assaultive
/əsˈɔltɪv/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 1.54 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Confrontational; tending or seeming to assault; characterized by assault.
Example Sentences
- "an assaultive patient; an assaultive incident"
- "1852, “A Dish of Willis,” review of Nathaniel Parker Willis, Pencillings by the Way, in Church’s Bizarre: For Fireside and Wayside, New Series, Part 12, 18 September, 1852, p. 367, […] we must say, that depreciatory judgments and assaultive criticism, are not only not to our taste, but especially ungrateful to our feelings."
- "For the most part, his rages in the past have been directed at authority figures—father, brother, Army sergeant, state parole officer—and have led to violent assaultive behavior on several occasions."
- "We live in an increasingly assaultive and noisy environment, and one may obtain the clearest histories of the provocative effects of this in some migraineurs."
- "As assaultive as "Made in U.S.A" can be, it also seems to have been made in a spirit of insouciance, improvisation and fun."
- "This man is not only very very sick, but I believe he is definitely a Potential Assaultive."
Etymology
Etymology tree English assault Proto-Indo-European *-wós Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder. Latin -īvus Old French -ifbor. Middle English -yf English -ive English assaultive From assault + -ive.