The Collaborative International Dictionary
Aggressive \Ag*gres"sive\, a. [Cf. F. agressif.]
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Tending or disposed to aggress; having or showing determination and energetic pursuit of one's own ends at the expense of others or mindless of others' needs or desires; characterized by aggression; making assaults; unjustly attacking; as, an aggressive policy, war, person, nation; an aggressive businessman; an aggressive basketball player; he was aggressive and imperious in his convictions; aggressive drivers. Opposite of unaggressive.
No aggressive movement was made.
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marked by self-confident ambition, competitiveness, energy and initiative; as, an aggressive young executive.
Syn: enterprising, pushful, pushing, pushy
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1 (Med., Biol.) tending to spread quickly an aggressive tumor [Narrower terms: invasive (vs. noninvasive) ]
Syn: fast-growing(prenominal)
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characteristic of an enemy or one eager to fight aggressive acts against another country
Syn: belligerent
Note: Narrower related terms: {bellicose, combative, pugnacious, scrappy, truculent ; {hard-hitting, high-pressure ; {hostile (used of attempts to buy or take control of a business: "hostile takeover"; "hostile tender offer"); predatory, rapacious, raptorial, ravening, vulturine, vulturous . See also: assertive, hostile, offensive. [WordNet 1.5] -- {Ag*gres"sive*ly, adv. -- Ag*gres"sive*ness, n.
Wiktionary
adv. In an aggressive manner.
WordNet
adv. in an aggressive manner; "she was being sharply questioned" [syn: sharply]
Usage examples of "aggressively".
Israeli governments were virtually inseparable and that Israel had aggressively been helping Iran throughout the war.
They argue that Saddam respects deterrence and therefore is highly unlikely to use nuclear weapons or to act aggressively in the belief that his nuclear weapons would shield him from an American or Israeli response.
In particular, would he act aggressively in the mistaken belief that his nuclear weapons would deter an American or Israeli nuclear response?
We might not have enough forces to aggressively seek out and suppress Iraqi artillery and multiple-rocket launchers that Iraq would use to fire chemical and possibly biological weapons at our troops.
France, are not willing to make an end of the war, I am determined to act vigorously and aggressively without great delay .
Certainly, if a female manager or leader is seen crying and emotionally disabled in a situation that might be handled aggressively by a strong male, she will lose prestige in the eyes of many people.
Holding these pronounced views, aggressively loyal in every thought and action, General Pope was naturally in antagonism with the policy of the President.
It was, on the contrary, aggressively resolved to assert the rights and the interests of the United States against any suspicion of European aggrandizement.
The ghost of slavery had been banished from our national banquet: and, relieved of this terror, the American people began to show, more aggressively than ever before, their ability to provide and to consume a bountiful feast.
He is, indeed, far more aggressively preoccupied with his class, as contrasted with his individual interests, than are his employers.
On the other hand, it will not only refuse to recognize a union whose rules and methods are inimical to the public economic interest, but it will aggressively and relentlessly fight such unions.
Although the Kin sha were not native to Avion, they had been welcomed and promoted aggressively by the Central Consortium.
Her lower jaw jutted forward aggressively, with protrusive cuspids on either side.
Instead of simply deciding the controversy, the Supreme Court handed down an aggressively activist, judicially supremacist, pro-slavery decision.
Motors and cycles he treated with tolerant disregard, but pigs, wheelbarrows, piles of stones by the roadside, perambulators in a village street, gates painted too aggressively white, and sometimes, but not always, the newer kind of beehives, turned him aside from his tracks in vivid imitation of the zigzag course of forked lightning.