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pushy

/ˈpʊʃ.i/

pushy adjective: overly assertive, bold, or determined; aggressively ambitious.

Adjective

pushy (comparative pushier, superlative pushiest)

  1. Overly assertive, bold, or determined; aggressively ambitious.
    • Pushy parents 'ruin sports days'2005 June 24, BBC
    Antonyms:
    unpushy

pushy meaning in Tamil, Marathi, Urdu and Malayalam

pushy in Tamil

முந்திச்செல்லத்தூண்டல்

pushy in Marathi

पुशी

pushy in Urdu

مہم جو

pushy in Malayalam

self-assertive, assertive, overbearing
സ്വന്തം കാര്യം പൊക്കിപ്പിടിക്കുന്ന, തൻപ്രമാണിത്തം കാട്ടുന്ന, അഹംഭാവമുള്ള, ഉദ്ധതമായ, തൻപോരിമയുള്ള, തന്നത്താൻപൊക്കിയായ

Examples of pushy in a sentence

  • He was pushy, but he dialed that in until they found him tolerable.
  • Pushy salespeople are a major aversion of mine.
  • The horse becomes “pushy and shovey” and does not respect the cowboy's space or authority.

All 11 example sentences with pushy

Synonyms of pushy

Antonyms

Forms of pushy

comparativepushier
superlativepushiest

Origin of pushy

From push + -y.

Words formed from pushy

Words that rhyme with pushy

Questions about pushy

What does pushy mean?
Pushy means overly assertive, bold, or determined; aggressively ambitious.
What is pushy in Tamil?
Pushy in Tamil is முந்திச்செல்லத்தூண்டல். See Pushy meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is pushy?
Pushy is an adjective.
How do you pronounce pushy?
Pushy is pronounced /ˈpʊʃ.i/ (UK).

Words near pushy in the dictionary

  1. Pushtuns
  2. pushup
  3. pushups
  4. pushwall
  5. pushwalls
  6. pushy
  7. pusil
  8. pusilanimous
  9. pusillanimities
  10. pusillanimity
  11. pusillanimous

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: pushy (page history and authors); pushy (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); pushy (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); pushy (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); pushy (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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