Aggressive Synonyms and Antonyms

ə-grĕsĭv
Combative
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. belligerent
  2. combative
  3. hostile
  4. contentious
  5. militant
  6. bellicose
  7. martial
  8. pugnacious
  9. warlike
  10. truculent
  11. scrappy
  12. assertive
  13. encroaching
  14. attacking
  15. threatening
  16. advancing
  17. offensive
  18. antagonistic
  19. disruptive
  20. ambitious
  21. intrusive
  22. barbaric
  23. destructive
  24. warmongering
  25. hawkish
  26. onrushing
  27. quarrelsome
  28. fast-growing
  29. intruding
  30. enterprising
  31. battering
  32. rapacious
  33. flip
  34. invading
  35. gladiatorial
  36. on the offensive
  37. guilty of aggression
  38. up-in-arms
  39. intense
  40. on-the-warpath
  41. feisty
  42. trigger-happy
  43. provocative
  44. pugilistic
  45. self-asserting
  46. taurine
  47. zealous
  48. strong-growing
Antonyms:
  1. peaceful
  2. peace-loving
  3. dovish

Words Related to Aggressive

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Aggressive Sentence Examples

  • True to his word, he was aggressive without hurting her.

  • But in spite of his aggressive behavior, she felt safe with him.

  • After the club of the Pantheon was closed by Bonaparte, on the 27th of February 1796, his aggressive activity redoubled.

  • Methodism has always been aggressive, and her children on emigrating have taken with them their evangelistic methods.

  • He wondered how much Miss Mulligan knew about the aggressive Mrs. Shipton.

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