assertive

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

assertive
    adj 1: aggressively self-assured; "an energetic assertive boy
           who was always ready to argue"; "pointing directly at a
           listener is an assertive act" [syn: {assertive}, {self-
           asserting}, {self-assertive}] [ant: {unassertive}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Assertive \As*sert"ive\, a.
   Positive; affirming confidently; affirmative; peremptory.
   [1913 Webster]

         In a confident and assertive form.       --Glanvill.
   [1913 Webster] {As*sert"ive*ly}, adv. -- {As*sert"ive*ness},
   n.
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from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

27 Moby Thesaurus words for "assertive":
      absolute, affirmative, affirmatory, aggressive, assertative,
      assertional, bold, bossy, certain, confident, decided, declarative,
      declaratory, definite, doctrinaire, dogmatic, domineering,
      emphatic, firm, insistent, opinionated, peremptory, positive,
      predicational, predicative, pushy, sure

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