Meanings
comparative more aggressively · superlative most aggressively
- In an aggressive manner.
The service aggressively maintained its position until I produced evidence proving it was untrue - including a recording of one of the calls with a senior MI5 officer.
2025 July 6, Daniel De Simone, “How MI5 piled falsehood on falsehood in court in the case of a spy who abused women”, in BBC News, retrieved 06 Jul 20251 more example
Yes, there were instances of grandstanding and obsessive behaviour, but many were concealed at the time to help protect an aggressively peddled narrative of [Oscar] Pistorius the paragon, the emblem, the trailblazer.
2014 October 21, Oliver Brown, “Oscar Pistorius jailed for five years – sport afforded no protection against his tragic fallibilities: Bladerunner's punishment for killing Reeva Steenkamp is but a frippery when set against the burden that her bereft parents, June and Barry, must carry [print version: No room for sentimentality in this tragedy, 13 September 2014, p. S22]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Sport), archived from the original on 21 Oct 2014
Synonyms & antonyms
adverbin an aggressive manner
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂éd
- Proto-Italic*ad
- Proto-Italic*ad-
- Latinad-
- Proto-Indo-European*gʰredʰ-
- Latingradior
- Latinaggredior
- Latinaggressu
- Englishaggress
- Englishaggressive
- Proto-Indo-European*leyg-
- Proto-Germanic*līką
- Englishaggressively
From aggressive + -ly.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Catalan agressivament
- agressivamentin an aggressive manner
Czech agresivně, útočně
- agresivněin an aggressive manner
- útočněin an aggressive manner
Dutch agressief
- agressiefin an aggressive manner
Estonian agressiivselt
- agressiivseltin an aggressive manner
Finnish aggressiivisesti
- aggressiivisestiin an aggressive manner
Greek επιθετικά
- επιθετικά (epithetiká)in an aggressive manner
Hungarian erőszakosan
- erőszakosanin an aggressive manner
Italian aggressivamente
- aggressivamentein an aggressive manner
Japanese 攻撃的に, 侵略的に
- 攻撃的に (kōgekiteki ni)in an aggressive manner
- 侵略的に (shinryakuteki ni)in an aggressive manner
- 積極的に (sekkyokuteki ni)in an aggressive manner
Polish agresywnie
- agresywniein an aggressive manner
Portuguese agressivamente
- agressivamentein an aggressive manner
Romanian agresiv
- agresivin an aggressive manner
Russian агресси́вно
- агресси́вно (agressívno)in an aggressive manner
Spanish agresivamente
- agresivamentein an aggressive manner
Turkish agresif bir şekilde, agresif
- agresif bir şekildein an aggressive manner
- agresifin an aggressive manner
Ukrainian агреси́вно
- агреси́вно (ahresývno)in an aggressive manner
Cite this entry
aggressively. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/aggressively
“aggressively.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/aggressively. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “aggressively,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/aggressively.
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