aggressive
咄咄逼人,积极进取,侵略性,咄咄逼人的
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- : 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.
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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.