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adj. | 1. aggressive | having or showing determination and energetic pursuit of your ends.; "an aggressive businessman"; "an aggressive basketball player"; "he was aggressive and imperious; positive in his convictions"; "aggressive drivers" |
| ~ battleful, bellicose, combative | having or showing a ready disposition to fight.; "bellicose young officers"; "a combative impulse"; "a contentious nature" |
| ~ militant, competitive | showing a fighting disposition.; "highly competitive sales representative"; "militant in fighting for better wages for workers"; "his self-assertive and ubiquitous energy" |
| ~ high-pressure, hard-hitting | aggressively and persistently persuasive.; "a hard-hitting advertising campaign"; "a high-pressure salesman" |
| ~ hostile | unsolicited and resisted by the management of the target company ( used of attempts to buy or take control of a business).; "hostile takeover"; "hostile tender offer"; "hostile bid" |
| ~ in-your-face | blatantly aggressive.; "on-line hard-boiled in-your-face pornography" |
| ~ obstreperous | boisterously and noisily aggressive.; "kept up an obstreperous clamor" |
| ~ rapacious, ravening, vulturine, vulturous, predatory, raptorial | living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey.; "a predatory bird"; "the rapacious wolf"; "raptorial birds"; "ravening wolves"; "a vulturine taste for offal" |
| ~ pugnacious, rough | ready and able to resort to force or violence.; "pugnacious spirits...lamented that there was so little prospect of an exhilarating disturbance"; "they were rough and determined fighting men" |
| ~ scrappy | full of fighting spirit.; "a scrappy admiral" |
| ~ truculent | defiantly aggressive.; "a truculent speech against the new government" |
| ~ assertive, self-asserting, self-assertive | aggressively self-assured.; "an energetic assertive boy who was always ready to argue"; "pointing directly at a listener is an assertive act" |
| ~ hostile | characterized by enmity or ill will.; "a hostile nation"; "a hostile remark"; "hostile actions" |
| ~ offensive | for the purpose of attack rather than defense.; "offensive weapons" |
adj. | 2. aggressive, fast-growing, strong-growing | tending to spread quickly.; "an aggressive tumor" |
| ~ invasive | marked by a tendency to spread especially into healthy tissue.; "invasive cancer cells" |
adj. | 3. aggressive, belligerent | characteristic of an enemy or one eager to fight.; "aggressive acts against another country"; "a belligerent tone" |
| ~ hostile | characterized by enmity or ill will.; "a hostile nation"; "a hostile remark"; "hostile actions" |
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