Synonyms of the word

aggressiveness

• n. (uncountable) The state or quality of being aggressive.
• n. (uncountable) The propensity of a soil or water to dissolve metal or cement structures.
• n. (countable) The result or product of being aggressive.

aggression

• n. The act of initiating hostilities or invasion.
• n. The practice or habit of launching attacks.
• n. Hostile or destructive behavior or actions.

belligerence

• n. The state of being belligerent.

disagreeableness

• n. (uncountable) The state or quality of being disagreeable.
• n. (countable) A disagreeable behaviour, occurrence, etc.

drive

• n. Motivation to do or achieve something; ability coupled with ambition.
• n. Violent or rapid motion; a rushing onward or away; especially, a forced or hurried dispatch of business.
• n. An act of driving animals forward, such as to be captured, hunted etc.
• n. (military) A sustained advance in the face of the enemy to take a strategic objective.
• n. A motor that does not take fuel, but instead depends on a mechanism that stores potential energy for subsequent…
• n. A trip made in a motor vehicle.
• n. A driveway.
• n. A type of public roadway.
• n. (dated) A place suitable or agreeable for driving; a road prepared for driving.
• n. (psychology) Desire or interest.
• n. (computing) An apparatus for reading and writing data to or from a mass storage device such as a disk,…
• n. (computing) A mass storage device in which the mechanism for reading and writing data is integrated with…
• n. (golf) A stroke made with a driver.
• n. (baseball, tennis) A ball struck in a flat trajectory.
• n. (cricket) A type of shot played by swinging the bat in a vertical arc, through the line of the ball, and…
• n. (soccer) A straight level shot or pass.
• n. (American football) An offensive possession, generally one consisting of several plays and/ or first downs,…
• n. A charity event such as a fundraiser, bake sale, or toy drive.
• n. (typography) An impression or matrix formed by a punch drift.
• n. A collection of objects that are driven; a mass of logs to be floated down a river.
• v. (transitive) To impel or urge onward by force; to push forward; to compel to move on.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To direct a vehicle powered by a horse, ox or similar animal.
• v. (transitive) To cause animals to flee out of.
• v. (transitive) To move (something) by hitting it with great force.
• v. (transitive) To cause (a mechanism) to operate.
• v. (transitive, ergative) To operate (a wheeled motorized vehicle).
• v. (transitive) To motivate; to provide an incentive for.
• v. (transitive) To compel (to do something).
• v. (transitive) To cause to become.
• v. (intransitive, cricket, tennis, baseball) To hit the ball with a drive.
• v. (intransitive) To travel by operating a wheeled motorized vehicle.
• v. (transitive) To convey (a person, etc) in a wheeled motorized vehicle.
• v. (intransitive) To move forcefully.
• v. (intransitive) To be moved or propelled forcefully (especially of a ship).
• v. (transitive) To urge, press, or bring to a point or state.
• v. (transitive) To carry or to keep in motion; to conduct; to prosecute.
• v. (transitive) To clear, by forcing away what is contained.
• v. (mining) To dig horizontally; to cut a horizontal gallery or tunnel.
• v. (American football) To put together a drive (n.): to string together offensive plays and advance the ball…
• v. (obsolete) To distrain for rent.
• v. To be the dominant party where two people are engaged in a sex act.

enmity

• n. The quality of being an enemy; hostile or unfriendly disposition.
• n. A state or feeling of opposition, hostility, hatred or animosity.

hostility

• n. (uncountable) The state of being hostile.
• n. (countable) A hostile action, especially a military action. See hostilities for specific plural definition.

pugnacity

• n. The act or characteristic of being aggressive or combative.