aggressive

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   having or showing determination and energetic pursuit of your ends

   an aggressive businessman

2. 2
   adj

   characteristic of an enemy or one eager to fight

   aggressive acts against another country

3. 3
   adj

   tending to spread quickly

   an aggressive tumor

4. 4
   adj

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

   an aggressive policy, war, person, nation

5. 5
   adj

   Exploiting every opportunity to be applied.

   This paper describes how aggressive loop unrolling is done in a retargetable optimizing compiler.

6. 6
   adj

   Involving high risk for potentially high reward.

   an aggressive stock; an aggressive portfolio

7. 7
   adj

   Female but having a male or masculine gender presentation; butch.

   For quotations using this term, see Citations:aggressive.

8. 8
   noun

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

   [...]; usually the femme is the ho [at the costume party], and the butch/aggressive is the pimp. [...] An aggressive is a masculine-identified woman like the category of butch; aggressive is the contemporary term among younger masculine-identified women.

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 *-wósder. Latin -īvus Old French -ifbor. Middle English -yf English -ive English aggressive From aggress + -ive. Compare with French agressif.