English > aggressive: 3 senses > adjective 1| Meaning | Having or showing determination and energetic / energetic pursuit of your ends. |
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| Examples | - "an aggressive businessman"
- "an aggressive basketball player"
- "he was aggressive and imperious
- "aggressive drivers"
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| Narrower | battleful, bellicose, combative | Having or showing a ready disposition to fight |
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| competitive, militant | showing a fighting disposition |
| hard-hitting, high-pressure | aggressively and persistently persuasive |
| hostile | unsolicited and resisted by the management of the target company (used of attempts to buy or take control of a business) |
| in-your-face | blatantly aggressive |
| obstreperous | boisterously and noisily aggressive |
| predatory, rapacious, raptorial, ravening, vulturine, vulturous | Living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey |
| pugnacious, rough | Ready and able to resort to force or violence |
| scrappy | Full of fighting spirit |
| truculent | defiantly aggressive |
| See also | assertive, self-asserting, self-assertive | aggressively self-assured |
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| hostile | Characterized by enmity / enmity or ill ... / ill will |
| offensive | For the purpose of attack / attack rather than defense |
| Opposite | unaggressive, nonaggressive | not aggressive |
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| Spanish | agresivo |
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| Catalan | agressiu |
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| Nouns | aggressiveness | the quality of being bold and enterprising |
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| Adverbs | aggressively | in an aggressive manner |
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