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Aggressive   /əgrˈɛsɪv/   Listen
Aggressive

adjective
1.
Having or showing determination and energetic pursuit of your ends.  "An aggressive basketball player" , "He was aggressive and imperious; positive in his convictions" , "Aggressive drivers"
2.
Tending to spread quickly.  Synonyms: fast-growing, strong-growing.
3.
Characteristic of an enemy or one eager to fight.  Synonym: belligerent.  "A belligerent tone"



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"Aggressive" Quotes from Famous Books



... stubborn and aggressive, the opposing forces had faced each other for weeks. Yet it had not been a sanguinary conflict. Aside from a few bruised shins and torn coats and missing caps, there had been no casualties worth mentioning. It was not a country-wide war. It was, indeed, a war of which no history save ...
— The Flag • Homer Greene

... pajamas lighted the oil stable lantern, hung it with its back toward me, on a long hook that reached down from one of the rafters, and bore down upon Larry, whose face was instantly wreathed in puckered smiles at the sight of a fellow-human who, though big, evidently had no intention of being aggressive. ...
— The Garden, You, and I • Mabel Osgood Wright

... radiant beautiful. He had forgotten what her head, what her face offered to the sight; she was in white, there were gold figures on her dress and her hair was a casque of gold. He saw in a single moment that she was happy, happy with an aggressive splendour. But she wouldn't speak to him of that, she would speak only ...
— The Lesson of the Master • Henry James

... 1861 found the country in a state approaching demoralization. Lincoln had received a majority of the electoral vote but far from a majority of the popular vote. The victory was so narrow that the Republicans did not feel themselves strong enough for aggressive action, and the party was composed of a number of diverse elements not yet sufficiently united to agree upon a distinctive policy. Its one cohesive force was the principle of no further extension of ...
— The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) • Ida Husted Harper

... counsels of Parson Lot had undoubtedly great weight in giving an aggressive tone both to the paper and the society. But if he was largely responsible for the fighting temper of the early movement, he, at any rate, never shirked his share of the fighting. His name was the butt at which all shafts were aimed. ...
— Alton Locke, Tailor And Poet • Rev. Charles Kingsley et al


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