单词 | aggressive |
释义 | ag·gres·sive I. 1. a. < her aggressive behavior > < an aggressive nation > b. < an aggressive fighter > 2. a. < an aggressive salesman > < aggressive leadership > b. < swaggering, blatant, and idiotically aggressive vulgarity — George du Maurier > 3. a. < an aggressive trait > b. botany < aggressive weeds > c. < aggressive waters > d. < an extremely aggressive subspecies > Synonyms: < 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. < aggressive chemotherapy > |
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