self-assertive

determined to advance one's own personality or views

Adjective

  1. determined to advance one's own personality or views

Origin

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *swé? Proto-Indo-European *selbʰ-der. Proto-Germanic *selbaz Old English self Old English self- Middle English self- English self- English assertive English self-assertive From self- + assertive.

Forms

more self-assertive most self-assertive

Related

self-assertion brash

Derived

self-assertiveness