Dictionary

aggressively en · ADV

Pronunciation

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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 Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-Germanic *-ê Proto-Germanic *-līkê Proto-West Germanic *-līkē Old English -līċe Middle English -ly English -ly English aggressively From aggressive + -ly.

Meanings

1. In an aggressive manner.
   • The service aggressively maintained its position until I produced evidence proving it was untrue - including a recording of one of the calls with a senior MI5 officer. 2025 July 6, Daniel De Simone, “How MI5 piled falsehood on falsehood in court in the case of a spy who abused women”, in BBC News, retrieved 06 Jul 2025:
   • Yes, there were instances of grandstanding and obsessive behaviour, but many were concealed at the time to help protect an aggressively peddled narrative of [Oscar] Pistorius the paragon, the emblem, the trailblazer. 2014 October 21, Oliver Brown, “Oscar Pistorius jailed for five years – sport afforded no protection against his tragic fallibilities: Bladerunner's punishment for killing Reeva Steenkamp is but a frippery when set against the burden that her bereft parents, June and Barry, must carry [print version: No room for sentimentality in this tragedy, 13 September 2014, p. S22]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Sport), archived from the original on 21 Oct 2014:

Forms

Deriveds

hyperaggressively · passive-aggressively

Relateds

aggress · aggression

Translations (21)

cs útočně (in an aggressive manner) · be агрэсі́ўна (in an aggressive manner) · ja 積極的に (in an aggressive manner) · es agresivamente (in an aggressive manner) · tr agresif (in an aggressive manner) · ca agressivament (in an aggressive manner) · ro agresiv (in an aggressive manner) · pl agresywnie (in an aggressive manner) · ja 侵略的に (in an aggressive manner) · pt agressivamente (in an aggressive manner) · fi aggressiivisesti (in an aggressive manner) · ja 攻撃的に (in an aggressive manner) · et agressiivselt (in an aggressive manner) · uk агреси́вно (in an aggressive manner) · cs agresivně (in an aggressive manner) · hu erőszakosan (in an aggressive manner) · el επιθετικά (in an aggressive manner) · tr agresif bir şekilde (in an aggressive manner) · nl agressief (in an aggressive manner) · it aggressivamente (in an aggressive manner) · ru агресси́вно (in an aggressive manner)