PUGILISTIC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pugilistic mean? 

• PUGILISTIC (adjective)
  The adjective PUGILISTIC has 1 sense:

1. of or relating to pugilism or pugilists

  Familiarity information: PUGILISTIC used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PUGILISTIC (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to pugilism or pugilists

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Context example:

a pugilistic career

Pertainym:

pugilism (fighting with the fists)

pugilist (someone who fights with his fists for sport)

Derivation:

pugilism (fighting with the fists)

 Context examples 

The white wooden posts, each with the P.C. of the pugilistic club printed upon it, were so fixed as to leave a square of 24 feet within the roped enclosure.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)