Definitions for assertive

assertive as·ser·tive

Spelling: [uh-sur-tiv]
IPA: /əˈsɜr tɪv/

Assertive is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 482 anagrams from letters in assertive (aeeirsstv).

Definitions for assertive

adjective

  1. confidently aggressive or self-assured; positive: aggressive; dogmatic:
  2. having a distinctive or pronounced taste or aroma.

Origin of assertive

First recorded in 1555-65; assert + -ive

Examples for assertive

He was a slender fellow with close-clipped, assertive red hair.

His paganism would be too assertive; it might even be in bad taste.

It tells me we need more women, and men, to raise their girls the way my parents raised me: to be assertive, confident and proud.

When a shy person decides to be assertive, they go over the top.

Instead they were becoming an assertive voice on the streets, and also online, for their rights.

This assertive Briton has no desire to lose identity in "Brahm."

There was in them something else, or more, than the assertive grossness of life.

He irritated the older men by his assertive manner, and his cocksureness.

He would recognize the angry, assertive tone of comments on web articles as the exact same tendency he identified in 1929.

And, in all fairness to Lady Gaga, any singer who matches up with Tony Bennett needs to get loud and assertive.

Word Value for assertive
Scrable

12

Words with friends

13

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