English-Portuguese translations for truculent

• truculento
  Estou confiante em que o Conselho Europeu seguirá o espírito da Constituição, que exige um terço dos Estados-Membros para accionar esse mecanismo e não apenas um único membro truculento.I trust that the European Council will follow the spirit of the Constitution, which requires a third of Member States to trigger such a mechanism and not simply a single truculent member.

Definition of truculent

• Cruel or savage
• Deadly or destructive
• Eager or quick to argue, fight or start a conflict

Synonyms

• barbarous
• cruel
• ferocious
• fierce
• savage
• deadly
• destructive
• defiant
• inflexible
• stubborn
• uncompromising
• unyielding

Examples

• The truculent soldiers gave us a steely-eyed stare.

Related words

• truculence
• truculency
• truculently