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aggressive

adj
/əˈɡɹɛs.ɪv/US

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Proto-Indo-European *gʰredʰ-der. Latin gradior Latin aggredior Latin aggressuslbor. English aggress Proto-Indo-European *-wós Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder. Latin -īvus Old French -ifbor. Middle English -yf English -ive English aggressive From aggress + -ive. Compare with French agressif.

  1. learned borrowing from aggressum
  2. suffixed as aggressive — “aggress + ive”

Definitions

  1. Characterized by aggression

    Characterized by aggression; highly combative; prone to behave in a way that involves attacking (especially if unjustly) or arguing.

    • an aggressive policy, war, person, nation
    • When a new aggressive fish is added to an aquarium with an already-established, territorial fish, the established fish will probably fight to protect its territory (the whole tank).

  2. Exploiting every opportunity to be applied.

    • This paper describes how aggressive loop unrolling is done in a retargetable optimizing compiler.
    • Since the most aggressive type of optimization a program can be subjected to is parallelization, understanding a program before attempting to parallelize it is a very important step.

  3. That spreads quickly or extensively

    That spreads quickly or extensively; virulent; malignant.

  4. ›+ 4 more definitions

    1. Involving high risk for potentially high reward.

      • an aggressive stock; an aggressive portfolio

    2. Female but having a male or masculine gender presentation

      Female but having a male or masculine gender presentation; butch.

      • For quotations using this term, see Citations:aggressive.

    3. One who is aggressive.

    4. A (Black) woman who presents as masculine

      A (Black) woman who presents as masculine; a butch.

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Derived

aggressively, aggressive mimicry, aggressiveness, aggressivism, aggressivist, aggressivity, alloaggressive, antiaggressive, autoaggressive, hyperaggressive, microaggressive, nonaggressive, overaggressive, passive-aggressive, superaggressive, unaggressive

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at aggressive. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at aggressive. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at aggressive

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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