aggressive

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/əˈɡɹɛs.ɪv/

adj 5noun 2

Collocations

(adj.) likely to fight/argue with other people

VERBS

be, feel, look, seem, sound | become, get

make sb

Losing the game made the coach aggressive toward the referee during the second half.

ADV

extremely, particularly, really, very | increasingly | quite, rather

openly

The players began openly aggressive after the referee made a controversial decision.

PREP

towards

My teenager became aggressive towards her younger brother during their argument.

(adj.) behaving in a determined way

VERBS

ADV

extremely, highly, very

The player received a red card for extremely aggressive behavior during the match.

fairly, somewhat

Definitions

adj

Characterized by aggression; highly combative; prone to behave in a way that involves attacking (especially if unjustly) or arguing.

an aggressive policy, war, person, nation

When a new aggressive fish is added to an aquarium with an already-established, territorial fish, the established fish will probably fight to protect its territory (the whole tank).

Exploiting every opportunity to be applied.

This paper describes how aggressive loop unrolling is done in a retargetable optimizing compiler.

Since the most aggressive type of optimization a program can be subjected to is parallelization, understanding a program before attempting to parallelize it is a very important step.

That spreads quickly or extensively; virulent; malignant.

Involving high risk for potentially high reward.

an aggressive stock; an aggressive portfolio

Female but having a male or masculine gender presentation; butch.

For quotations using this term, see Citations:aggressive.

noun

One who is aggressive.

A (Black) woman who presents as masculine; a butch.

[...]; usually the femme is the ho [at the costume party], and the butch/aggressive is the pimp. [...] An aggressive is a masculine-identified woman like the category of butch; aggressive is the contemporary term among younger masculine-identified women.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

adjective — characteristic of an enemy or one eager to fight

belligerent

adjective — tending to spread quickly

strong-growing

Antonyms

unaggressive
nonaggressive

Idioms & Phrases

Example Bank

an aggressive policy, war, person, nation

Wiktionary

When a new aggressive fish is added to an aquarium with an already-established, territorial fish, the established fish will probably fight to protect its territory (the whole tank).

Wiktionary

This highly-aggressive approach had results, but briefly caused a major uproar in parts of the United States, which was mitigated by the Webster–Ashburton Treaty in 1842, which formalised the U.S. Nav

Wiktionary

The aggressive salesman urged me to sign the contract right away.

Tatoeba · #19222

The aggressive man urged me to sign the contract.

Tatoeba · #49463

Usage Notes

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In some senses, aggressive is marked as US. Watch for register when choosing this word.

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