Synonyms: aggressive
Definition: having or showing determination and energetic pursuit of your ends
Usage: an aggressive businessman; an aggressive basketball player; he was aggressive and imperious; positive in his convictions; aggressive drivers
Similar words: battleful, bellicose, combative
Definition: having or showing a ready disposition to fight
Usage: bellicose young officers; a combative impulse; a contentious nature
Similar words: competitive, militant
Definition: showing a fighting disposition
Usage: highly competitive sales representative; militant in fighting for better wages for workers; his self-assertive and ubiquitous energy
Similar words: hard-hitting, high-pressure
Definition: aggressively and persistently persuasive
Usage: a hard-hitting advertising campaign; a high-pressure salesman
Similar words: hostile
Definition: unsolicited and resisted by the management of the target company ( used of attempts to buy or take control of a business)
Usage: hostile takeover; hostile tender offer; hostile bid
Similar words: in-your-face
Definition: blatantly aggressive
Usage: on-line hard-boiled in-your-face pornography
Similar words: obstreperous
Definition: boisterously and noisily aggressive
Usage: kept up an obstreperous clamor
Similar words: vulturine, vulturous, predatory, rapacious, raptorial, ravening
Definition: living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey
Usage: a predatory bird; the rapacious wolf; raptorial birds; ravening wolves; a vulturine taste for offal
Similar words: pugnacious, rough
Definition: ready and able to resort to force or violence
Usage: pugnacious spirits...lamented that there was so little prospect of an exhilarating disturbance- Herman Melville; they were rough and determined fighting men
Similar words: scrappy
Definition: full of fighting spirit
Usage: a scrappy admiral
Similar words: truculent
Definition: defiantly aggressive
Usage: a truculent speech against the new government
Synonyms: aggressive, belligerent
Definition: characteristic of an enemy or one eager to fight
Usage: aggressive acts against another country; a belligerent tone
Similar words: hostile
Definition: characterized by enmity or ill will
Usage: a hostile nation; a hostile remark; hostile actions
Synonyms: fast-growing, strong-growing, aggressive
Definition: tending to spread quickly
Usage: an aggressive tumor
Similar words: invasive
Definition: marked by a tendency to spread especially into healthy tissue
Usage: invasive cancer cells