Difference between Aggressive and Pugnacious

AGGRESSIVE vs PUGNACIOUS: ADJECTIVE

Characteristic of an enemy or one eager to fight
Having or showing determination and energetic pursuit of your ends
Marked by aggressive ambition and energy and initiative
Characterized by aggression.
Inclined to behave in an actively hostile fashion.
Assertive, bold, and energetic.
Of or relating to an investment or approach to investing that seeks above-average returns by taking above-average risks.
Fast growing; tending to spread quickly and invade.
Characterized by or inclined toward vigorous or intensive medical treatment.
Intense or harsh, as in color.
Tending or disposed to aggress; having or showing determination and energetic pursuit of one's own ends at the expense of others or mindless of others' needs or desires; characterized by aggression; making assaults; unjustly attacking. Opposite of unaggressive.
Marked by self-confident ambition, competitiveness, energy and initiative.
Tending or disposed to aggress; characterized by aggression; making assaults; unjustly attacking.
Tending to spread quickly

Positive in his convictions"
Synonyms Aggressive, Offensive. Offensive is the direct opposite to defensive. Offensive warfare is that in which one is quick to give battle, as opportunity offers or can be made, and presses upon the enemy. Aggressive warfare is only secondarily of this sort; primarily it is a warfare prompted by the spirit of encroachment, the desire of conquest, plunder, etc. A war that is thus aggressive is naturally offensive at first, but may lose that character by the vigor of the resistance made; it then ceases to be thought of as aggressive. Hence aggressive has come to be often synonymous with offensive.
Characterized by aggression; tending to aggress; prone to begin a quarrel; making the first attack; offensive, as opposed to defensive: as, the minister pursued an aggressive foreign policy.

Synonyms Contentious.
Disposed to fight; quarrelsome; given to fighting: as, a pugnacious fellow; a pugnacious disposition.

Invasive, Truculent, Rapacious, Obstreperous, Bellicose, Scrappy, Pugnacious, Ambitious, Hostile, Competitive, Pushy, Predatory, Belligerent, Combative, Assertive

Cantankerous, Garrulous, Bellicose, Belligerent, Confrontational, Irascible, Truculent, Brash, Feisty, Combative, Hard bitten, Hard boiled, Rough, Tough, Aggressive

Invasive, Truculent, Rapacious, Obstreperous, Bellicose, Scrappy, Pugnacious, Ambitious, Hostile, Competitive, Pushy, Predatory, Belligerent, Combative, Assertive

Cantankerous, Garrulous, Bellicose, Belligerent, Confrontational, Irascible, Truculent, Brash, Feisty, Combative, Hard boiled, Hard bitten, Rough, Tough, Aggressive

TEESEIZUREOF AUSTRIA The invasion of Austria was a premeditated aggressive step in furthering the plm to wage aggressive wars against other countries.
Acorns investors can choose among Conservative, Moderately Conservative, Moderate, Moderately Aggressive, and Aggressive portfolios.
So it looks like I am being sued by a very aggressive OC and a very aggressive law firm.
Desensitization to Media Violence: Links With Habitual Media Violence Exposure, Aggressive Cognitions, and Aggressive Behavior.
The aggressive child might also be placed ina groupwith larger children who through imitation andpeergroup pressure will modify the aggressive behavior.
The law does not reward people who are aggressive only for the sake of being aggressive.
Cisco IOS software will respond in aggressive mode to an IKE peer that initiates aggressive mode.
Teachers rated them as more relationally aggressive, more physically aggressive, and less helpful.
When staff members use aggressive techniques with children, they and their families learn that aggressive responses to behavior are OK.
Naturalistic studies of aggressive behavior: Aggressive stimuli, victim visibility, and horn honking.

Iranian diplomats characterized Rafighdoost as a restraint on the more pugnacious Rezai.
They also inspire a degree of passion that verges on the pugnacious.
For whatever reason being pugnacious or belligerent is what he does first.
He unhooked her bra and fastened his hot, making pugnacious gestures.
He was ingratiating and pugnacious by turns, but prosecutor Yocum prevailed.
Pugnacious bravos fill the city, frequently dueling to display their skill.
The definition of pugnacious is eager to fight or disagree.
His pugnacious conduct even rubbed fellow Republicans the wrong way.
Scotland produced players of enormous talent and pugnacious mettle.
Braddock, adopting a pugnacious attitude and quite composed.