aggressive
Adjective
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Having or showing determination and energetic pursuit of your ends (synset 300082711)
"an aggressive businessman"; "an aggressive basketball player"; "he was aggressive and imperious; positive in his convictions"; "aggressive drivers"also:
- assertive, self-asserting, self-assertive - aggressively self-assured
- hostile - characterized by enmity or ill will
- offensive - for the purpose of attack rather than defense
similar to:- battleful, bellicose, combative - having or showing a ready disposition to fight
- competitive, militant - showing a fighting disposition
- hard-hitting, high-pressure - aggressively and persistently persuasive
- hostile - unsolicited and resisted by the management of the target company (used of attempts to buy or take control of a business)
- in-your-face - blatantly aggressive
- obstreperous - boisterously and noisily aggressive
- predatory, rapacious, raptorial, ravening, vulturine, vulturous - living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey
- pugnacious, rough - ready and able to resort to force or violence
- scrappy - full of fighting spirit
- truculent - defiantly aggressive
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Tending to spread quickly (synset 301358991)
"an aggressive tumor"similar to: invasive - marked by a tendency to spread especially into healthy tissuesame as: fast-growing, strong-growing
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Characteristic of an enemy or one eager to fight (synset 301247720)
"aggressive acts against another country"; "a belligerent tone"similar to: hostile - characterized by enmity or ill willsame as: belligerent
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