assertive

C2+ Topic:Describing Qualities

US /əˈsɝtɪv/ See IPA manual

Freq #29882

Meanings

1

adj
aggressively self-assured

I was an energetic assertive child who was always ready to argue.
2

adj
Boldly self-assured; confident without being aggressive.

Hence the ubiquity of Priapus himself as a sculptural representative of the generative principle, populated the Roman gardens, assertive in ithyphallic pose.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

1 adj · aggressively self-assured self-assertingself-assertive

Word family

Forms unassertive

Derived forms assertivelyassertivenesshyperassertivenonassertiveoverassertiveself-assertivesubassertiveunassertiveunderassertive

Related forms assertative

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin assertīvus. Synchronically analyzable as assert + -ive.

Topics

Describing Qualities Word Formation & Derivatives

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