go-aheadative

adjective

Energetic; animated; tending to push forward with ideas or projects.

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Meanings

adjectivego-aheadative (comparative more go-aheadative, superlative most go-aheadative)

comparative more go-aheadative · superlative most go-aheadative

  1. archaicinformalEnergetic; animated; tending to push forward with ideas or projects.

    In fact, his mother, who was energetic and go-aheadative, declared […]

    1875, Peterson's Magazine, volumes 67-68, page 202
    2 more examples

    […] accompanied […] by an essay from an American resident here towards discovering the source of its amazing go-aheadative powers […]

    1840, John I. Knight, Mechanics Magazine, volume 33, page 73

    […] under the influence of tea; which, my dear reader, accounts for the go-aheadative propensities of Young America […]

    1858, The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review, page 575

Origin

From go ahead + -ative.

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Chicago

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