adj
Meaning 1
Boldly self-assured; confident without being aggressive.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
assertive
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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General-American: /əˈsɝtɪv/
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adj
Meaning 2
Pungent.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- an assertive taste or odor
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective
Meaning 3
aggressively self-assured
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- an energetic assertive boy who was always ready to argue
- pointing directly at a listener is an assertive act
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: self-asserting, self-assertive
Antonyms: unassertive
History
Etymology
Borrowed from Medieval Latin assertīvus. Synchronically analyzable as assert + -ive.
Across languages
Translations
52 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: самоуверен (samouveren) — boldly self-assured
- Bulgarian: настоятелен (nastojatelen) — boldly self-assured
- Bulgarian: напорист (naporist) — boldly self-assured
- Catalan: assertiu — boldly self-assured
- Czech: asertivní — boldly self-assured
- Czech: průbojný — boldly self-assured
- Czech: kategorický — boldly self-assured
- Czech: rozhodný — boldly self-assured
- Czech: důrazný — boldly self-assured
- Danish: assertiv — boldly self-assured
- Danish: selvsikker — boldly self-assured
- Dutch: assertief — boldly self-assured
- Dutch: mondig — boldly self-assured
- Esperanto: ordonema — boldly self-assured
- Finnish: itsevarma — boldly self-assured
- Finnish: jämäkkä — boldly self-assured
- French: assuré — boldly self-assured
- French: assertif — boldly self-assured
- Galician: asertivo — boldly self-assured
- German: assertiv — boldly self-assured
- German: selbstbewusst — boldly self-assured
- German: durchsetzungsfähig — boldly self-assured
- German: bestimmt — boldly self-assured
- German: affirmativ — boldly self-assured
- German: bejahend — boldly self-assured
- German: positiv — boldly self-assured
- German: zuversichtlich — boldly self-assured
- German: forsch — boldly self-assured
- German: herausfordernd — boldly self-assured
- German: dogmatisch — boldly self-assured
- German: auffallend — boldly self-assured
- Hebrew: אַסֶרְטִיבִי (asertívi) — boldly self-assured
- Irish: forránach — boldly self-assured
- Italian: assertivo — boldly self-assured
- Macedonian: самоу́верен (samoúveren) — boldly self-assured
- Macedonian: у́тврден (útvrden) — boldly self-assured
- Māori: hikareia — boldly self-assured
- Norwegian Bokmål: fremoverlent — boldly self-assured
- Polish: pewny siebie — boldly self-assured
- Polish: pewny swego — boldly self-assured
- Polish: asertywny — boldly self-assured
- Portuguese: assertivo — boldly self-assured
- Portuguese: firme — boldly self-assured
- Romanian: asertiv — boldly self-assured
- Russian: напо́ристый (napóristyj) — boldly self-assured
- Russian: самоуве́ренный (samouvérennyj) — boldly self-assured
- Russian: утверди́тельный (utverdítelʹnyj) — boldly self-assured
- Scottish Gaelic: dian-bhriathrach — boldly self-assured
- Spanish: asertivo — boldly self-assured
- Spanish: aseverativo — boldly self-assured
- Turkish: iddialı — boldly self-assured
- Ukrainian: асертивний (asertyvnyj) — boldly self-assured