What does aggressive mean?
Definitions for aggressive
əˈgrɛs ɪvag·gres·sive
Here are all the possible meanings and translations of the word aggressive.
Princeton's WordNet
aggressiveadjective
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"
aggressive, fast-growing(a), strong-growingadjective
tending to spread quickly
"an aggressive tumor"
aggressive, belligerentadjective
characteristic of an enemy or one eager to fight
"aggressive acts against another country"; "a belligerent tone"
Wiktionary
aggressiveadjective
Tending or disposed to aggress; characterized by aggression; making assaults; unjustly attacking.
an aggressive policy, war, person, nation
Etymology: From. Compare with French agressif.
Webster Dictionary
Aggressiveadjective
tending or disposed to aggress; characterized by aggression; making assaults; unjustly attacking; as, an aggressive policy, war, person, nation
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Spoken Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'aggressive' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #4757
Written Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'aggressive' in Written Corpus Frequency: #3732
Adjectives Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'aggressive' in Adjectives Frequency: #621
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of aggressive in Chaldean Numerology is: 5
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of aggressive in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4
Examples of aggressive in a Sentence
It made it feel like a smart move. It made it feel like a proactive move, rather than an aggressive move. It's not coming from aggression at all. It's coming from a personal desire to protect my family.
We're prepared to take a tiny fraction of the people that are coming, and they should be thoroughly screened, for sure, but I think we need to be much more aggressive in moving to a legal immigration system where we pick who comes.
But we don’t need to be aggressive with our kids, and I’m afraid that we’ve sort of lose track of that line and we end up getting aggressive with kids and we end up with aggressive kids. I mean, if we were aggressive with a dog and the dog ended up biting people, would we be surprised?
The vagrants moved in en masse ... [in] tent cities. Theyre all young; theyre all like 24, theyre aggressive, and because theres an awful lot of them together theyre gang-y.
I love the way we've ran the bases all year, we get the base hit to left. Bobby's had some great decisions over there all year, being aggressive and then Tatis just heads up — not only are you running fast, but your eyes are up. As soon as you see the ball get by, before a coach can say, ‘Go, go, go,’ they've already got two steps.
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Translations for aggressive
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- aggressiefAfrikaans
- عدواني, العدوانيArabic
- агресивен, нападателенBulgarian
- agressiuCatalan, Valencian
- agresivní, útočnýCzech
- gormesolWelsh
- aggressivDanish
- angriffslustig, aggressivGerman
- επιθετικόςGreek
- agresaEsperanto
- agresivoSpanish
- kallaletungivEstonian
- سلطهجوPersian
- hyökkäävä, aggressiivinenFinnish
- agressifFrench
- ionsaitheachIrish
- ionnsaigheachScottish Gaelic
- agresivoGalician
- מתגרהHebrew
- आक्रामकHindi
- agresszívHungarian
- ագրեսիվArmenian
- agresifIndonesian
- aggressivoItalian
- אגרסיוויHebrew
- 積極的, 侵略的, 攻撃的, 積極的なJapanese
- აგრესიულიGeorgian
- 호전, 적극적인, 好戰Korean
- aggressivus, feroxLatin
- agresīvsLatvian
- whakaarikiMāori
- түрэмгийMongolian
- aggressiva, aggressivMaltese
- agressiefDutch
- aggressivNorwegian
- agressiuOccitan
- agresywnyPolish
- agressivoPortuguese
- agresivRomanian
- агрессивный, воинственныйRussian
- nasilan, насилан, агресиван, agresivan, насртљив, nasrtljivSerbo-Croatian
- agresívnySlovak
- nasilenSlovene
- agresivAlbanian
- aggressivSwedish
- ก้าวร้าวThai
- mabalagsikTagalog
- saldırgan, agresifTurkish
- агресивнийUkrainian
- xâm lượcVietnamese
- 侵略性Chinese
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