counterculture, counterfactual, unacculturated. | |
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