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assertive

adj
/əˈsɝtɪv/US

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin assertīvus. Synchronically analyzable as assert + -ive.

  1. borrowed from assertīvus

Definitions

  1. Boldly self-assured

    Boldly self-assured; confident without being aggressive.

    • Hence the ubiquity of Priapus himself as a sculptural representative of the generative principle, populated the Roman gardens, assertive in ithyphallic pose.

  2. Pungent.

    • an assertive taste or odor

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Derived

assertively, assertiveness, hyperassertive, nonassertive, overassertive, self-assertive, subassertive, unassertive, underassertive

Vish — recursive loop

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

6 hops · closes at assertive

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

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