assertive

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   aggressively self-assured

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

2. 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.

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

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