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- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
aggressive \aggres"sive\, a. cf. f. agressif.
1. 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; as, an aggressive policy, war, person,
nation; an aggressive businessman; an aggressive
basketball player; he was aggressive and imperious in his
convictions; aggressive drivers. opposite of
unaggressive.
1913 webster + wordnet 1.5
no aggressive movement was made. --macaulay.
1913 webster
2. marked by self-confident ambition, vigorous
competitiveness, energy and initiative; as, an aggressive
young executive.
syn: enterprising, pushful, pushing, pushy
wordnet 1.5
3. med., biol. tending to grow or spread quickly; as, an
aggressive tumor. narrower terms: {invasive vs.
noninvasive --as
syn: fast-growingprenominal
wordnet 1.5
4. tending to initiate unprovoked attacks; initiating
unprovoked military action; eager to fight; as, aggressive
acts against another country.
syn: belligerent.
wordnet 1.5
note: narrower related terms: {bellicose, combative,
pugnacious, scrappy, truculent ; {hard-hitting,
high-pressure ; hostile used of attempts to buy or
take control of a business: "hostile takeover";
"hostile tender offer"; {predatory, rapacious,
raptorial, ravening, vulturine, vulturous . see also:
assertive, hostile, offensive.
wordnet 1.5 -- aggres"sively, adv. --
aggres"siveness, n.
1913 webster
see also:
unaggressive hostile aggres"sively aggres"siveness
- [2] : WordNet (r) 2.0
aggressive
adj 1: having or showing determination and energetic pursuit of
your ends; "an aggressive businessman"; "an aggressive
basketball player"; "he was aggressive and imperious;
positive in his convictions"; "aggressive drivers"
ant: unaggressive
2: marked by aggressive ambition and energy and initiative; "an
aggressive young exective"; "a pushful insurance agent";
"a pushing youth intent on getting on in the world" syn:
enterprising, pushful, pushing, pushy
3: tending to spread quickly; "an aggressive tumor" syn: fast-growinga
4: characteristic of an enemy or one eager to fight;
"aggressive acts against another country"; "a belligerent
tone" syn: belligerent
see also:
unaggressive enterprising pushful pushing pushy fast-growinga
belligerent
- [3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
141 moby thesaurus words for "aggressive":
abrupt, active, acute, adventuresome, adventurous, ambitious,
animated, antagonistic, assertive, battling, bearish, beastly,
bellicose, belligerent, bickering, bloodthirsty, bloody,
bloody-minded, bluff, blunt, bold, brash, brisk, brusque, cavalier,
chauvinist, chauvinistic, churlish, combative, contentious, crusty,
curt, disputatious, divisive, domineering, driving, dynamic, enemy,
energetic, enterprising, enthusiastic, eristic, factional,
factious, ferocious, fierce, fighting, forceful, forcible, forward,
full of fight, full of pep, go-ahead, go-go, gruff, hard-hitting,
harsh, hawkish, hearty, hostile, hustling, imperious, impetuous,
incisive, inimical, intense, irascible, irritable, jingo, jingoish,
jingoist, jingoistic, keen, kinetic, litigious, lively, living,
lusty, martial, masterful, mettlesome, militant, militaristic,
military, offensive, on the offensive, partisan, peppy, polarizing,
polemic, pugnacious, pushful, pushing, pushy, quarrelsome, robust,
rough, saber-rattling, sanguinary, sanguineous, savage, scrappy,
self-assertive, severe, sharp, short, shrewish, smacking, snappy,
snippy, soldierlike, soldierly, spanking, spirited, strenuous,
strong, surly, take-charge, take-over, tough, trenchant,
trigger-happy, truculent, unfriendly, unpacific, unpeaceable,
unpeaceful, up-and-coming, venturesome, venturous, vibrant,
vigorous, vivacious, vivid, warlike, warmongering, warring,
wrangling, zestful, zesty, zippy
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