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overaggressive

overaggressive adjective: overly aggressive; of a personality, action or behavior having excessive aggression.

Adjective

overaggressive (comparative more overaggressive, superlative most overaggressive)

  1. Overly aggressive; of a personality, action or behavior having excessive aggression.
    • An American had meant to him an overaggressive boor; but in this young Morton he found as fine a gentleman as even he could wish for, a man also without the flaws of artificial mannerisms.1916, D. George Dery, Under the Big Dipper, Brentano's, page 36
    • If the field agent who finds himself in this situation has still in him a trace of the same attitude shown by the man with whom he is dealing—that of suspicion and an overaggressive determination not to be imposed upon—then it becomes virtually certain that the field agent is going to fail to be a...1920, The Saturday Evening Post 1920-08-07: Volume 193, Issue 6, Benjamin Franklin Literary & Medical Society, page 50

Forms of overaggressive

comparativemore overaggressive
superlativemost overaggressive

Origin of overaggressive

From over- + aggressive.

Words formed from overaggressive

Words that rhyme with overaggressive

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Questions about overaggressive

What does overaggressive mean?
Overaggressive means overly aggressive; of a personality, action or behavior having excessive aggression.
What part of speech is overaggressive?
Overaggressive is an adjective.

Words near overaggressive in the dictionary

  1. overaggravation
  2. overaggregation
  3. overaggregations
  4. overaggression
  5. overaggressions
  6. overaggressive
  7. overaggressively
  8. overaggressiveness
  9. overaging
  10. overagitate
  11. overagitated

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