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aggressive

//əˈɡɹɛs.ɪv//

Adjective

A word that describes or modifies a noun or pronoun.

Noun

A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

Note for aggressive

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Forms

Adjective

A word that describes or modifies a noun or pronoun.

Comparative
more aggressive
Superlative
most aggressive

Noun

A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

Plural
aggressives

Definitions

Adjective

A word that describes or modifies a noun or pronoun.

  1. 1.Characterized by aggression; highly combative; prone to behave in a way that involves attacking (especially if unjustly) or arguing.

    • When a new aggressive fish is added to an aquarium with an already-established, territorial fish, the established fish will probably fight to protect its territory (the whole tank).
  2. 2.Exploiting every opportunity to be applied.

    • This paper describes how aggressive loop unrolling is done in a retargetable optimizing compiler.
    • This sensibly eases the programmer task and allows for more aggressive optimisations of the global program structure.
    • The CUDA C code for the GPU, as well as the C and inline assembly code for the CPU, were highly optimized and aggressive compiler optimizations (-O4) were turned on.
  3. 3.Of a tumor or disease, that spreads quickly or extensively; virulent; malignant.

  4. 4.Involving high risk for potentially high reward.

Noun

A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

  1. 1.A (Black) woman who presents as masculine; a butch.

  2. 2.One who is aggressive.

Frequency

Overall

Uncommon· #2922

By learning goal

Everyday conversation
Rare
General reading & writing
Uncommon
Academic
Rare
Literature
Rare

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd

Proto-Italic *ad

Proto-Italic *ad-

Latin ad-

Proto-Indo-European *gʰredʰ-der.

Latin gradior

Latin aggredior

Latin aggressuslbor.

English aggress

Proto-Indo-European *-wós

Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder.

Latin -īvus

Old French -ifbor.

Middle English -yf

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