assertive
adjUS /əˈsɝtɪv/
Etymology Borrowed from Medieval Latin assertīvus. Synchronically analyzable as assert + -ive.
1
Boldly self-assured; confident without being aggressive.
- Hence the ubiquity of Priapus himself as a sculptural representative of the generative principle, populated the Roman gardens, assertive in ithyphallic pose.1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page iii:
2
Pungent.
- an assertive taste or odor
- Derived terms
- assertively, assertiveness, hyperassertive, nonassertive, overassertive, self-assertive, subassertive, unassertive, underassertive
- Related terms
- assertative