aggressive
/əˈɡɹɛs.ɪv/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.32 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Characterized by aggression; highly combative; prone to behave in a way that involves attacking (especially if unjustly) or arguing.
adj
Characterized by aggression; highly combative; prone to behave in a way that involves attacking (especially if unjustly) or arguing.
adj
Exploiting every opportunity to be applied.
noun
One who is aggressive.
Example Sentences
- "an aggressive policy, war, person, nation"
- "When a new aggressive fish is added to an aquarium with an already-established, territorial fish, the established fish will probably fight to protect its territory (the whole tank)."
- "This highly-aggressive approach had results, but briefly caused a major uproar in parts of the United States, which was mitigated by the Webster–Ashburton Treaty in 1842, which formalised the U.S. Navy's contribution to the antislavery efforts."
- "Zombies are aggressive once you are near them."
- "This paper describes how aggressive loop unrolling is done in a retargetable optimizing compiler."
- "Since the most aggressive type of optimization a program can be subjected to is parallelization, understanding a program before attempting to parallelize it is a very important step."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Proto-Indo-European *gʰredʰ-der. Latin gradior Latin aggredior Latin aggressuslbor. English aggress Proto-Indo-European *-wós Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder. Latin -īvus Old French -ifbor. Middle English -yf English -ive English aggressive From aggress + -ive. Compare with French agressif.
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /əˈɡɹɛs.ɪv/
Usage
- American usage