Another word for aggressive
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Adjective
Inclined to act in a hostile way
- Ready and willing to fight; esp., vigorous or aggressive in supporting or promoting a cause
- Fighting or warring.
- Having a combative character; aggressive, especially in the service of a cause:
- Feeling or showing enmity or ill will:
- Of, relating to, or characteristic of an enemy:
- Being in opposition; opposed:
- Involving or causing contention; controversial:
- Of or marked by contention
- Provoking or likely to provoke controversy
- Given to fighting; disposed to engage in combat; pugnacious.
- Fond of fighting or struggling; ready or eager to fight; pugnacious
- Eager or disposed to fight.
- At war; designating or of a state recognized under international law as being engaged in a war
- Of, pertaining to, or engaged in warfare.
- Inclined or eager to fight; hostile or aggressive.
Marked by boldness and assertiveness
- Inclined to bold or confident assertion; aggressively self-assured.
- Characterized by assertion; persistently, forcefully, or boldly positive or confident
- Boldly self-assured; confident without being aggressive
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Another word for aggressive
Modifier
Energetic and forceful
Antonyms:Combative
Synonym Study
- Pushing is applied derogatorily to a forwardness of personality that manifests itself in officiousness or rudeness
- Assertive emphasizes self-confidence and a persistent determination to express oneself or one's opinions
- Militant implies a vigorous, unrelenting espousal of a cause, movement, etc. and rarely suggests the furthering of one's own ends
- Aggressive implies a bold and energetic pursuit of one's ends, connoting, in derogatory usage, a ruthless desire to dominate and, in a favorable sense, enterprise or initiative
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