aggressive
/əˈɡɹɛs.ɪv/
aggressive adjective: characterized by aggression; highly combative; prone to behave in a way that involves attacking (especially if unjustly) or arguing.
Adjective
aggressive (comparative more aggressive, superlative most aggressive)
- 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
- When a new aggressive fish is added to an aquarium with an already-established, territorial fish, the established fish will probably fight to protect its territory (the whole tank).2011, Judith S. Weis, Do Fish Sleep, Rutgers University Press, →ISBN, page 63
- Synonyms:
- bare-knuckle
- Tends to attack the player while unprovoked.
- Zombies are aggressive once you are near them.
- Exploiting every opportunity to be applied.
- This paper describes how aggressive loop unrolling is done in a retargetable optimizing compiler.1996, Tibor Gyimothy, Compiler Construction: 6th International Conference, CC '96, Linköping, Sweden, April 24 - 26, 1996. Proceedings, Volume 6, Springer, →ISBN, page 59
- Since the most aggressive type of optimization a program can be subjected to is parallelization, understanding a program before attempting to parallelize it is a very important step.2001, Paul Feautrier, edited by Santosh Pande and Dharma P. Agrawal, Compiler Optimizations for Scalable Parallel Systems, Springer, →ISBN, page 173
- Of a tumor or disease, that spreads quickly or extensively; virulent; malignant.
- Involving high risk for potentially high reward.
- an aggressive stock; an aggressive portfolio
- Female but having a male or masculine gender presentation; butch.
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:aggressive.
Noun
aggressive (plural aggressives)
- One who is aggressive.
- A (Black) woman who presents as masculine; a butch.
- [...]; 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.2012 February 1, Siobhan Brooks, Unequal Desires: Race and Erotic Capital in the Stripping Industry, State University of New York Press, →ISBN, page 110
aggressive meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
aggressive in Hindi
- tending or disposed to aggress
- आक्रमणकारक ākramaṇkārak, जंगी jaṅgī, धक्कामार dhakkāmār, दंगली daṅglī, आक्रामक ākrāmak
aggressive in Tamil
- ஆக்ரோஷமான
aggressive in Urdu
- آمادہ جارحیت, جار حانہ
aggressive in Bengali
- aggressive; rough
- উগ্র ugrô
More languagesFewer languages
- aggressive in Malayalam
- ആക്രമണോൽസുക, അക്രമസ്വഭാവമുള്ള
- aggressive in Kannada
- ಜಗಳಗಂಟ, ಮೇಲೆ ಬೀಳುವ, ದುರಾಕ್ರಮಣದ
- aggressive in Punjabi
- ਮਾਰਖੋਰਾ mārkhorā
- aggressive in Odia
- ଆଗ୍ରାସୀ
- aggressive in Tagalog
- mabalagsik
- aggressive in Arabic
- عُدْوَانِيّ ʕudwāniyy, هُجُومِيّ hujūmiyy
- aggressive in Malay
- agresif
- aggressive in Indonesian
- agresif
- aggressive in Persian
- ستیزجو setizju
- aggressive in Thai
- ก้าวร้าว gâao ráao, ออกตัวแรง
- aggressive in Vietnamese
- xâm lược
Examples of aggressive in a sentence
- This highly-aggressive approach had results, but briefly caused a major uproar in parts of the United States, which was mitigated by the Webster–Ashburton Treaty in 1842, which formalised the U.S.2018 December 1, Drachinifel, 8:56 from the start, in Anti-Slavery Patrols - The West Africa Squadron, archived from the original on 29 Nov...
- The Itanium processor is an example of an Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing (EPIC) architecture and thus relies on aggressive and expensive compiler optimizations for performance.2002, Shpeisman, T. ; Lueh, G.-Y. ; Adl-Tabatabai, A.-R., PACT 2002: 2002 International Conference on Parallel Architectures and...
- This sensibly eases the programmer task and allows for more aggressive optimisations of the global program structure.2003, Susanna Pelagatti, edited by Fethi Rabhi and Sergei Gorlatch, Patterns and Skeletons for Parallel and Distributed Computing...
- The CUDA C code for the GPU, as well as the C and inline assembly code for the CPU, were highly optimized and aggressive compiler optimizations (-O4) were turned on.2011, Wen-mei W. Hwu, GPU Computing Gems Jade Edition, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 11:
Synonyms of aggressive
Antonyms
Forms of aggressive
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more aggressive |
| superlative | most aggressive |
| Noun | |
| plural | aggressives |
Origin of aggressive
From aggress + -ive. Compare with French agressif.
Words formed from aggressive
Phrases with aggressive
Words that rhyme with aggressive
- incessive
- progressive
- ingressive
- oppressive
- depressive
- egressive
- essive
- expressive
- impressive
- obsessive
- possessive
- recessive
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- successive
- accessive
- caressive
- concessive
- degressive
- digressive
- double possessive
- passive-aggressive
- pressive
- regressive
- retrogressive
- transgressive
- abessive
- addressive
- adessive
- alloaggressive
- allosuppressive
- antessive
- antidepressive
- antiexpressive
- antioppressive
- antiprogressive
- antirepressive
- anxiodepressive
- atheroprogressive
- atherosuppressive
- autogressive
- autoregressive
- autorepressive
- brogressive
- cardiodepressive
- cardiosuppressive
- compressive
- concrescive
- confessive
- congressive
- corepressive
- crescive
- decompressive
- derepressive
- dispossessive
- effervescive
- excessive
- exessive
- fauxgressive
- fibrosuppressive
- future perfect progressive
- future progressive
Questions about aggressive
- What does aggressive mean?
- Aggressive means characterized by aggression; highly combative; prone to behave in a way that involves attacking (especially if unjustly) or arguing.
- What is aggressive in Hindi?
- Aggressive in Hindi is आक्रमणकारक (ākramaṇkārak), जंगी (jaṅgī), धक्कामार (dhakkāmār). See Aggressive meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use aggressive in a sentence?
- This highly-aggressive approach had results, but briefly caused a major uproar in parts of the United States, which was mitigated by the Webster–Ashburton Treaty in 1842, which formalised the U.S.
- What part of speech is aggressive?
- Aggressive can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce aggressive?
- Aggressive is pronounced /əˈɡɹɛs.ɪv/ (US).
Words near aggressive in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: aggressive (page history and authors); aggressive (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); aggressive (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); উগ্র (Bengali) (page history and authors); aggressive (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); aggressive (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ਮਾਰਖੋਰਾ (Punjabi) (page history and authors); aggressive (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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