Aggressive
[ə'gresɪv] or [ə'ɡrɛsɪv]
Definition
(adj.) 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' .
(adj.) characteristic of an enemy or one eager to fight; 'aggressive acts against another country'; 'a belligerent tone' .
(adj.) tending to spread quickly; 'an aggressive tumor' .
Inputed by Josiah--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Tending or disposed to aggress; characterized by aggression; making assaults; unjustly attacking; as, an aggressive policy, war, person, nation.
Editor: Zeke
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Attacking, assaulting, assailing, assailant, invading, offensive.
Inputed by Elisabeth
Examples
- These were the opening acts of an active and aggressive career. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Union men became rampant, aggressive, and, if you will, intolerant. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- This new Sassanid Empire immediately became aggressive, and under Sapor I, the son and successor of Ardashir, took Antioch. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- German imperialism, with its organized grip upon education and its close alliance with an aggressive commercialism, was beaten and finished. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The mudfish would have seemed then a poor refugee from the too crowded and aggressive life of the sea. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- His personality was strong, aggressive, dominating. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Together they were strong enough to turn the tables upon the enemy and themselves become aggressive. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- It is not ordinarily to be employed in aggressive movements. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- For Innocent III was one of the great persecuting Popes, an able, grasping, and aggressive man. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The tone was neither aggressive nor conciliatory: it revealed nothing of the speaker's errand. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- But by the middle of the fourth century the Hunnish people to the east were becoming aggressive again. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- And it added to her misfortunes that some of her elected kings had been brilliant and aggressive rulers. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Their wars became less and less the holy war of freedom, and more and more like the aggressive wars of the ancient régime. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Why then did not the United States develop armaments and an aggressive policy? H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Aggressive languages must bring gifts, and the gifts of Greek were incomparably greater than the gifts of Latin. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Villard was a very aggressive man with big ideas, but I could never quite understand him. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- He snatched at a premature popularity by outdoing his father's patriotic and aggressive attitudes. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Any state obsessed by traditions of an aggressive foreign policy will be difficult to assimilate into a world combination. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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