Aggressive Meaning
/əˈɡɹɛs.ɪv/Definition, CEFR level C1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
adjCharacterized by aggression; highly combative; prone to behave in a way that involves attacking (especially if unjustly) or arguing.
adjExploiting every opportunity to be applied.
Sentence Examples
The aggressive salesman urged me to sign the contract right away.
The aggressive man urged me to sign the contract.
Seals have been known to exhibit aggressive behaviour towards swimmers.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The ____ driver kept tailgating and honking, which made others feel unsafe on the road.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
He has a very ____ marketing style that some find a bit pushy.
Word Origin & History
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.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"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)."
— 2011, Judith S. Weis, Do Fish Sleep, Rutgers University Press, →ISBN, page 63:
"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."
— 2018 December 1, Drachinifel, 8:56 from the start, in Anti-Slavery Patrols - The West Africa Squadron, archived from the original on 29 Nov 2024:
"This paper describes how aggressive loop unrolling is done in a retargetable optimizing compiler."
— 1996, Tibor Gyimothy, Compiler Construction: 6th International Conference, CC '96, Linköping, Sweden, April 24 - 26, 1996. Proceedings, Volume 6, Springer, →ISBN, page 59:
"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."
— 2001, Paul Feautrier, edited by Santosh Pande and Dharma P. Agrawal, Compiler Optimizations for Scalable Parallel Systems, Springer, →ISBN, page 173:
"However, aggressive compiler techniques such as loop unrolling, promoting of subscripted array variables into registers (especially in of subscripted array variables into registers (especially in loops) and interprocedural optimizations create heavy register pressure and it is still quite important to do a good job of register allocation."
— 2002, Y. N. Srikant, Priti Shankar, The Compiler Design Handbook: Optimizations and Machine Code Generation, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 465:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The ____ driver kept tailgating and honking, which made others feel unsafe on the road.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
He has a very ____ marketing style that some find a bit pushy.