aggressive

adjectives

having or showing determination and energetic pursuit of your ends

"an aggressive businessman"; "an aggressive basketball player"; "he was aggressive and imperious; positive in his convictions"; "aggressive drivers"

aggressive

is derived from

aggressiveness

antonym

unaggressive

is similar to

having or showing a ready disposition to fight

"bellicose young officers"; "a combative impulse"; "a contentious nature"

battleful, bellicose, combative

is similar to

showing a fighting disposition

"highly competitive sales representative"; "militant in fighting for better wages for workers"; "his self-assertive and ubiquitous energy"

competitive, militant

is similar to

aggressively and persistently persuasive

"a hard-hitting advertising campaign"; "a high-pressure salesman"

hard-hitting, high-pressure

is similar to

unsolicited and resisted by the management of the target company ( used of attempts to buy or take control of a business)

"hostile takeover"; "hostile tender offer"; "hostile bid"

hostile

is similar to

blatantly aggressive

"on-line hard-boiled in-your-face pornography"

in-your-face

is similar to

boisterously and noisily aggressive

"kept up an obstreperous clamor"

obstreperous

is similar to

living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey

"a predatory bird"; "the rapacious wolf"; "raptorial birds"; "ravening wolves"; "a vulturine taste for offal"

predatory, rapacious, raptorial, ravening, vulturine, vulturous

is similar to

ready and able to resort to force or violence

"pugnacious spirits...lamented that there was so little prospect of an exhilarating disturbance"- Herman Melville; "they were rough and determined fighting men"

pugnacious, rough

is similar to

full of fighting spirit

"a scrappy admiral"

scrappy

is similar to

defiantly aggressive

"a truculent speech against the new government"

truculent