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assaultive

adj

Etymology

From assault + -ive.

  1. derived from ad — “at, towards”
  2. derived from assalio
  3. inherited from assaut
  4. suffixed as assaultive — “assault + ive”

Definitions

  1. Confrontational

    Confrontational; tending or seeming to assault; characterized by assault.

    • an assaultive patient; an assaultive incident
    • For the most part, his rages in the past have been directed at authority figures—father, brother, Army sergeant, state parole officer—and have led to violent assaultive behavior on several occasions.

  2. A person who assaults others.

    • This man is not only very very sick, but I believe he is definitely a Potential Assaultive.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA