Truculent vs Obstreperous - What's the difference?
truculent | obstreperous |
cruel or savage
Deadly or destructive.
Defiant or uncompromising.
Eager or quick to argue, fight or start a conflict.
* 1992 , (Joel Feinberg), “
* 2010 , Member, in Esquire Magazine "The Man Who Killed Osama bin Laden..."[http://www.esquire.com/features/man-who-shot-osama-bin-laden-0313?src=rss]
Attended by, or making, a loud and tumultuous noise; boisterous.
* 1809 , , Knickerbocker's History of New York , ch. 7:
* 1855 , , "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came":
* 1918 , , On the Stairs , ch. 3:
Stubbornly defiant; disobedient; resistant to authority or control, whether in a noisy manner or not.
* 1827 , , The Journal of Sir Walter Scott , October 1827:
* 1903 , , "A Sandshore Wooing" in Short Stories: 1902-1903 :
* 1915 , , The Gray Dawn , ch. 70:
As adjectives the difference between truculent and obstreperous
is that truculent is cruel or savage while obstreperous is attended by, or making, a loud and tumultuous noise; boisterous.truculent
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- When we were touring on a riverboat near Dandong, the truculent North Korean soldiers from the other side of the river gave us a steely-eyed death stare.
The Social Importance of Moral Rights” in (Philosophical Perspectives) VI (Ethics, 1992), page 195:
- It is an important source of the value of moral rights then that?—?speaking very generally?—?they dispose people with opposed interests to be reasonable rather than arrogant and truculent .
- (Refering to women in Bin Laden's compound) "These bitches is getting truculent ".
Quotations
* 1847 , , , ch VI, *: In her turn, Helen Burns asked me to explain, and I proceeded forthwith to pour out, in my own way, the tale of my sufferings and resentments. Bitter and truculent when excited, I spoke as I felt, without reserve or softening. * 1860-1861 , (Charles Dickens), , ch XLVI, *: She really was a most charming girl, and might have passed for a captive fairy, whom that truculent Ogre, Old Barley, had pressed into his service. * 1895 , , , ch 10, *: Most of them were little dramatic situations, crucial dialogues, the return of Mr. Hoopdriver to his native village, for instance, in a well-cut holiday suit and natty gloves, the unheard asides of the rival neighbours, the delight of the old 'mater,' the intelligence—"A ten-pound rise all at once from Antrobus, mater. Whad d'yer think of that?" or again, the first whispering of love, dainty and witty and tender, to the girl he served a few days ago with sateen, or a gallant rescue of generalised beauty in distress from truculent insult or ravening dog. * 1914 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), , ch 10, *: If he came too close to a she with a young baby, the former would bare her great fighting fangs and growl ominously, and occasionally a truculent young bull would snarl a warning if Tarzan approached while the former was eating. * 1922 ,(Rafael Sabatini), , ch XVI, *: Cahusac appeared to be having it all his own way, and he raised his harsh, querulous voice so that all might hear his truculent denunciation. * 1925 , (Richard Henry Tawney), "Introduction", to (Thomas Wilson) A discourse upon usury by way of dialogue and orations: for the better variety and more delight of all those that shall read this treatise (1572); Classics of social and political science [Page 2]*: Whatever his prejudices — and his book shows that they were tough — the most truculent of self-made capitalists could not have criticised him as a child in matters of finance. He had tried commercial cases, negotiated commercial treaties, ...
Synonyms
* (cruel or savage): barbarous, cruel, ferocious, fierce, savage * (deadly or destructive): deadly, destructive * (defiant or uncompromising): defiant, inflexible, stubborn, uncompromising, unyielding * belligerentSee also
* belligerentAnagrams
* ----obstreperous
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- [O]n a clear still summer evening you may hear from the battery of New York the obstreperous peals of broad-mouthed laughter of the Dutch negroes at Communipaw.
- . . . my hope
- Dwindled into a ghost not fit to cope
- With that obstreperous joy success would bring
- He developed an obstreperous baritone . . . and he made himself rather preponderant, whether he happened to know the song or not.
- [W]e came to Whittingham. Thence to Newcastle, where an obstreperous horse retarded us for an hour at least.
- My dress was draggled, my hat had slipped back, and the kinks and curls of my obstreperous hair were something awful.
- They reviled the committee collectively and singly; bragged that they would shoot Coleman, Truett, Durkee, and some others at sight; flourished weapons, and otherwise became so publicly and noisily obstreperous that the committee decided they needed a lesson.