Aggressive
Antonyms of AGGRESSIVE
- ambiguous, complaisant, compliant, cringing, reserved, hesitant, ingratiating, good-tempered, diffident, easy-going, mousy, groveling, kindly, confined, subservient, wishy-washy, unassertive, unenterprising, pleasant, obliging, subdued, unemphatic, benign, serene, dull, servile, relaxed, sociable, cowering, obsequious, equivocal, timid, inactive, passive, gentle, unaggressive, slow, meek, docile, calm, Nonemphatic, mild, guarded, tractable, nonassertive, nonbelligerent, slavish, understated, good-natured, amenable, deferential, ambitionless, overmodest, bashful, acquiescent, impotent, weak, quiet, apathetic, shrinking, unobtrusive, tranquil, kindhearted, submissive, shy, halting, lethargic, yielding, easygoing, uncompelling, resigned, laid-back, affable, amiable, benevolent, unambitious, unwarlike, idle, gracious, retiring.
Examples of usage:
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In her white cap and bathing suit she looked like a pet white mouse in charge of a dark and aggressive field mouse. "The Underpup" by I. A. R. Wylie
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" You are turning ungrateful early," said Eve, deeply hurt, not so much by Cerizet's grumbling as by his coarse tone, threatening attitude, and aggressive stare; " you will get on in life." "Eve and David" by Honore de Balzac
