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Confrontational; tending or seeming to assault; characterized by assault.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- an assaultive patient; an assaultive incident
- 1852, “A Dish of Willis,” review of Nathaniel Parker Willis, Pencillings by the Way, in Church’s Bizarre: For Fireside and Wayside, New Series, Part 12, 18 September, 1852, p. 367, [...] we must say, that depreciatory judgments and assaultive criticism, are not only not to our taste, but especially ungrateful to our feelings.
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A person who assaults others.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: criminology, human-sciences, law, medicine, psychiatry, psychology, sciences
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adjective satellite
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disposed to attack
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Etymology tree English assault Proto-Indo-European *-wós Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder. Latin -īvus Old French -ifbor. Middle English -yf English -ive English assaultive From assault + -ive.
