Synonyms of the word

aggressive

• adj. Tending or disposed to aggress; characterized by aggression; making assaults; unjustly attacking.
• adj. (programming) Of code optimization techniques: exploiting every opportunity to be applied.

assertive

• adj. Boldly self-assured; confident without being aggressive.

bellicose

• adj. Warlike in nature; aggressive; hostile.
• adj. Showing or having the impulse to be combative.

belligerent

• adj. Engaged in warfare, warring.
• adj. Eager to go to war, warlike.
• adj. Of or pertaining to war.
• adj. (By extension) Aggressively hostile, eager to fight.
• adj. Acting violently towards others.
• adj. uncooperative.
• n. A state or other armed participant in warfare.

combative

• adj. Given to fighting; disposed to engage in combat; pugnacious.

competitive

• adj. (economics) capable of competing successfully.
• adj. of or pertaining to competition.
• adj. (of someone's character) inclined to compete.
• adj. (biochemistry) inhibiting the action of an enzyme by binding with it.
• adj. (euphemistically, of prices) cheap, especially used of quality products.

hard-hitting

• adj. Aggressively vigorous or forceful.

high-pressure

• adj. Operating with high pressures, such as several times atmospheric pressure but relative.
• adj. Tense, stressful.

hostile

• adj. Belonging or appropriate to an enemy; showing the disposition of an enemy; showing ill will and malevolence,…
• adj. Aggressive, antagonistic.
• adj. Of a hostile takeover.
• n. (chiefly in the plural) An enemy.

in-your-face

• adj. aggressively or blatantly confrontational.

invasive

• adj. That invades a foreign country using military force.
• adj. (of a plant or animal) That grows in environments which do not harbor natural enemes, often to the detriment…
• adj. (medicine) (of a carcinoma etc) That invades healthy tissue; (of a procedure) in which part of the body…
• adj. Intrusive on one's privacy.
• n. An invasive organism, as, a plant or animal.

militant

• adj. Fighting or disposed to fight; belligerent, warlike.
• adj. Aggressively supporting of a political or social cause; adamant, combative.
• n. (obsolete) A soldier, a combatant.
• n. An entrenched or aggressive adherent to a particular cause, now especially a member of a particular ideological…
• n. Specifically, someone who supports the Trotskyite political view expressed in the newspaper Militant,…

obstreperous

• adj. Attended by, or making, a loud and tumultuous noise; boisterous.
• adj. Stubbornly defiant; disobedient; resistant to authority or control, whether in a noisy manner or not.

offensive

• adj. Causing offense; arousing a visceral reaction of disgust, anger, or hatred.
• adj. Relating to an offense or attack, as opposed to defensive.
• adj. (team sports) Having to do with play directed at scoring.
• n. (countable, military) An attack.
• n. (uncountable) The posture of attacking or being able to attack.

predatory

• adj. Of, or relating to a predator.
• adj. Living by preying on other living animals.
• adj. (figuratively) Exploiting or victimizing others for personal gain.

pugnacious

• adj. Naturally aggressive or hostile; combative; belligerent; bellicose.

rapacious

• adj. Voracious; avaricious.
• adj. Given to taking by force or plundering; aggressively greedy.
• adj. (of an animal, usually a bird) Subsisting off live prey.

raptorial

• adj. Like or resembling a raptor.

ravening

• adj. Voracious and greedy.
• adj. (archaic) Subject to the voracity of a predator.
• n. (archaic, literary) Predation (of an animal); voracious eating or consumption.
• n. Eagerness for plunder; rapacity; extortion.

rough

• adj. Having a texture that has much friction. Not smooth; uneven.
• adj. Approximate; hasty or careless; not finished.
• adj. Turbulent.
• adj. Difficult; trying.
• adj. Crude; unrefined.
• adj. Violent; not careful or subtle.
• adj. Loud and hoarse; offensive to the ear; harsh; grating.
• adj. Not polished; uncut; said of a gem.
• adj. Harsh-tasting.
• n. The unmowed part of a golf course.
• n. A rude fellow; a coarse bully; a rowdy.
• n. (cricket) A scuffed and roughened area of the pitch, where the bowler's feet fall, used as a target by…
• n. The raw material from which faceted or cabochon gems are created.
• n. A quick sketch, similar to a thumbnail, but larger and more detailed. Meant for artistic brainstorming…
• n. (obsolete) Boisterous weather.
• v. To create in an approximate form.
• v. (ice hockey) To commit the offense of roughing, i.e. to punch another player.
• v. To render rough; to roughen.
• v. To break in (a horse, etc.), especially for military purposes.
• adv. In a rough manner; rudely; roughly.

scrappy

• adj. Consisting of scraps; fragmentary; lacking unity or consistency.
• adj. (informal) Having an aggressive spirit; inclined to fight or strive.

self-assertive

• adj. determined to advance one's own personality or views.

truculent

• adj. Cruel or savage.
• adj. Deadly or destructive.
• adj. Defiant or uncompromising.
• adj. Eager or quick to argue, fight or start a conflict.

vulturine

• adj. Pertaining to vultures.
• adj. Predaceous.

vulturous

• adj. Having the features of a vulture, especially in being rapacious, greedy, or scavenging.