Aggressive

/əˈɡɹɛs.ɪv/

Synonyms for "aggressive" (231 found)

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Closest matches (47)

Adjective(2 words)

abrupt active acute adventuresome adventurous ambitious animated antagonistic assertive barbaric battling bearish beastly bellicose belligerent bickering bloodthirsty bloodybloody mindedbloody-minded

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bluff blunt bold brash brisk brusque cavalier chauvinist

Noun(14 words)

accosting assaulting attacking bantam barraging bashing battering biting blitzing bombarding brawling buccaneering cannibalizing charging

Verb(3 words)

assailing buccaneered bulldogged

Strong matches (69)

chauvinistic churlish combative contentious crusty curt defiant disputatious divisive domineering driving dynamic emphatic enemy energetic enterprising enthusiastic eristic factional factious

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ferocious fierce fighting forceful forcible forwardfull of fightfull of pepgo aheadgo gogo-ahead go-go gruff hard-hitting harsh hawkish hearty hostile hustling imperious impetuous incisive industrious inimical intense irascible irritable jingo jingoish jingoist

Adjective(11 words)

combative fast-growing fieriest forcefulforceful argumentgladiatorial hostilehostile climatehostile retortintenseinvasive species spread

Noun(7 words)

commando cutthroat fastballforcefully presentedforward thrusthard shovehardball

Verb(1 words)

hectored

Related words (115)

jingoistic keen kinetic litigious lively living lusty make martial masterful mettlesome militant militaristic military offensive officiouson the offensivepartisan peppy polarizing

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Noun(17 words)

leapfrogging lunging macho pyramiding raiding ramrodding ravening roughnecking sabertooth scufflingshouting matchshoving gesturestrong shoveswaggering thrusting torpedoingviolent push

Adjective(20 words)

military advancepredaceouspredatory stareproactivepromotional aggressivenesspugilistic pugnacious pushier robust ruffianly shrillest slaphappy strident strong-growing toothierverbal attackvigorous violentviolent actviolent shove

Verb(2 words)

muscled shoving

Related word relations

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7 relation types

More general

3 entries

behavioral qualitymedical interventionstrategic behavior

More specific

6 entries

aggressive chemotherapyaggressive marketingaggressive pricingaggressive radiotherapydominant stancepredatory behavior

Collocations

6 entries

aggressive behavioraggressive drivingaggressive expansionaggressive marketingaggressive policyaggressive pricing

Inflections

2 entries

more aggressivemost aggressive

Derivations

2 entries

aggressively aggressiveness

Antonyms

1 entries

unaggressive

similar

25 entries

assertive battleful bellicose combative competitive hard-hitting high-pressure hostilein-your-faceinvasive militant obstreperous offensive predatory pugnacious rapacious

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Translations

94 translations across 62 languages.

Afrikaans

1 entries

aggressief adj (tending or disposed to aggress)

Albanian

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agresiv adj (tending or disposed to aggress)

Ancient Greek

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ἐπιθετικός adj (tending or disposed to aggress)

Arabic

2 entries

عُدْوَانِيّ adj (tending or disposed to aggress)
هُجُومِيّ adj (tending or disposed to aggress)

Armenian

1 entries

ագրեսիվ adj (tending or disposed to aggress)

Asturian

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agresivu adj (tending or disposed to aggress)

Azerbaijani

1 entries

aqressiv adj (tending or disposed to aggress)

Belarusian

2 entries

агрэсы́ўны adj (tending or disposed to aggress)
ваяўні́чы adj (tending or disposed to aggress)

Bulgarian

2 entries

агреси́вен adj (tending or disposed to aggress)
напада́телен adj (tending or disposed to aggress)

Catalan

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agressiu adj (tending or disposed to aggress)

Chinese Mandarin

4 entries

侵略的 adj (tending or disposed to aggress)
好戰的 /好战的 adj (tending or disposed to aggress)
好鬥 /好斗 adj (tending or disposed to aggress)
愛尋釁的 /爱寻衅的 adj (tending or disposed to aggress)

Czech

2 entries

agresivní adj (tending or disposed to aggress)
útočný adj (tending or disposed to aggress)

Danish

1 entries

aggressiv adj (tending or disposed to aggress)

Dutch

1 entries

agressief adj (tending or disposed to aggress)

Esperanto

1 entries

agresema adj (tending or disposed to aggress)

Estonian

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kallaletungiv adj (tending or disposed to aggress)

Finnish

2 entries

aggressiivinen adj (tending or disposed to aggress)
hyökkäävä adj (tending or disposed to aggress)

French

1 entries

agressif adj (tending or disposed to aggress)

Galician

1 entries

agresivo adj (tending or disposed to aggress)

Georgian

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აგრესიული adj (tending or disposed to aggress)

German

2 entries

aggressiv adj (tending or disposed to aggress)
angriffslustig adj (tending or disposed to aggress)

Greek

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επιθετικός adj (tending or disposed to aggress)

Hebrew

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מתגרה adj (tending or disposed to aggress)

Hindi

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आक्रमणकारक adj (tending or disposed to aggress)
जंगी adj (tending or disposed to aggress)
दंगली adj (tending or disposed to aggress)
धक्कामार adj (tending or disposed to aggress)

Hungarian

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agresszív adj (tending or disposed to aggress)

Indonesian

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agresif adj (tending or disposed to aggress)

Irish

2 entries

amasach adj (tending or disposed to aggress)
ionsaitheach adj (tending or disposed to aggress)

Italian

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aggressivo adj (tending or disposed to aggress)

Japanese

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侵略的な adj (tending or disposed to aggress)
攻撃的な adj (tending or disposed to aggress)

Kabuverdianu

2 entries

agresive adj (tending or disposed to aggress)
agresivu adj (tending or disposed to aggress)

Khmer

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ឈ្លានពាន adj (tending or disposed to aggress)

Korean

2 entries

공격적인 adj (tending or disposed to aggress)
침략적인 adj (tending or disposed to aggress)

Latin

2 entries

aggressivus adj (tending or disposed to aggress)
pugnax adj (tending or disposed to aggress)

Latvian

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agresīvs adj (tending or disposed to aggress)

Lithuanian

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agresyvus adj (tending or disposed to aggress)

Macedonian

1 entries

агресивен adj (tending or disposed to aggress)

Malay

1 entries

agresif adj (tending or disposed to aggress)

Maltese

1 entries

aggressiv adj (tending or disposed to aggress)

Mongolian

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түрэмгий adj (tending or disposed to aggress)

Māori

3 entries

kairiri adj (tending or disposed to aggress)
rīrā adj (Spreading rapidly of a disease or tumour)
whakaariki adj (tending or disposed to aggress)

Norwegian

1 entries

aggressiv adj (tending or disposed to aggress)

Occitan

1 entries

agressiu adj (tending or disposed to aggress)

Papiamentu

1 entries

agresivo adj (tending or disposed to aggress)

Persian

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ستیزجو adj (tending or disposed to aggress)

Polish

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agresywny adj (tending or disposed to aggress)
napastliwy adj (tending or disposed to aggress)
wojowniczy adj (tending or disposed to aggress)

Portuguese

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agressivo adj (tending or disposed to aggress)

Quechua

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phiña adj (tending or disposed to aggress)

Romanian

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agresiv adj (tending or disposed to aggress)

Russian

2 entries

агресси́вный adj (tending or disposed to aggress)
вои́нственный adj (tending or disposed to aggress)

Scottish Gaelic

1 entries

ionnsaigheach adj (tending or disposed to aggress)

Serbo-Croatian

4 entries

agresivan adj (tending or disposed to aggress)
nasilan adj (tending or disposed to aggress)
nasrtljiv adj (tending or disposed to aggress)
агресиван adj (tending or disposed to aggress)

Slovak

2 entries

agresívny adj (tending or disposed to aggress)
útočný adj (tending or disposed to aggress)

Slovene

1 entries

nasilen adj (tending or disposed to aggress)

Spanish

1 entries

agresivo adj (tending or disposed to aggress)

Swedish

1 entries

aggressiv adj (tending or disposed to aggress)

Tagalog

1 entries

mabalagsik adj (tending or disposed to aggress)

Thai

2 entries

ก้าวร้าว adj (tending or disposed to aggress)
ออกตัวแรง adj (tending or disposed to aggress)

Turkish

2 entries

agresif adj (tending or disposed to aggress)
saldırgan adj (tending or disposed to aggress)

Ukrainian

3 entries

агреси́вний adj (tending or disposed to aggress)
войови́тий adj (tending or disposed to aggress)
войовни́чий adj (tending or disposed to aggress)

Vietnamese

1 entries

xâm lược adj (tending or disposed to aggress)

Welsh

1 entries

gormesol adj (tending or disposed to aggress)

Yiddish

1 entries

אַגרעסיוו adj (tending or disposed to aggress)

Sample sentences

22 total sentences available.

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The aggressive salesman urged me to sign the contract right away.

Source: tatoeba (19222)

The aggressive man urged me to sign the contract.

Source: tatoeba (49463)

He's the very model of an aggressive salesman.

Source: tatoeba (51323)

The Americans are an aggressive people.

Source: tatoeba (67470)

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