ASSERTIVE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does assertive mean? 

• ASSERTIVE (adjective)
  The adjective ASSERTIVE has 1 sense:

1. aggressively self-assured

  Familiarity information: ASSERTIVE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ASSERTIVE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Aggressively self-assured

Synonyms:

assertive; self-asserting; self-assertive

Context example:

pointing directly at a listener is an assertive act

Similar:

cocky (overly self-confident or self-assertive)

emphatic; forceful (forceful and definite in expression or action)

Also:

aggressive (having or showing determination and energetic pursuit of your ends)

imperative (requiring attention or action)

Antonym:

unassertive (inclined to timidity or lack of self-confidence)

Derivation:

assert (insist on having one's opinions and rights recognized)

assertiveness (aggressive self-assurance; given to making bold assertions)

 Context examples 

These activities involve facilitating service delivery on behalf of the client, communicating with health and human service providers, promoting assertive client communication, and guiding the client toward use of appropriate community resources.

(Case management nurse, NCI Thesaurus)

With the addition of Mars in your second house of income, you would be willing to take a strong, assertive stance to protect your income.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

He looked up at the assertive sign.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The eyes had narrowed till they were eagle-like, and Martin almost caught his breath as he noted the eagle beak with its dilated nostrils, defiant, assertive, aggressive.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

This chart for the moon landing is truly remarkable, for it revealed outstanding harmony among the planets, but especially, on that day, good-fortune Jupiter was conjunct Uranus and the transiting moon, all in air-sign Libra in the assertive and pioneering 0-degree of a cardinal sign (Libra).

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

For underneath Martin's awe lurked his assertive ego, and he felt the urge to measure himself with these men and women and to find out what they had learned from the books and life which he had not learned.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)