Aggressive
Aggressive ({not transcribed}) , adjective
[Compare French agressif.]
1.
Tending or disposed to aggress; having or showing determination and energetic pursuit of one's own ends at the expense of others or mindless of others' needs or desires; characterized by aggression; making assaults; unjustly attacking; as, an aggressive policy, war, person, nation; an aggressive businessman; an aggressive basketball player; he was aggressive and imperious in his convictions; aggressive drivers. Opposite of unaggressive.
No aggressive movement was made.
2.
Marked by self-confident ambition, vigorous competitiveness, energy and initiative; as, an aggressive young executive.
3.
(Medicine, Biology) Tending to grow or spread quickly; as, an aggressive tumor. — AS
4.
Tending to initiate unprovoked attacks; initiating unprovoked military action; eager to fight; as, aggressive acts against another country.
Narrower related terms: bellicose, combative, pugnacious, scrappy, truculent; hard-hitting, high-pressure; hostile (used of attempts to buy or take control of a business: "hostile takeover"; "hostile tender offer"); predatory, rapacious, raptorial, ravening, vulturine, vulturous. See also: assertive, hostile, offensive.