Crossword clues for aggressiveness
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
n. 1 (context uncountable English) The state or quality of being aggressive. 2 (context countable English) The result or product of being aggressive.
WordNet
n. the quality of being bold and enterprising
a feeling of hostility that arouses thoughts of attack [syn: aggression]
a disposition to fight [syn: contentiousness, belligerence, pugnacity, quarrelsomeness]
Usage examples of "aggressiveness".
President Hosni Mubarak detests Saddam for his brutality and aggressiveness, and for having personally lied to Mubarak before the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait.
But our Modern State has neither absorbed nor destroyed individuality, which now, accepting the necessary restrictions upon its material aggressiveness, resumes at every opportunity its freedom and enterprise upon a higher level of life.
His course in the Senate, until the time of his defection, had been specially marked for its aggressiveness in support of the war and the destruction of the institution of slavery.
I also knew that when we came back the enemy would have stepped up their own aggressiveness, no doubt adding a few more booby traps around the area to welcome us.
With all his willful aggressiveness he was a companionable person who meant much better towards his fellows than he himself knew.
An actual or latent aggressiveness on the part of any one nation inevitably provokes its neighbors into a defiant and suspicious temper.
Carl Newsome might not have received an overdose when they were dishing out brains, but when they added the guts and aggressiveness, they spilled quite a lot extra.
What other results could have been expected when American society began to overvalue on the one hand security, censorship, an imagined world-saving idealism and self-sacrifice in war, and on the other hand insatiable hunger for possessions, fiercely competitive aggressiveness, sadistic male belligerence, contempt for parents and the state, and a fantastically overstimulated sexuality?
Zarqawi, Iraqi nationalists and tribalists offended by American aggressiveness.
Perhaps other minor adjustments as wella heightened aggressiveness, certainly, and perhaps a suppression of conscience?
They had the shape of asynchronous crystals and preserved their selective aggressiveness.
The following day, Lieutenant Wilson Davis, a thirty-seven-year-old wholesale produce merchant from Baltimore who had been an amateur dog trainer in civilian life, administered the behavioral test to the other dogs, which consisted of tests for gun-shyness, cowardice aggressiveness, or overaggressiveness.
Freud is correct in thinking that aggressiveness is instinctive, but it puts forward the notion that sadomasochism is innately sex-specific, as men reap pleasure from inflicting pain and women reap pleasure from receiving it.
Reagan-Bush years the United States government showed a special aggressiveness in die use of military force abroad.
This included male and female hormones-testosterone, estrogen, progesterone-which affect fertility, sexual aggressiveness and birth control, and during that period of the fifties when the Pill was just beginning to be used, the subject of steroids commanded wide scientific and commercial interest.