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pushy
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective pushy has 1 sense
- pushy(s = adj.all) pushful - marked by aggressive ambition and energy and initiative; "an aggressive young executive"; "a pushful insurance agent" Derived forms noun push3, noun pushiness1
OXFORD DICTIONARY
pushy, adj. (pushier, pushiest) colloq.
1 excessively or unpleasantly self-assertive.
2 selfishly determined to succeed.
1 excessively or unpleasantly self-assertive.
2 selfishly determined to succeed.
Derivative
pushily adv. pushiness n.
THESAURUS
pushy
adventuresome, adventurous, aggressive, ambitious, arrogant, assertive, audacious, bold, brash, brassy, brazen, bumptious, busy, busybody, cheeky, cocky, cold, controlled, contumelious, cool, disdainful, driving, dynamic, enterprising, familiar, firm-minded, forceful, forward, go-ahead, hubristic, hustling, impertinent, importunate, independent, inquisitive, insolent, insulting, loud, meddlesome, meddling, militant, nosy, obnoxious, obtrusive, offensive, officious, overpresumptuous, overweening, presuming, presumptuous, procacious, prying, pushful, pushing, self-appointed, self-asserting, self-assertive, self-controlled, self-expressive, self-possessed, self-restrained, showy, snoopy, strong-minded, strong-willed, up-and-coming, uppish, uppity, venturesome, venturous
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