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assertive

/əˈsɝtɪv/

assertive adjective: boldly self-assured; confident without being aggressive.

Adjective

assertive (comparative more assertive, superlative most assertive)

  1. Boldly self-assured; confident without being aggressive.
    • Hence the ubiquity of Priapus himself as a sculptural representative of the generative principle, populated the Roman gardens, assertive in ithyphallic pose.1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page iii
  2. Pungent.
    • an assertive taste or odor

Noun

assertive (plural assertives)

  1. An assertion.
    • Proportionative assertives occur in styles of all kinds, from the least formal to the most formal. Satisfactory declarative equivalents do not exist.1971, Ralph B. Long, Dorothy R. Long, The System of English Grammar (page 113)

assertive meaning in Hindi, Bengali and Malayalam

assertive in Hindi

मुखरतापूर्ण

assertive in Bengali

দৃঢ়, আত্মবিশ্বাসী

assertive in Malayalam

self-assured, confident, self-confident
സ്വഭാവദാർഢ്യമുള്ള, സ്വാഭിപ്രായത്തിൽ ഉറച്ചുനിൽക്കുന്ന, തനിക്കുതാൻപോന്ന, സ്വപ്രത്യയനേയമായ, ആത്മവിശ്വാസമുള്ള, പൂർണ്ണവിശ്വാസമുള്ള

Examples of assertive in a sentence

  • During the veteran's absence, wives often become more independent and more assertive as heads of household.
  • He had no build and did not give off very assertive, let alone aggressive vibrations.
  • This plant is one of the most assertive and sweetest smelling of all herbs.

All 15 example sentences with assertive

Forms of assertive

Adjective
comparativemore assertive
superlativemost assertive
Noun
pluralassertives

Origin of assertive

Borrowed from Medieval Latin assertīvus. Synchronically analyzable as assert + -ive.

Words formed from assertive

Questions about assertive

What does assertive mean?
Assertive means boldly self-assured; confident without being aggressive.
What is assertive in Hindi?
Assertive in Hindi is मुखरतापूर्ण. See Assertive meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is assertive?
Assertive can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce assertive?
Assertive is pronounced /əˈsɝtɪv/ (US).

Words near assertive in the dictionary

  1. assertion
  2. assertional
  3. assertionally
  4. assertionless
  5. assertions
  6. assertive
  7. assertively
  8. assertiveness
  9. assertivenesses
  10. assertives
  11. assertment

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Adapted from Wiktionary: assertive (page history and authors); assertive (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); assertive (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); assertive (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset 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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