pushful

Energetic; pushy.

Adjective

  1. Energetic; pushy.
    • All grades pass before you, from the pushful American commercial man interested in a patent medicine, to the proud Indian Rajah with his turbaned suite; from the variety actress to the daughter of a peer, or the wife of...
    • He met Gluck, who a little later was quite inaccessible to the most pushful of young men; also Dittersdorf and Wagenseil, who, whatever we may think of them, were very high and unapproachable musicians in their time. -...
    • 'Twas not by barking mortars that the pushful CAESAR scored; He trusted close formations and the silent stabbing sword. - 1917, Various, Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 153, Sept. 12, 1917:

Origin

From push + -ful.

Forms

more pushful most pushful

Derived

pushfully pushfulness