Get to know Aggressive better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like hostile or competitive.
Aggressive in a sentence
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Aggressive meaning
- Characterized by aggression; highly combative; prone to behave in a way that involves attacking (especially if unjustly) or arguing.
- Exploiting every opportunity to be applied.
- That spreads quickly or extensively; virulent; malignant.
Synonyms of Aggressive
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Using Aggressive
- The main meaning on this page is: Characterized by aggression; highly combative; prone to behave in a way that involves attacking (especially if unjustly) or arguing. | Exploiting every opportunity to be applied. | That spreads quickly or extensively; virulent; malignant.
- Useful related words include: hostile, assertive, predatory, obstreperous.
- Possible Dutch translations are: agressief.
- In the example corpus, aggressive often appears in combinations such as: more aggressive, an aggressive, aggressive and.
Example sentences (20)
So people think that younger investors are more aggressive than older investors, but it's really the time frame until when you need to access the money that really matters on how aggressive you can be with pursuing a goal.
Otters are generally not aggressive toward humans, but they can become defensive or aggressive if they feel threatened or cornered.
You’ll have somebody, like I feel like I’m known to be super aggressive on the football field, but then I’m like pretty — I guess people might say I’m still aggressive off the field, but I enjoy having a good time.
If you’re better at aggressive play then build an aggressive team, if you find yourself doing better at the three-point line then get players who do well at that range.
Aggressive row cleaners were able to provide a clean and consistent seedbed by moving the cover crop residue away from the seedbed, but if they were too aggressive, they often bound with residue.
As for the penalty kill, the Flyers need to get more aggressive, and stay aggressive throughout the kill.
But at the same time he did very little to dispel my worries that he simply wasn’t being aggressive enough to move the team forward and actually reaffirmed my doubts that he ever would be aggressive without intervention.
Don’t be aggressive with them or they will be aggressive with you, and you do not want that under any circumstances.
It aims to target what it describes as "aggressive or proactive begging" such as begging near a cash machine or in a manner "reasonably perceived to be intimidating or aggressive".
Aggressive Aggressive fouls are physical or verbal fouls committed by a player against an opponent or the referee.
For example, people with an aggressive personality are quicker to correctly identify aggressive words or situations.
In adult rats, acute injections of corticosterone promote aggressive behavior and acute reduction of corticosterone decreases aggression; however, a chronic reduction of corticosterone levels can produce abnormally aggressive behavior.
The axe, phallic and aggressive, symbolizes a male who will start as aggressive but turn into a friend.
Abbe David Lowell is a defense attorney and partner at the law firm Winston & Strawn LLP and he's representing Hunter Biden in what has been described as a more aggressive legal strategy.
Abhishek’s aggressive posturing might also be a tactic to ward off the heat the TMC is expecting over the panchayat election violence, with the toll crossing 50, at the Opposition meeting.
Abloh, who was beloved by the fashion industry as well as his friends in the music industry including Kanye West, Drake, Rihanna, Frank Ocean and more, died in November 2021 after a private battle with cardiac angiosarcoma, a rare and aggressive cancer.
According to family members cited by local station Omrop Fryslan, Westra, known as “the Beast” for his aggressive riding style, was found dead on Saturday at his place of work close to the northwest Dutch city of Enkhuizen.
According to many analysts, the primary cause for the sudden collapse of the bank is the Federal Reserve’s aggressive interest rate hikes over the past year.
Acorda also emphasized that the PNP will be aggressive in its operations.
Adoption agencies, governed by board members close to the military leaders, were notorious for aggressive child-gathering activities and falsified paperwork that manipulated children’s origins as they raced to send more adoptees abroad.
Common combinations with aggressive
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- more aggressive 26×
- an aggressive 25×
- aggressive and 17×
- and aggressive 16×
- aggressive in 14×
- be aggressive 10×
- aggressive or 6×
- aggressive behavior 6×
- aggressive rate 6×
- aggressive play 5×