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aggressive

/uh-gres-iv/US // əˈgrɛs ɪv //UK // (əˈɡrɛsɪv) //

咄咄逼人,积极进取,侵略性,咄咄逼人的

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : characterized by or tending toward unprovoked offensives, attacks, invasions, or the like; militantly forward or menacing: aggressive acts against a neighboring country.
    • : making an all-out effort to win or succeed; competitive: an aggressive basketball player.
    • : vigorously energetic, especially in the use of initiative and forcefulness: an aggressive salesperson.
    • : boldly assertive and forward; pushy: an aggressive driver.
    • : emphasizing maximum growth and capital gains over quality, security, and income: an aggressive mutual fund.
    • : Medicine/Medical. growing or spreading rapidly; highly invasive; difficult or impossible to treat successfully: aggressive brain lesions.pertaining to a risky surgery or treatment, or to a medication that has grave side effects: aggressive chemotherapy.
    • : spreading more rapidly than is desirable; tending to spread where not wanted: The joe-pye weed may be too aggressive to contain in the small area you’ve designated.

Synonyms & Antonyms

adj.assertive

Examples

  • She also expressed regret for not being more aggressive internally to help right the ship on the response.

  • He’s a conservative “tough on crime” Republican who supports aggressive prosecutorial tactics.

  • Under an aggressive pro-Democratic gerrymander, they likely secure just nine safe seats.

  • She can be incredibly sexually aggressive, or she can be very frightened when someone just touches her hand.

  • One officer who had assaulted her briefly disappeared from her area of the detention center only to later return, becoming “increasingly aggressive and intimidating.”

  • They were just way too aggressive to try and maintain on a farm here,” says Gow of his “Nazi cows.

  • And it is not clear that there have been a rash of lawsuits from outraged parents over aggressive Christmastime greetings.

  • Kim Jong Un is changing role models, steering Pyongyang away from Chinese autocrats toward the ultra-aggressive Vladimir Putin.

  • In a rather passive aggressive letter, the House Minority Leader wrote.

  • Question those taking on the mantle of victimhood and you are immediately cast as some kind of aggressive, unfeeling oppressor.

  • She alighted, and her aggressive servants drew away somewhat.

  • And here M. Barbiche suddenly threw himself into the attitude of an enraged and aggressive monkey.

  • His chin, thrust slightly forward in a manner almost aggressive, showed the dusk of close-shaven hair.

  • The goods manager was not aggressive, and it was sometimes thought that Mathieson inclined to encroach upon his territory.

  • The insurgent chief advocated an aggressive war, and in the same month it was decided to send more American troops to Manila.