aggressive

adjective

grammatical mood in the Finnish language, expressing negation or rejection
tending toward or exhibiting aggression
forceful

Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /əˈɡɹɛs.ɪv/

adj

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.

Characterized by aggression; highly combative; prone to behave in a way that involves attacking (especially if unjustly) or arguing.
“an aggressive policy, war, person, nation”
“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).”
Exploiting every opportunity to be applied.
“This paper describes how aggressive loop unrolling is done in a retargetable optimizing compiler.”
“Since 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.”
That spreads quickly or extensively; virulent; malignant.
Involving high risk for potentially high reward.
“an aggressive stock; an aggressive portfolio”
Female but having a male or masculine gender presentation; butch.
“For quotations using this term, see Citations:aggressive.”

noun

One who is aggressive.
A (Black) woman who presents as masculine; a butch.
“[...]; usually the femme is the ho [at the costume party], and the butch/aggressive is the pimp. [...] An aggressive is a masculine-identified woman like the category of butch; aggressive is the contemporary term among younger masculine-identified women.”