aggressive en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- /əˈɡɹɛs.ɪv/ (US)
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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 *-wós Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder. Latin -īvus Old French -ifbor. Middle English -yf English -ive English aggressive From aggress + -ive. Compare with French agressif.
Meanings
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Characterized by aggression; highly combative; prone to behave in a way that involves attacking (especially if unjustly) or arguing.
This highly-aggressive approach had results, but briefly caused a major uproar in parts of the United States, which was mitigated by the Webster–Ashburton Treaty in 1842, which formalised the U.S. Navy's contribution to the antislavery efforts.
2018 December 1, Drachinifel, 8:56 from the start, in Anti-Slavery Patrols - The West Africa Squadron, archived from the original on 29 Nov 2024:When a new aggressive fish is added to an aquarium with an already-established, territorial fish, the established fish will probably fight to protect its territory (the whole tank).
2011, Judith S. Weis, Do Fish Sleep, Rutgers University Press, →ISBN, page 63:an aggressive policy, war, person, nation
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(of an entity) Characterized by aggression; highly combative; prone to behave in a way that involves attacking (especially if unjustly) or arguing. ▸ Tends to attack the player while unprovoked.
Zombies are aggressive once you are near them.
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(especially, of a method or process) Exploiting every opportunity to be applied.
This paper describes how aggressive loop unrolling is done in a retargetable optimizing compiler.
1996, Tibor Gyimothy, Compiler Construction: 6th International Conference, CC '96, Linköping, Sweden, April 24 - 26, 1996. Proceedings, Volume 6, Springer, →ISBN, page 59:However, aggressive compiler techniques such as loop unrolling, promoting of subscripted array variables into registers (especially in of subscripted array variables into registers (especially in loops) and interprocedural optimizations create heavy register pressure and it is still quite important to do a good job of register allocation.
2002, Y. N. Srikant, Priti Shankar, The Compiler Design Handbook: Optimizations and Machine Code Generation, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 465:The CUDA C code for the GPU, as well as the C and inline assembly code for the CPU, were highly optimized and aggressive compiler optimizations (-O4) were turned on.
2011, Wen-mei W. Hwu, GPU Computing Gems Jade Edition, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 11:The Itanium processor is an example of an Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing (EPIC) architecture and thus relies on aggressive and expensive compiler optimizations for performance.
2002, Shpeisman, T. ; Lueh, G.-Y. ; Adl-Tabatabai, A.-R., PACT 2002: 2002 International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques : proceedings : 22-25 September, 2002, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA, IEEE Computer Society Press →ISBN, page 249Since the most aggressive type of optimization a program can be subjected to is parallelization, understanding a program before attempting to parallelize it is a very important step.
2001, Paul Feautrier, edited by Santosh Pande and Dharma P. Agrawal, Compiler Optimizations for Scalable Parallel Systems, Springer, →ISBN, page 173:This sensibly eases the programmer task and allows for more aggressive optimisations of the global program structure.
2003, Susanna Pelagatti, edited by Fethi Rabhi and Sergei Gorlatch, Patterns and Skeletons for Parallel and Distributed Computing, Springer, →ISBN, page 182:
- Of a tumor or disease, that spreads quickly or extensively; virulent; malignant.
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Involving high risk for potentially high reward.
an aggressive stock; an aggressive portfolio
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(US, qualifier:Black lesbian slang) Female but having a male or masculine gender presentation; butch.
For quotations using this term, see Citations:aggressive.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| more aggressive | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic | |
| most aggressive | Degree=Sup | lexicographic |
Antonyms
Deriveds
microaggressive · hyperaggressive · aggressiveness · aggressive mimicry · overaggressive · passive-aggressive · aggressivity · nonaggressive · alloaggressive · aggressivist · autoaggressive · aggressively · deaggressivization · aggressivism · superaggressive · unaggressive · antiaggressive
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Translations (96)
sh nasilan (tending or disposed to aggress) · be агрэсы́ўны (tending or disposed to aggress) · ko 침략적인 (tending or disposed to aggress) · pl agresywny (tending or disposed to aggress) · lv agresīvs (tending or disposed to aggress) · cs agresivní (tending or disposed to aggress) · ja 攻撃的な (tending or disposed to aggress) · bg агреси́вен (tending or disposed to aggress) · ga ionsaitheach (tending or disposed to aggress) · el επιθετικός (tending or disposed to aggress) · mi kairiri (tending or disposed to aggress) · ar عُدْوَانِيّ (tending or disposed to aggress) · mk агресивен (tending or disposed to aggress) · sq agresiv (tending or disposed to aggress) · fa ستیزجو (tending or disposed to aggress) · km ឈ្លានពាន (tending or disposed to aggress) · ja 侵略的な (tending or disposed to aggress) · mn түрэмгий (tending or disposed to aggress) · cmn 好戰的 /好战的 (tending or disposed to aggress) · ko 공격적인 (tending or disposed to aggress) · fi aggressiivinen (tending or disposed to aggress) · cs útočný (tending or disposed to aggress) · cmn 侵略的 (tending or disposed to aggress) · cmn 愛尋釁的 /爱寻衅的 (tending or disposed to aggress) · mi rīrā (Spreading rapidly of a disease or tumour) · hi आक्रामक (tending or disposed to aggress) · he מתגרה (tending or disposed to aggress) · hi दंगली (tending or disposed to aggress) · sh nasrtljiv (tending or disposed to aggress) · mi whakaariki (tending or disposed to aggress) · ru вои́нственный (tending or disposed to aggress) · pt agressivo (tending or disposed to aggress) · sv aggressiv (tending or disposed to aggress) · sh насилан (tending or disposed to aggress) · sk agresívny (tending or disposed to aggress) · de angriffslustig (tending or disposed to aggress) · vi xâm lược (tending or disposed to aggress) · ms agresif (tending or disposed to aggress) · lt agresyvus (tending or disposed to aggress) · sk útočný (tending or disposed to aggress) · mt aggressiv (tending or disposed to aggress) · tr saldırgan (tending or disposed to aggress) · ar هُجُومِيّ (tending or disposed to aggress) · kea agresivu (tending or disposed to aggress) · ru агресси́вный (tending or disposed to aggress) · ka აგრესიული (tending or disposed to aggress) · sh насртљив (tending or disposed to aggress) · cmn 好鬥 /好斗 (tending or disposed to aggress) · la pugnax (tending or disposed to aggress) · oc agressiu (tending or disposed to aggress) · kea agresive (tending or disposed to aggress) · fi hyökkäävä (tending or disposed to aggress) · hy ագրեսիվ (tending or disposed to aggress) · grc ἐπιθετικός (tending or disposed to aggress) · uk агреси́вний (tending or disposed to aggress) · th ออกตัวแรง (tending or disposed to aggress) · hi आक्रमणकारक (tending or disposed to aggress) · ca agressiu (tending or disposed to aggress) · eo agresema (tending or disposed to aggress) · pap agresivo (tending or disposed to aggress) · kix tìehtìeh (aggressive behavior) · bg напада́телен (tending or disposed to aggress) · th ก้าวร้าว (tending or disposed to aggress) · hi धक्कामार (tending or disposed to aggress) · sh агресиван (tending or disposed to aggress) · gd ionnsaigheach (tending or disposed to aggress) · pl napastliwy (tending or disposed to aggress) · ga amasach (tending or disposed to aggress) · no aggressiv (tending or disposed to aggress) · sh agresivan (tending or disposed to aggress) · ast agresivu (tending or disposed to aggress) · fr agressif (tending or disposed to aggress) · la aggressivus (tending or disposed to aggress) · qu phiña (tending or disposed to aggress) · it aggressivo (tending or disposed to aggress) · de aggressiv (tending or disposed to aggress) · ro agresiv (tending or disposed to aggress) · nl agressief (tending or disposed to aggress) · es agresivo (tending or disposed to aggress) · gl agresivo (tending or disposed to aggress) · sl nasilen (tending or disposed to aggress) · tl mabalagsik (tending or disposed to aggress) · tr agresif (tending or disposed to aggress) · cy gormesol (tending or disposed to aggress) · uk войови́тий (tending or disposed to aggress) · da aggressiv (tending or disposed to aggress) · uk войовни́чий (tending or disposed to aggress) · be ваяўні́чы (tending or disposed to aggress) · id agresif (tending or disposed to aggress) · az aqressiv (tending or disposed to aggress) · yi אַגרעסיוו (tending or disposed to aggress) · hu agresszív (tending or disposed to aggress) · et kallaletungiv (tending or disposed to aggress) · pl wojowniczy (tending or disposed to aggress) · hi जंगी (tending or disposed to aggress) · af aggressief (tending or disposed to aggress)