Synonym: belligerent, combative, hostile, militant, offensive. Antonym: defensive. Similar words: aggression, progressive, impressive, excessive, congressional, massive, Congress, depression. Meaning: [-esɪv] adj. 1. having or showing determination and energetic pursuit of your ends 2. tending to spread quickly 3. characteristic of an enemy or one eager to fight.
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151. Aggressive and competitive women, unconcerned with motherhood, produce more ruthless men-and a society so competitive that it disintegrates.
152. He gave an undertaking that his government would not adopt aggressive measures in future.
153. Psychological studies have confirmed this: the more advanced students have much less aggressive personalities than the average person.
154. Being too aggressive can land you in trouble - and still not get you paid.
155. In it, she mainly blames women, saying some are too aggressive, and advises them to change their attitude.
156. An aggressive policy may also be dictated by economic circumstances.
157. They specifically admitted children who were behaviorally aggressive, not mentally deficient, brain damaged, or psychotic.
158. A stimulus thrusting towards one is more energetic and aggressive than a similar stimulus moving away.
159. The selloff in tech stocks happened, and the big players at aggressive growth funds started buying REITs.
160. Serena is torn between her sisterly love and her annoyance with Stella's aggressive insecurity.
161. The new leaders have been very aggressive in promoting their conservative agenda.
162. Sao Paulo state officials admit that more aggressive long-term water conservation may have averted, or at least eased, the crisis.
163. You guys being a little bit aggressive at the beginning put him on the defensive.
164. Marx was so aggressive in his criticism of capitalism that we have a hard time listening to him.
165. Horses that are well handled from the time of being foals are most unlikely to be aggressive towards us.
166. Aggressive factors include gastric juice and bile salts which can reflux back into the stomach.
167. Bees and wasps will leave their stings in the flesh of their enemies,(sentencedict.com) employing a similarly aggressive form of self-mutilation.
168. If you are intent on sorting out the problem, take courage and talk to your boss privately about his/her aggressive behaviour.
169. The unfortunate consequence of this aggressive approach has been the development of hypoparathyroidism in more than 10 percent of patients undergoing surgery.
170. Aggressive people become more aggressive around passive people, Ruth said.
171. In other words, aggressive fantasy may suggest or stimulate aggressive behaviour, rather than drain off the motive to behave aggressively.
172. Some of the crowd were very aggressive, shouting and banging on windows.
173. The company said aggressive pricing by Intel has driven down prices for so-called 486 chips.
174. Another possibility is that advanced patient age prompts a less aggressive hospital treatment so that its effect on mortality is exerted before discharge. Sentencedict.com
175. It is the Teddy-boy types, young men who are seen as being the most violently aggressive towards Blacks.
176. The emergency consists of a takeover bid by a larger and more aggressive company.
177. It also reportedly sold off a bunch of Sparc motherboards on very aggressive terms.
178. Clearly his aggressive behavior troubled him because he had almost immediately brought it up.
179. Male viewers, for example, may not like a certain woman anchor, believing her to be too aggressive.
180. Compliments Not accepting compliments is another example of aggressive behaviour.
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