Antonyms of adj unaggressive

1 sense of unaggressive

Sense 1
unaggressive (vs. aggressive), nonaggressive -- (not aggressive; not given to fighting or assertiveness)

aggressive (vs. unaggressive) -- (having or showing determination and energetic pursuit of your ends; "an aggressive businessman"; "an aggressive basketball player"; "he was aggressive and imperious; positive in his convictions"; "aggressive drivers")
        => battleful, bellicose, combative -- (having or showing a ready disposition to fight; "bellicose young officers"; "a combative impulse"; "a contentious nature")
        => competitive, militant -- (showing a fighting disposition; "highly competitive sales representative"; "militant in fighting for better wages for workers"; "his self-assertive and ubiquitous energy")
        => hard-hitting, high-pressure -- (aggressively and persistently persuasive; "a hard-hitting advertising campaign"; "a high-pressure salesman")
        => hostile -- (unsolicited and resisted by the management of the target company ( used of attempts to buy or take control of a business); "hostile takeover"; "hostile tender offer"; "hostile bid")
        => in-your-face -- (blatantly aggressive; "on-line hard-boiled in-your-face pornography")
        => obstreperous -- (boisterously and noisily aggressive; "kept up an obstreperous clamor")
        => predatory, rapacious, raptorial, ravening, vulturine, vulturous -- (living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey; "a predatory bird"; "the rapacious wolf"; "raptorial birds"; "ravening wolves"; "a vulturine taste for offal")
        => pugnacious, rough -- (ready and able to resort to force or violence; "pugnacious spirits...lamented that there was so little prospect of an exhilarating disturbance"- Herman Melville; "they were rough and determined fighting men")
        => scrappy -- (full of fighting spirit; "a scrappy admiral")
        => truculent -- (defiantly aggressive; "a truculent speech against the new government")

Similarity of adj unaggressive

1 sense of unaggressive

Sense 1
unaggressive (vs. aggressive), nonaggressive -- (not aggressive; not given to fighting or assertiveness)
       => low-pressure -- (not forceful; "a low-pressure salesman"; "a low-pressure campaign")
          Also See-> peaceful#1, peaceable#2; unassertive#1

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