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aggressive

/əˈɡɹɛs.ɪv/ US

Rhymes with -ɛsɪv

adjective more aggressive · most aggressive

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
Similar: bare-knuckle
of an entity Tends to attack the player while unprovoked. Zombies are aggressive once you are near them.
Similar: bare-knuckle
especially, of a method or process Exploiting every opportunity to be applied. This paper describes how aggressive loop unrolling is done in a retargetable optimizing compiler.
Of a tumor or disease, that spreads quickly or extensively; virulent; malignant.
Involving high risk for potentially high reward. an aggressive stock; an aggressive portfolio
US Female but having a male or masculine gender presentation; butch. For quotations using this term, see Citations:aggressive.

Opposite: passive

noun aggressives

One who is aggressive.
US 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

Closest in meaning: pugnacious, combative, pushful, invasive, battleful, contentious, pushy, obstreperous, competitive, scrappy, truculent, hostile, enterprising, hard-hitting, pushing, bellicose

adjective

Opposite: passive

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adj tending or disposed to aggress

Español	agresivo
한국어	공격적인 gonggyeokjeog-in, 침략적인 chimnyakjeog-in
日本語	侵略的な shinryakuteki na, 攻撃的な kōgekiteki na
中文	好鬥 /好斗 hàodòu, 好戰的 /好战的 hàozhàn de, 侵略的 qīnlüè de, 愛尋釁的 /爱寻衅的 ài xúnxìn de
हिन्दी	आक्रमणकारक ākramaṇkārak, जंगी jaṅgī, धक्कामार dhakkāmār, दंगली daṅglī, आक्रामक ākrāmak
Português	agressivo
Français	agressif
Deutsch	aggressiv, angriffslustig
Italiano	aggressivo
Ελληνικά	επιθετικός epithetikós
Română	agresiv
Русский	агресси́вный agressívnyj, вои́нственный voínstvennyj
Tiếng Việt	xâm lược
العربية	عُدْوَانِيّ ʕudwāniyy, هُجُومِيّ hujūmiyy
עברית	מתגרה

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@misc{aggressive_2026,
  title = {aggressive},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/aggressive},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}