self-assertive
adjective
Synonyms
- aggressive
- ambitious
- assertive
- enterprising
- fierce
- go-getting
- high-pressure
- in-your-face
- militant
- pushy
- self-asserting
Word History
1849, in the meaning defined above
self-assertive
adjective
Synonyms & Similar Words
- aggressive
- ambitious
- assertive
- fierce
- adventurous
- militant
- vigorous
- energetic
- pushy
- confident
- self-asserting
- enterprising
- daring
- pugnacious
- in-your-face
- belligerent
- go-getting
- warlike
- bellicose
- combative
- dynamic
- high-pressure
- quarrelsome
- bold
- truculent
- determined
- domineering
- argumentative
- disputatious
- impudent
- emphatic
- cocky
- insolent
- bumptious
- contentious
- unapologetic
- hyperaggressive
- feisty
- adventuresome
- obtrusive
- venturous
- brassy
- gladiatorial
- overconfident
- emboldened
- strenuous
- cocksure
- hustling
- overambitious
- venturesome
- gutsy
- brash
- cheeky
- discordant
- gung ho
- dashing
- audacious
- trigger-happy
- dominating
- presumptuous
- unsubdued
- overbearing
- unyielding
- scrappy
- imperious
- bare-knuckles
- bare-knuckled
- magisterial
- forward
- bare-knuckle
- lordly
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- unassertive
- unaggressive
- unambitious
- easygoing
- nonassertive
- submissive
- docile
- deferential
- relaxed
- acquiescent
- ambitionless
- tractable
- amenable
- compliant
- timid
- passive
- humble
- unenterprising
- meek
- bashful
- modest
- subdued
- diffident
- yielding
- quiet
- resigned
- mild
- shy
- unobtrusive
- laid-back
- demure
- shrinking
- low-pressure
- reserved
- mousy
- subservient
- obsequious
- grovelling
- lowly
- servile
- retiring
- slavish
- mousey
- cringing
- cowering
- groveling
- overmodest
Synonyms & Similar Words
- arrogant
- superior
- domineering
- cavalier
- bumptious
- dominant
- supercilious
- haughty
- uppity
- important
- assumptive
- uppish
- pretentious
- pompous
- imperious
- self-asserting
- presumptuous
- authoritarian
- dominating
- masterful
- chesty
- smug
- sniffy
- huffy
- peremptory
- presuming
- proud
- toplofty
- high-and-mighty
- bossy
- high-handed
- overweening
- impudent
- huffish
- hifalutin
- boastful
- patronizing
- lordly
- toploftical
- highfalutin
- stiff-necked
- condescending
- lofty
- swaggering
- cocky
- egocentric
- saucy
- conceited
- narcissistic
- high-hat
- snobbish
- egotistic
- egoistic
- vainglorious
- bombastic
- disdainful
- magisterial
- pontifical
- snooty
- uninhibited
- hubristic
- braggart
- extroverted
- snobby
- vain
- egoistical
- egotistical
- pontificating
- impertinent
- blusterous
- complacent
- prideful
- bragging
- self-conceited
- self-complacent
- blustery
- self-centered
- brash
- self-satisfied
- immodest
- self-loving
- self-flattering
- braggy
- extraverted
- stuck-up
- unreserved
- self-promoting
- self-pleased
- self-affected
- self-applauding
- forward
- orgulous
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- humble
- modest
- timid
- unpretentious
- bashful
- subdued
- diffident
- lowly
- introverted
- shy
- passive
- sheepish
- demure
- unassertive
- submissive
- meek
- mousy
- deferential
- unaggressive
- acquiescent
- shrinking
- unarrogant
- unassuming
- unobtrusive
- compliant
- self-critical
- self-doubting
- quiet
- yielding
- mousey
- overmodest
- reserved
- cringing
- cowering
- retiring
Synonym Chooser
Some common synonyms of self-assertive are aggressive, assertive, and militant. While all these words mean "obtrusively energetic especially in pursuing particular goals," self-assertive connotes forwardness or brash self-confidence.
The words aggressive and self-assertive can be used in similar contexts, but aggressive implies a disposition to dominate often in disregard of others' rights or in determined and energetic pursuit of one's ends.
In some situations, the words assertive and self-assertive are roughly equivalent. However, assertive suggests bold self-confidence in expression of opinion.
The synonyms militant and self-assertive are sometimes interchangeable, but militant also implies a fighting disposition but suggests not self-seeking but devotion to a cause, movement, or principle.