Assertive

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Assertive \As*sert"ive\, a.
     Positive; affirming confidently; affirmative; peremptory.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           In a confident and assertive form.       --Glanvill.
     [1913 Webster] {As*sert"ive*ly}, adv. -- {As*sert"ive*ness},


     n.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  assertive
       adj 1: inclined to bold and confident assertion; aggressively
              self-assured; "an energetic assertive boy who was
              always ready to argue"; "pointing directly at a
              listener is an assertive act" [ant: {unassertive}]
       2: confidently aggressive; "too assertive as a salesman"; "his
          self-assertive and unflagging energy" [syn: {self-asserting},
           {self-assertive}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  27 Moby Thesaurus words for "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