aggressiveness
攻击性,侵略性,攻击力,霸气
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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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So the next step could be exploring whether or not the more aggressive caterpillars grow into aggressive butterflies, he says.
Meanwhile, the delta’s tigers are becoming more aggressive because of the changing climate, Mondol says.
When we looked at this 12 months ago, we were looking at an aggressive strategy to build on the strengths we have.
That’s given Republicans an electoral advantage, which they’ve in turn used to stack electoral rules in their favor through aggressive gerrymandering, favorable Supreme Court decisions, and more.
It’s a not-so-scientific theory from Freud’s 1920 book Beyond the Pleasure Principle that suggests people exhibit this instinct outwardly, with actions that are aggressive, risky, or harmful.
Nothing compares to the lack of transparency, and the aggressiveness of this administration.
Note the grabbing aggressiveness of the hands as she is led into the netherworld, particularly the one in between her legs.
Randy was channeling his alleged aggressiveness into expanding the business to Chicago.
But he hurt himself with a chip-on-the-shoulder demeanor and attack-dog aggressiveness against Mitt Romney.
It serves us well in our home city, but perhaps gives us an unwanted air of paranoia and aggressiveness in, say, Hailey, Idaho.
The percept has an aggressiveness which does not belong to the image.
As in the preceding period, the aggressiveness of the trade societies eventually gave rise to combative masters' associations.