aggressive

English

A Chihuahua displaying aggressive behaviour

Etymology

From aggress +‎ -ive. Compare with French agressif.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA: /ʌˈɡɹɛs.ɪv/

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Adjective

aggressive (comparative more aggressive, superlative most aggressive)

1. Tending or disposed to aggress; characterized by aggression; making assaults; unjustly attacking.

   an aggressive policy, war, person, nation

Synonyms

• See also Wikisaurus:combative

Related terms

• aggression
• aggressively
• aggressiveness
• aggressivity
• aggressor
• passive aggressive

Translations

tending or disposed to aggress

• Afrikaans: aggressief (af)
• Albanian: agresiv (sq)
• Arabic: عدواني (ar)
• Asturian: agresivu (ast)
• Bulgarian: нападателен (bg) (napadátelen), агресивен (bg) (agresíven)
• Catalan: agressiu (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 好鬥 (cmn), 好斗 (cmn) (hàodòu), 好戰的 (cmn), 好战的 (cmn) (hàozhàn de), 侵略的 (cmn) (qīnlüè de), 愛尋釁的 (cmn), 爱寻衅的 (cmn) (ài xúnxìn de)

• Czech: útočný (cs) m, agresivní (cs)
• Danish: aggressiv (da)
• Dutch: agressief (nl)
• Esperanto: agresa (eo)
• Estonian: kallaletungiv (et)
• Finnish: aggressiivinen (fi), hyökkäävä (fi)
• French: agressif (fr)
• Galician: agresivo (gl)
• Georgian: აგრესიული (ka) (agresiuli)
• German: aggressiv (de), angriffslustig (de)
• Greek: επιθετικός (el) (epithetikós)
• Hebrew: מתגרה (he)
• Hindi: please add this translation if you can: shuddhata, yatharthata
• Hungarian: agresszív (hu)
• Indonesian: agresif (id)
• Irish: ionsaitheach (ga)
• Italian: aggressivo (it)
• Japanese: 積極的な (ja) (せっきょくてきな, sekkyokuteki na), 侵略的な (ja) (しんりゃくてきな, shinryakuteki na), 攻撃的な (ja) (こうげきてきな, kōgekiteki na)

• Korean: 호전 (ko) (hojeon) (好戰 (ko))
• Latin: aggressivus (la)
• Latvian: agresīvs (lv)
• Maltese: aggressiv (mt) m, aggressiva (mt) f
• Maori: whakaariki (mi)
• Mongolian: түрэмгий (mn) (türemgij)
• Norwegian: aggressiv (no)
• Occitan: agressiu (oc)
• Papiamentu: agresivo
• Persian: سلطهجو (fa)
• Polish: agresywny (pl)
• Portuguese: agressivo (pt)
• Romanian: agresiv (ro)
• Russian: агрессивный (ru) (agressívnyj), воинственный (ru) (voínstvennyj)
• Scottish Gaelic: ionnsaigheach (gd)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: агресиван (sh), насилан (sh), насртљив (sh)

  Roman: agresivan (sh), nasilan (sh), nasrtljiv (sh)

• Slovak: agresívny (sk)
• Slovene: nasilen (sl)
• Spanish: agresivo (es)
• Swedish: aggressiv (sv)
• Tagalog: mabalagsik (tl)
• Thai: ก้าวร้าว (th) (gâao ráao)
• Turkish: saldırgan (tr)
• Ukrainian: агресивний (uk) (ahresývnyj)
• Vietnamese: xâm lược (vi)
• Welsh: gormesol (cy)

External links

• aggressive in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• aggressive in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

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Italian

Adjective

aggressive f

1. Feminine plural form of aggressivo

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Swedish

Adjective

aggressive

1. absolute definite natural masculine form of aggressiv.