Pushful
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈpʊʃfʊl/ · Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Pushful is an adjective meaning Energetic; pushy.
Meaning
Energetic; pushy.
Example Sentences
'Twas not by barking mortars that the pushful CAESAR scored; He trusted close formations and the silent stabbing sword.
Buzzaway was one of the privileged (or pushful) people who were sometimes to be seen riding along a road beside the huntsman […]
He met Gluck, who a little later was quite inaccessible to the most pushful of young men; also Dittersdorf and Wagenseil, who, whatever we may think of them, were very high and unapproachable musicians in their time.
All grades pass before you, from the pushful American commercial man interested in a patent medicine, to the proud Indian Rajah with his turbaned suite; from the variety actress to the daughter of a peer, or the wife of a millionaire pork-butcher doing Europe.
Synonyms for pushful
Depending on context, synonyms include ambitious, aggressive, enterprising, pushy, pushing.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include pushy, aggressive, pushing, enterprising, ambitious, thrustful.
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