What is a synonym for "aggressive"?

Common synonyms include: belligerent, hostile, pugnacious, scrappy, truculent, abrupt.

How do you pronounce "aggressive"?

Pronounced //əˈɡɹɛs.ɪv//.

//əˈɡɹɛs.ɪv// adj, noun

adj, noun ·Common ·High school level

Noun

1
One who is aggressive.
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."

Adjective

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
Exploiting every opportunity to be applied. especially
"This paper describes how aggressive loop unrolling is done in a retargetable optimizing compiler."
3
That spreads quickly or extensively; virulent; malignant.
4
Involving high risk for potentially high reward.
"an aggressive stock; an aggressive portfolio"
5
Female but having a male or masculine gender presentation; butch. US
"For quotations using this term, see Citations:aggressive."