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Definition of Aggressive
Aggressive

Tending or disposed to aggress; characterized by aggression; making assaults; unjustly attacking; as, an aggressive policy, war, person, nation.

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Aggressive Quotations

There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define; we can grasp them only in the depths of our perceptive spirit.
Ansel Adams

Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive.
Margaret Mead

In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way.
Alan Watts

A man who is not afraid is not aggressive, a man who has no sense of fear of any kind is really a free, a peaceful man.
Jiddu Krishnamurti

For, behind the scenes, halfway around the world in Mexico, were two decades of aggressive research on wheat that not only enabled Mexico to become self-sufficient with respect to wheat production but also paved the way to rapid increase in its production in other countries.
Norman Borlaug

The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man.
Marshall McLuhan

No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
Simone de Beauvoir

The bashful are always aggressive at heart.
Charles Horton Cooley

People think our music's very aggressive or angry or whatever, and it's just the opposite, really... I like laughing. And I like being really calm before a show, and smiley.
Serj Tankian

A virulent, aggressive minority has decided that Americans don't know themselves what it is they should see, and need to be protected by people who are wiser than they are, even if they are only a tiny sliver of the population.
Jock Sturges

Aggressive Translations

aggressive in Dutch is agressief
aggressive in French is belliqueux
aggressive in German is angriffslustig
aggressive in Italian is bellicoso
aggressive in Latin is infestus
aggressive in Spanish is agresivo
aggressive in Swedish is aggressiv


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