0 behaving in an angry and violent way towards another person: --
The stereotype is that men tend to be more aggressive than women.
1 determined to win or succeed and using forceful action to win or to achieve success: --
2 An aggressive disease is one that spreads quickly and has little chance of being cured: --
3 used to describe a very strong treatment for a serious condition: --
4 using strong, forceful methods esp. to sell or persuade: --
5 done in a very forceful and competitive way in order to gain an advantage: --
aggressive campaigns/strategies/tactics Britain’s second largest water company is planning an aggressive campaign to win industrial and business customers from rivals.
aggressive marketing/expansion/recruiting Through aggressive marketing in Europe and Asia, the company pulled in an extra $4.5 billion and doubled its share prices.
Our present-day encounters with unfamiliar males in the waking life are not predominantly aggressive.
Disorganized infant attachment classification and maternal psychosocial problems as predictors of hostile - aggressive behavior in the preschool classroom.
In the latter study, maternal proactive parenting practices with aggressive, disruptive 2-year-olds predicted fewer problems by kindergarten.
Rejection, on the other hand, is more cleanly linked with disruptive and aggressive behavior profiles and it is unrelated to prosocial ones.
Because our primary objective was to assess perceived containment among highly aggressive children, departures from a normal distribution are not particularly problematic.
In their study of aggressive adolescent boys in residential mental health treatment, the stimuli were facial expressions of others depicted in photos.
In the late 1990s, most actors favored aggressive monetary easing to address persistent deflation and slow growth.
However, maltreated children's resulting hypervigilance for aggressive stimuli may have deleterious effects on their information processing in nonthreatening conditions.
