aggressive
//əˈɡɹɛs.ɪv//
Forms
- Comparative
- more aggressive
- Superlative
- most aggressive
- Plural
- aggressives
Definitions
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.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.Of a tumor or disease, that spreads quickly or extensively; virulent; malignant.
4.Involving high risk for potentially high reward.
1.A (Black) woman who presents as masculine; a butch.
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