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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective assertive has 1 sense
- assertive(a = adj.all) self-asserting, self-assertive - aggressively self-assured; "an energetic assertive boy who was always ready to argue"; "pointing directly at a listener is an assertive act" Derived forms verb assert3, noun assertiveness1
Antonym: unassertive
CIDE DICTIONARY
assertive, a.
Positive; affirming confidently; affirmative; peremptory. [1913 Webster]
"In a confident and assertive form."
[1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
assertive, adj.
1 tending to assert oneself; forthright, positive.
2 dogmatic.
1 tending to assert oneself; forthright, positive.
2 dogmatic.
Derivative
assertively adv. assertiveness n.
THESAURUS
assertive
absolute, affirmative, affirmatory, aggressive, assertative, assertional, bold, bossy, certain, confident, decided, declarative, declaratory, definite, doctrinaire, dogmatic, domineering, emphatic, firm, insistent, opinionated, peremptory, positive, predicational, predicative, pushy, sure
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