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Aggressive

//əˈɡɹɛs.ɪv// adj, noun

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    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"

  2. 2
    Exploiting every opportunity to be applied. especially

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

  3. 3
    That spreads quickly or extensively; virulent; malignant.
  4. 4
    Involving high risk for potentially high reward.

    "an aggressive stock; an aggressive portfolio"

  5. 5
    Female but having a male or masculine gender presentation; butch. US

    "For quotations using this term, see Citations:aggressive."

Adjective
  1. 1
    having or showing determination and energetic pursuit of your ends wordnet
  2. 2
    characteristic of an enemy or one eager to fight wordnet
  3. 3
    tending to spread quickly wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    One who is aggressive.
  2. 2
    A (Black) woman who presents as masculine; a butch. US

    "[...]; 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."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From aggress + -ive. Compare with French agressif.

Etymology 2

From aggress + -ive. Compare with French agressif.

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