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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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