aggressive

• absolute
• acidic
• adventuresome
• adventurous
• agonistic
• ambitious
• antagonistic
• argumentative
• arresting
• assaultive
• assertive
• audacious
• bare-knuckle
• bare-knuckled
• bare-knuckles
• battling
• bearish
• bellicose
• belligerent
• bilious
• bold
• brash
• brassy
• brawly
• bristly
• bumptious
• categoric
• categorical
• cheeky
• chippy
• choleric
• clear
• cocksure
• cocky
• combative
• compelling
• confident
• confrontational
• conspicuous
• contentious
• crabby
• cranky
• cross
• daring
• dashing
• decided
• determined
• disagreeable
• discordant
• disputatious
• dominating
• domineering
• dynamic
• dyspeptic
• emboldened
• emphatic
• energetic
• enterprising
• feisty
• fierce
• fighting
• forceful
• forward
• fractious
• fretful
• full-blooded
• gladiatorial
• go-getting
• grouchy
• grumpy
• gung ho
• gutsy
• high-pressure
• hostile
• hot-tempered
• huffy
• hustling
• hyperaggressive
• ill-humored
• ill-natured
• ill-tempered
• impelling
• imperious
• impudent
• in-your-face
• insistent
• insolent
• irascible
• irritable
• lordly
• magisterial
• marked
• militant
• muscular
• noticeable
• obtrusive
• on the warpath
• ornery
• overambitious
• overbearing
• overconfident
• peevish
• pettish
• petulant
• plain
• pointed
• presumptuous
• prickly
• pugnacious
• pushy
• quarrelsome
• querulous
• resounding
• rude
• savage
• scrappy
• self-asserting
• self-assertive
• snappish
• snappy
• strenuous
• striking
• stroppy
• surly
• testy
• touchy
• trigger-happy
• truculent
• ugly
• unambiguous
• unapologetic
• unequivocal
• unsubdued
• unyielding
• vehement
• venturesome
• venturous
• vicious
• vigorous
• violent
• warlike
• warring
• waspish

• acquiescent
• affable
• ambiguous
• ambitionless
• amenable
• amiable
• amicable
• anti-imperialist
• antimilitarist
• bashful
• benevolent
• benign
• calm
• complaisant
• compliant
• conciliatory
• cordial
• cowering
• cringing
• deferential
• demure
• diffident
• docile
• easygoing
• equivocal
• friendly
• genial
• gentle
• good-natured
• good-tempered
• gracious
• groveling
• grovelling
• guarded
• halting
• hesitant
• humble
• ingratiating
• kindhearted
• kindly
• laid-back
• low-pressure
• lowly
• meek
• mild
• modest
• mousey
• mousy
• nonaggressive
• nonassertive
• nonbelligerent
• nonemphatic
• obliging
• obsequious
• overmodest
• pacific
• passive
• peaceable
• peaceful
• pleasant
• quiet
• relaxed
• reserved
• resigned
• retiring
• serene
• servile
• shrinking
• shy
• slavish
• sociable
• subdued
• submissive
• subservient
• timid
• tractable
• tranquil
• unaggressive
• unambitious
• unassertive
• unbelligerent
• uncombative
• uncompelling
• uncontentious
• understated
• unemphatic
• unenterprising
• unobtrusive
• unwarlike
• weak
• wishy-washy
• yielding

• adjective
  1. Characterized by aggression; unjustly attacking; prone to behave in a way that involves attacking or arguing.
  2. Of heuristics, source code optimization techniques, etc.: exploiting every opportunity to be applied.
  3. (of a tumour or disease) That spreads quickly or extensively; virulent; malignant.

• The dog became aggressive when strangers approached.
• She took an aggressive approach to completing the project ahead of schedule.
• His aggressive behavior in meetings often intimidates others.
• The company launched an aggressive marketing campaign.
• He is very aggressive in pursuing his goals and never gives up easily.

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