aggressive
Definitions
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WordNet 3.6
- adj aggressive having or showing determination and energetic pursuit of your ends; positive in his convictions" "an aggressive businessman","an aggressive basketball player","he was aggressive and imperious","aggressive drivers"
- adj aggressive characteristic of an enemy or one eager to fight "aggressive acts against another country","a belligerent tone"
- adj aggressive tending to spread quickly "an aggressive tumor"
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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- Aggressive characteristic of an enemy or one eager to fight
- Aggressive marked by self-confident ambition, competitiveness, energy and initiative; as, an aggressive young executive.
- Aggressive 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."
- Aggressive (Med., Biol) tending to spread quickly
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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
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- aggressive Characterized by aggression; tending to aggress; prone to begin a quarrel; making the first attack; offensive, as opposed to defensive: as, the minister pursued an aggressive foreign policy.
- aggressive Synonyms Aggressive, Offensive. Offensive is the direct opposite to defensive. Offensive warfare is that in which one is quick to give battle, as opportunity offers or can be made, and presses upon the enemy. Aggressive warfare is only secondarily of this sort; primarily it is a warfare prompted by the spirit of encroachment, the desire of conquest, plunder, etc. A war that is thus aggressive is naturally offensive at first, but may lose that character by the vigor of the resistance made; it then ceases to be thought of as aggressive. Hence aggressive has come to be often synonymous with offensive.
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Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
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- adj Aggressive making the first attack, or prone to do so: offensive as opposed to defensive
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Quotations
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“Aggression, the writer's main source of energy.” -
“The tendency of aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the most powerful obstacle to culture.” -
“The basic difference between being assertive and being aggressive is how our words and behavior affect the rights and well being of others.”
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“The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man.” -
“Our capacity to retaliate must be, and is, massive in order to deter all forms of aggression.”
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“Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.”
Etymology
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
Cf. F. agressif,
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
L. aggredi, -gressus—ad, to, gradi, to step.
Usage
In literature:
The two fleets remained in contact for three days following, but neither took the aggressive.
"A History of Sea Power" by William Oliver Stevens and Allan Westcott
There was no room for ambition or aggression.
"The War in South Africa" by Arthur Conan Doyle
It is evident that the present intentions of France are those of aggression.
"William Pitt and the Great War" by John Holland Rose
If their soldiers had arrived in time, they would have anticipated him in the aggression.
"Sir Walter Ralegh" by William Stebbing
It shall be my errand to Washington to urge such an aggressive course.
"The Flag" by Homer Greene
The Iraqi government and Sunni Arab tribes must aggressively pursue al Qaeda.
"The Iraq Study Group Report" by United States Institute for Peace
It was an act of aggression.
"The Fire People" by Ray Cummings
Lushington was an aggressive smoker, and with every puff he seemed to say: 'There!
"Fair Margaret" by Francis Marion Crawford
The Spaniards, who had their main force at St. Augustine, were more or less aggressive, which kept the advanced posts in a state of alarm.
"An Historical Account of the Settlements of Scotch Highlanders in America" by J. P. MacLean
The Professor, on the other hand, had a hard face like a hatchet, tipped with an aggressive black goatee beard.
"Tongues of Conscience" by Robert Smythe Hichens
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In poetry:
Nothing, in brief, but maudlin confession,
Irresponse to human aggression,
Amid the precipitation, down-float
Of insubstantial manna,
Lifting the faint susurrus
Of his subjective hosannah.
Irresponse to human aggression,
Amid the precipitation, down-float
Of insubstantial manna,
Lifting the faint susurrus
Of his subjective hosannah.
"'The Age Demanded'" by Ezra Pound
His Indicative some new aggression foreshews—
His Potential means plunder to friends and to foes—
His Subjunctive denotes turning Saints into Cash—
His Optative aims at these Islands a dash:
His Potential means plunder to friends and to foes—
His Subjunctive denotes turning Saints into Cash—
His Optative aims at these Islands a dash:
"The New French Grammar Analysed" by Thomas Stott
Long years we have suffered opprobrium and wrong,
But we clung to your side with affection so strong,
That at last, in mere wanton aggression, you broke
All the ties of our hearts with one murderous stroke.
But we clung to your side with affection so strong,
That at last, in mere wanton aggression, you broke
All the ties of our hearts with one murderous stroke.
"Farewell To Brother Jonathan" by Anonymous Americas
But even morons think a while
When trembling on the brink a while
Of chaos, and they've lately come to see,
Subtracting his aggressiveness
And picturesque expressiveness.
There's noting much remaining of John T.
When trembling on the brink a while
Of chaos, and they've lately come to see,
Subtracting his aggressiveness
And picturesque expressiveness.
There's noting much remaining of John T.
"'John T'" by C J Dennis
October blasts had strown the wreaths that erstwhile hung so gay,
Above the brows of Queenston Heights where we impatient lay;
Niagara fretted at our feet, as chafing at his post,
And impotence to turn the fleets that bore the aggressive host.
Above the brows of Queenston Heights where we impatient lay;
Niagara fretted at our feet, as chafing at his post,
And impotence to turn the fleets that bore the aggressive host.
"Laura Secord: The Heroine of The War Of 1812 - Act III" by Sarah Anne Curzon
In news:
Madonna has announced that she's ready to bury the hatchet with Elton John -- but she's done it in a passive-aggressive way.
Aggression Under False Pretenses .
Downtown will be the focal point of Super Bowl XLVI, but communities from Zionsville to Columbus are aggressively pursuing some of the money visitors are expected to shower on the region.
Releasing its financial results for the year ending March 31, the indie studio used earnings from the teen blockbuster to aggressively take balance sheet write-downs.
Hyundai has aggressively collected customer feedback about its cars over the last decade.
"You have to be more aggressive and explosive and kind of crazy," she says.
Juvenile aggressive cemento-ossifying fibroma of the sinonasal tract: Case report.
Aggressive fibromatosis of the neck treated with a combination of chemotherapy and indomethacin.
LaMichael James says Ducks will be aggressive against Stanford Oregon at Stanford preview: Why LaMichael James doesn't like the ' finesse ' label, plus Ducks coach Chip Kelly on one of the key matchups to watch.
Joe Raedle/Getty ImagesClodia Coicour, a 43-year-old Florida Walmart employee, was arrested for aggressive battery on Monday after she allegedly attacked a woman she suspected of having an affair with her husband.
Clodia Coicour, a 43-year-old Florida Walmart employee, was arrested for aggressive battery on Monday after she allegedly attacked a woman she suspected of having an affair with her husband.
Last year's hurricanes and flooding not only engulfed homes and carried away roads and bridges in hard-hit areas of the country, it dispersed aggressive invasive species as well.
Hockey is a sport known for aggressive behavior, and Solar Bears fans got an eyeful of it on Monday.
Herpes Virus Could Kill Aggressive Breast Cancer.
One of the most aggressive creatures in the Sub-Saharan or anywhere else, hippos can outrun the bejeezus out of the average human (up to an impressive 30 miles per hour), despite the fact that they're, you know, on the zaftig side.
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In science:
In different regimes, however, aggressive activity functions can cause ‘sluggish mixing’, where the activity process evolves on a much slower time scale than the scaled queue lengths, yielding oscillatory fluid limits that follow random trajectories.
Queue-Based Random-Access Algorithms: Fluid Limits and Stability Issues
In other scenarios, however, the fluid limit reflects that more aggressive activity functions may force the system into inefficient states for extended periods of time and produce instability.
Queue-Based Random-Access Algorithms: Fluid Limits and Stability Issues
We then use the fluid limits to demonstrate the potential instability of aggressive activity functions in Sections IV and V.
Queue-Based Random-Access Algorithms: Fluid Limits and Stability Issues
Results in suggest that more aggressive choices of the functions fi (·) and gi (·), which translate into functions ri (·) that grow faster to infinity, can improve the delay performance.
Queue-Based Random-Access Algorithms: Fluid Limits and Stability Issues
This is a major challenge, and not the real goal of the present paper, since we aim to demonstrate the opposite, namely that more aggressive activity or de-activation functions can cause instability.
Queue-Based Random-Access Algorithms: Fluid Limits and Stability Issues
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