overaggressive
Overly aggressive; of a personality, action or behavior having excessive aggression.
Adjective
- Overly aggressive; of a personality, action or behavior having excessive aggression.
- An American had meant to him an overaggressive boor; but in this young Morton he found as fine a gentleman as even he could wish for, a man also without the flaws of artificial mannerisms. - 1916, D. George Dery, Under...
- If the field agent who finds himself in this situation has still in him a trace of the same attitude shown by the man with whom he is dealing—that of suspicion and an overaggressive determination not to be imposed...
- Aggressiveness is perhaps the quality around which most danger centres—it is the thin ice of salesmanship. The line that divides the spineless man from the bulldog type is not well defined. “Fools rush in where angels...
Origin
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *úp Proto-Indo-European *-er Proto-Indo-European *upér Proto-Germanic *uber Old English ofer- Middle English over- English over- 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 English overaggressive From over- + aggressive.