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truculence

/ˈtrʌk.jə.ləns/

truculence noun: the state of being truculent; eagerness to fight; ferocity.

Noun

truculence (usually uncountable, plural truculences)

  1. (usually) The state of being truculent; eagerness to fight; ferocity.
    • To these provincial autocrats, before whom the peaceable population of all classes had been accustomed to tremble, the reserve of that English-looking engineer caused an uneasiness which swung to and fro between cringing and truculence.1904 January 29 – October 7, Joseph Conrad, chapter 7, in Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard, London; New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers […], published 1904, →OCLC
    • He was huge in all that he did, and his benevolence was even more overpowering than his truculence.1929, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Disintegration Machine

truculence meaning in Tamil and Malayalam

truculence in Tamil

கொடுமுரட்டாட்சி

truculence in Malayalam

കാട്ടാളത്തം, ക്രൂരത

Synonyms of truculence

All synonyms of truculence

Forms of truculence

pluraltruculences
alternative formtruculency

Origin of truculence

From French truculence, from Latin truculentia.

Questions about truculence

What does truculence mean?
Truculence means the state of being truculent; eagerness to fight; ferocity.
What is truculence in Tamil?
Truculence in Tamil is கொடுமுரட்டாட்சி. See Truculence meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is truculence?
Truculence is a noun.
How do you pronounce truculence?
Truculence is pronounced /ˈtrʌk.jə.ləns/ (US).
What is the plural of truculence?
The plural of truculence is truculences.

Words near truculence in the dictionary

  1. truckwits
  2. trucky
  3. truckyard
  4. truckyards
  5. Truco
  6. truculence
  7. truculences
  8. truculencies
  9. truculency
  10. truculent
  11. truculently

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Adapted from Wiktionary: truculence (page history and authors); truculence (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); truculence (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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