aggressive
/əˈɡrɛsɪv
/adjective
1Ready or likely to attack or confront; characterized by or resulting from aggression: he’s very uncooperative and aggressive...
- He added that it was only a minority of drinkers causing the violent and aggressive behaviour.
- She had found it very difficult to manage his behaviour as he was aggressive and violent towards him.
- Anonymous comments are more likely to be aggressive, disruptive or even dishonest.
Synonyms
hostile, belligerent, bellicose, antagonistic, truculent;
pugnacious, combative, violent, macho;
confrontational, quarrelsome, argumentative
North American informal badass
warmongering, warlike, warring, hawkish, violent, combative, attacking;
jingoistic, militaristic, flag-waving, sabre-rattling;
offensive, expansionist, invasive, intrusive
informal gung-ho
1.1Behaving or done in a determined and forceful way: we needed more growth to pursue our aggressive acquisition strategy...
- I think Brian had an aggressive strategy and it really did pay off big time.
- With our very aggressive strategy, running sixth on the road was a disaster.
- P&G has made an aggressive push into the women's beauty business buying Clairol and Wella.
Synonyms
assertive, forceful, competitive, insistent, vigorous, energetic, dynamic, driving, bold, audacious, enterprising, go-ahead, zealous, pushing
informal pushy, in-your-face, feisty
Origin
Early 19th century: from Latin aggress- 'attacked' (from the verb aggredi) + -ive; compare with French agressif, -ive.
Rhymes
- modernistically
- modernity
- modernizable
- modernization
- modernization theory
- modernize
- modernizer
- modern jazz
- modern language
- modern Latin
- modernly
- modernness
- modern primitive
- Modern Standard Arabic
- modernus
- modest
- modestly
- modestness
- Modesto
- modesty
- modesty board
- modesty panel
- modesty piece
- modesty skirt
- modesty vest