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Adjective: assertive  u'sur-tiv
  1. Aggressively self-assured
    "an energetic assertive boy who was always ready to argue"; "pointing directly at a listener is an assertive act"; "an energetic self-assertive boy who was always ready to argue"
    - self-asserting, self-assertive

See also: aggressive, assert, assertively, assertiveness, cockatoo, cocky [Austral], emphatic, forceful, imperative

Antonym: unassertive

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