aggressive
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
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Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd
Proto-Italic *ad
Proto-Italic *ad-
Latin ad-
Proto-Indo-European *gʰredʰ-der.
Latin gradior
Latin aggredior
Latin aggressuslbor.
English aggress
Proto-Indo-European *-wós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder.
Latin -īvus
Old French -ifbor.
Middle English -yf
English -ive
English aggressive
From aggress + -ive. Compare with French agressif.
Base: aggress
Affixes: -ive
Inflected forms:
form: more aggressive
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most aggressive
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: aggressives
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Characterized by aggression; highly combative; prone to behave in a way that involves attacking (especially if unjustly) or arguing.
pos: adj
examples: an aggressive policy, war, person, nation
When a new aggressive fish is added to an aquarium with an already-established, territorial fish, the established fish will probably fight to protect its territory (the whole tank).
This highly-aggressive approach had results, but briefly caused a major uproar in parts of the United States, which was mitigated by the Webster–Ashburton Treaty in 1842, which formalised the U.S. Navy's contribution to the antislavery efforts.
gloss: Exploiting every opportunity to be applied.
pos: adj
tags: especially
examples: This paper describes how aggressive loop unrolling is done in a retargetable optimizing compiler.
Since the most aggressive type of optimization a program can be subjected to is parallelization, understanding a program before attempting to parallelize it is a very important step.
However, aggressive compiler techniques such as loop unrolling, promoting of subscripted array variables into registers (especially in of subscripted array variables into registers (especially in loops) and interprocedural optimizations create heavy register pressure and it is still quite important to do a good job of register allocation.
The Itanium processor is an example of an Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing (EPIC) architecture and thus relies on aggressive and expensive compiler optimizations for performance.
This sensibly eases the programmer task and allows for more aggressive optimisations of the global program structure.
The CUDA C code for the GPU, as well as the C and inline assembly code for the CPU, were highly optimized and aggressive compiler optimizations (-O4) were turned on.
gloss: That spreads quickly or extensively; virulent; malignant.
pos: adj
gloss: Involving high risk for potentially high reward.
pos: adj
examples: an aggressive stock; an aggressive portfolio
gloss: Female but having a male or masculine gender presentation; butch.
pos: adj
tags: US
examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:aggressive.
gloss: One who is aggressive.
pos: noun
gloss: A (Black) woman who presents as masculine; a butch.
pos: noun
tags: US
examples: [...]; usually the femme is the ho [at the costume party], and the butch/aggressive is the pimp. [...] An aggressive is a masculine-identified woman like the category of butch; aggressive is the contemporary term among younger masculine-identified women.
Antonyms: passive
Related words: aggression
aggressor
Derived words: aggressively
aggressive mimicry
aggressiveness
aggressivism
aggressivist
aggressivity
alloaggressive
antiaggressive
autoaggressive
deaggressivization
hyperaggressive
microaggressive
nonaggressive
overaggressive
passive-aggressive
superaggressive
unaggressive
Translations:
lang: Māori
word: rīrā