assertive

形容词 adj.
/əˈsɝtɪv/

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Boldly self-assured; confident without being aggressive.
    — Hence the ubiquity of Priapus himself as a sculptural representative of the generative principle, populated the Roman gardens, assertive in ithyphallic pose.
  2. Pungent.
    — an assertive taste or odor

词形变化

more assertive comparative most assertive superlative

词源

Borrowed from Medieval Latin assertīvus. Synchronically analyzable as assert + -ive.
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