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assertive Adjective confident and direct in dealing with others assertively adv
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assertive adjective confident, firm, demanding, decided, forward, can-do (informal) positive, aggressive, decisive, forceful, emphatic, insistent, feisty (informal), chiefly U.S., Canad. pushy (informal) in-your-face Brit. (slang) dogmatic, strong-willed, domineering, overbearing, self-assured << OPPOSITE meek Translations How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| 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. The change comes disturbingly, with the force of a sudden vocation, bringing in its train agonizing doubts, assertive violences, an unstable state of the soul, till the final appeasement of the convert in the perfect fierceness of conviction. |
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