aggressiveness
侵略;攻勢
Ag·gres·sive a.
1. Tending or disposed to aggress; having or showing determination and energetic pursuit of one's own ends at the expense of others or mindless of others' needs or desires; characterized by aggression; making assaults; unjustly attacking; as, an aggressive policy, war, person, nation; an aggressive businessman; an aggressive basketball player; he was aggressive and imperious in his convictions; aggressive drivers. Opposite of unaggressive.
No aggressive movement was made. --Macaulay.
-- Ag*gres*sive*ly, adv. -- Ag*gres*sive*ness, n.
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aggressiveness
n 1: the quality of being bold and enterprising
2: a feeling of hostility that arouses thoughts of attack [syn:
aggression]
3: a disposition to fight [syn: contentiousness, belligerence,
pugnacity, quarrelsomeness]