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ag·gres·sive

 (ə-grĕs′ĭv)
adj.
1. Characterized by aggression: aggressive behavior.
2. Inclined to behave in an actively hostile fashion: an aggressive regime.
3. Assertive, bold, and energetic: an aggressive sales campaign.
4. Of or relating to an investment or approach to investing that seeks above-average returns by taking above-average risks.
5. Fast growing; tending to spread quickly and invade: an aggressive tumor.
6. Characterized by or inclined toward vigorous or intensive medical treatment: an aggressive approach to treating the infection.
7. Intense or harsh, as in color.

ag·gres′sive·ly adv.
ag·gres′sive·ness n.
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Adv.1.aggressively - in an aggressive manneraggressively - in an aggressive manner; "she was being sharply questioned"
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Translations
بِعِدَائِيَّة، بِعُدْوانِيَّه
agresivněútočně
erőszakosan
hörkulega, frekjulega
agresívne
napadalno
saldırgan bir şekilde

aggressively

[əˈgresɪvlɪ] ADV
1. (= belligerently) [behave, react] → agresivamente, de manera agresiva; [say] → con mucha agresividad
2. (= assertively) [trade, sell] → enérgicamente, con empuje; [play] → agresivamente
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

aggressively

[əˈgrɛsɪvli] adv
(= angrily) [act, react] → agressivement
(= forcefully) [compete, pursue] → avec dynamisme
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

aggressively

adv (= belligerently)aggressiv; (= forcefully)energisch; sellaggressiv
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

aggressively

[əˈgrɛsɪvlɪ] advaggressivamente
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

aggressive

(əˈgresiv) adjective
ready to attack or oppose; quarrelsome. He's a most aggressive boy – he is always fighting at school.
agˈgressively adverb
agˈgressiveness noun
agˈgression (-ʃən) noun
(a feeling of) hostility.
agˈgressor noun
(in a war etc) the party which attacks first.
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References in classic literature ?
Pete aggressively walked up a side aisle and took seats with Maggie at a table beneath the balcony.
At dinner Anna was in aggressively high spirits--she almost flirted both with Tushkevitch and with Yashvin.
He was not masked--there was too much life in him, and a mask is only a lifeless thing; but he presented himself essentially as an actor, as a human being aggressively disguised.
"Anything to say?" the other demanded aggressively.
"Well, why not?" demanded the old man, a little aggressively.
"May it please the court, the claim given the front place, the claim most persistently urged, the claim most strenuously and I may even say aggressively and defiantly insisted upon by the prosecution is this--that the person whose hand left the bloodstained fingerprints upon the handle of the Indian knife is the person who committed the murder." Wilson paused, during several moments, to give impressiveness to what he was about to say, and then added tranquilly, "WE GRANT THAT CLAIM."
Their hair was done very untidily, and they smelt aggressively of starched linen.
Later, at the piano, she played for him, and at him, aggressively, with the vague intent of emphasizing the impassableness of the gulf that separated them.
Marilla was a tall, thin woman, with angles and without curves; her dark hair showed some gray streaks and was always twisted up in a hard little knot behind with two wire hairpins stuck aggressively through it.
He was inclined to stoutness, but not unpardonably so; his hair was thin, but he was not aggressively bald; his face was dull, but certainly not stupid.
The Granger movement was at that time a strong political factor in the Middle West, and its blind fear of patents and "monopolies" was turned aggressively against the Bell Company.
When he found himself possessed of a coherent passage, he shook it at his audience almost aggressively, and then fumbled for another.