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Confrontational; tending or seeming to assault; characterized by assault..
an assaultive patient; an assaultive incident
1852, “A Dish of Willis,” review of Nathaniel Parker Willis, Pencillings by the Way, in Church’s Bizarre: For Fireside and Wayside, New Series, Part 12, 18 September, 1852, p. 367, […] we must say, that depreciatory judgments and assaultive criticism, are not only not to our taste, but especially ungrateful to our feelings.
For the most part, his rages in the past have been directed at authority figures—father, brother, Army sergeant, state parole officer—and have led to violent assaultive behavior on several occasions.
We live in an increasingly assaultive and noisy environment, and one may obtain the clearest histories of the provocative effects of this in some migraineurs.
As assaultive as "Made in U.S.A" can be, it also seems to have been made in a spirit of insouciance, improvisation and fun.
This man is not only very very sick, but I believe he is definitely a Potential Assaultive.
Extreme assaultives were operationally defined as those who were convicted of murder, manslaughter, or attempted murder. Moderate assaultives included persons convicted of wounding with intent to cause serious bodily harm, malicious or unlawful wounding, and assault.
Use assaultive when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Assaultive means Confrontational; tending or seeming to assault; characterized by assault..
Common synonyms include offensive, attacking.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
an assaultive patient; an assaultive incident
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