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单词 aggressive
释义 ag·gres·sive
I. \-esiv, -ēv\ adjective
1.
 a. : tending toward, characterized by, or practicing aggression
  < her aggressive behavior >
  < an aggressive nation >
 b. : marked by combative readiness or bold determination : not conciliatory : militant
  < an aggressive fighter >
2.
 a. : marked by driving forceful energy, ambition, or initiative : enterprising
  < an aggressive salesman >
  < aggressive leadership >
 b. : marked by obtrusive energy and self-assertiveness : demanding or attracting attention : self-confident
  < swaggering, blatant, and idiotically aggressive vulgarity — George du Maurier >
3.
 a. : promoting or accessory to aggression in predaceous animals (as insects) especially by concealment or disguise
  < an aggressive trait >
 b. botany : spreading with vigor
  < aggressive weeds >
 c. : chemically active
  < aggressive waters >
 d. : tending or able to utilize a variety of habitats : able to encroach on occupied areas : variable and adaptable — used of organisms and taxa
  < an extremely aggressive subspecies >
Synonyms:
 militant, assertive, self-assertive, pushing, pushful: aggressive may apply either to zealous loyalty to causes or to personal ambitions and aims; it suggests forceful and confident procedures and attitudes, sometimes truculent contentiousness or cavalier treatment of others
  < positive in his convictions, aggressive and imperious, he became a zealot in any cause he embraced — F.L.Hise >
  < as intolerant and aggressive as any of the traditional satirists — C.D.Lewis >
  militant, complimentary except for suggestions of doctrinaire intractability, applies to fervent, resolute, devoted furthering of a cause
  < the militant suffragist nuisance — Rose Macaulay >
  < militant in fighting to get for workers a larger share of the national income — Time >
  assertive suggests bold self-confidence and determination in expression of opinion
  < an assertive, opinionated, likable fellow, ready to fight, drink, dance, shoot, or brag — V.L.Parrington >
  < to say, with some challenging assertive people, that trees are more beautiful than flowers — E.V.Lucas >
  self-assertive, usually uncomplimentary, generally connotes obtrusive, crass forwardness or brash self-confidence
  < the social and political revolt beginning in the new middle class against the Tory aristocracy found more vigorous expression in the self-assertive and ubiquitous energy of Henry Brougham — G.M.Trevelyan >
  < self-assertive and ill-bred bourgeois — Edmund Wilson >
  pushing and pushful may praise by indicating ambition, energy, and enterprise
  < an energetic, pushing youth, already intent on getting on in the world — Sherwood Anderson >
  < the pushful energetic man of business — Aldous Huxley >
  or blame by indicating snobbish or crude intrusiveness
  < a pushing sort, forever exposing themselves to the slights arising from their own undesirability — Mary Austin >
  < ignorant, pushful, impatient of restraint and precedent — H.L.Mencken >
II. adjective
: more severe, intensive, or comprehensive than usual especially in dosage or extent
 < aggressive chemotherapy >
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