Need another word that means the same as “assertive”? Find 21 synonyms and 30 related words for “assertive” in this overview.
The synonyms of “Assertive” are: self-asserting, self-assertive, confident, forceful, self-confident, positive, bold, decisive, assured, self-assured, self-possessed, authoritative, strong-willed, insistent, firm, determined, commanding, bullish, dominant, domineering, assaultive
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “assertive” as an adjective can have the following definitions:
| assaultive | Aggressive or forcefully assertive. They found that assaultive men had abusive parents. |
| assured | Protected against discontinuance or change. She paints with an assured hand. |
| authoritative | Able to be trusted as being accurate or true; reliable. An authoritative source. |
| bold | Very steep; having a prominent and almost vertical front. A bold speech. |
| bullish | Confident or optimistic about something. High points in the stock market cycle when investors are at their most bullish. |
| commanding | (of a place or position) dominating from above; giving a wide view of an area. A commanding officer. |
| confident | Feeling or showing certainty about something. A confident reply. |
| decisive | Determining or having the power to determine an outcome. Had a decisive lead in the polls. |
| determined | Having been learned or found or determined especially by investigation. Date and place are already determined. |
| dominant | Denoting the predominant species in a plant or animal community. They are now in an even more dominant position in the market. |
| domineering | Asserting one’s will over another in an arrogant way. How can I do my job with a domineering boss yelling in my ear. |
| firm | Marked by firm determination or resolution not shakable. His voice was firm and confident. |
| forceful | Forceful and definite in expression or action. A forceful speaker. |
| insistent | Demanding attention- H.L.Mencken. She was very insistent that I call her. |
| positive | Having a positive charge. A positive benefit. |
| self-asserting | Aggressively self-assured. |
| self-assertive | Offensively self assertive. |
| self-assured | Showing poise and confidence in your own worth. |
| self-confident | Showing poise and confidence in your own worth. |
| self-possessed | In full control of your faculties. |
| strong-willed | Having a determined will. |
| accent | Put stress on utter with an accent. Short fortissimo accents. |
| accentuate | Put stress on; utter with an accent. His jacket unfortunately accentuated his paunch. |
| arrogant | Having or revealing an exaggerated sense of one’s own importance or abilities. Arrogant claims. |
| autocratic | Relating to a ruler who has absolute power. The constitutional reforms threatened his autocratic power. |
| brash | Self-assertive in a rude, noisy, or overbearing way. The cafe was a brash new building. |
| categorical | Unambiguously explicit and direct. A categorical denial. |
| cavalier | A dashing and attentive man, especially one acting as a lady’s escort. Anne was irritated by his cavalier attitude. |
| confident | Feeling or showing certainty about something. I am not very confident about tonight s game. |
| despotic | Of or typical of a despot; tyrannical. His administration was arrogant and despotic. |
| dictatorial | Having or showing an autocratic manner. His mother in law was somewhat dictatorial. |
| domineering | Tending to domineer. How can I do my job with a domineering boss yelling in my ear. |
| emphasis | Intensity or forcefulness of expression. His emphasis on civil rights. |
| emphasized | Spoken with emphasis. |
| emphatic | An emphatic consonant. The document contained a particularly emphatic guarantee of religious liberty. |
| emphatically | In a forceful way. She closed the door behind her emphatically. |
| forceful | Forceful and definite in expression or action. A forceful personality. |
| fortified | Secured with bastions or fortifications. Fortified breakfast cereals. |
| haughty | Having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy. A look of haughty disdain. |
| headstrong | Energetically wilful and determined. The headstrong impulsiveness of youth. |
| highlight | Create highlights in hair. Gary Lineker presents the highlights of today s semi final. |
| imperative | The imperative mood. Free movement of labour was an economic imperative. |
| imperious | Having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy. His imperious demands. |
| oppressive | Weighing heavily on the senses or spirit. An oppressive dictatorship. |
| overbearing | Expecting unquestioning obedience. Insufferably overbearing behavior toward the waiter. |
| peremptory | Offensively self-assured or given to exercising usually unwarranted power. Peremptory commands. |
| stressed | Strengthened by the application of stress during manufacture prestressed. Elision after a stressed syllable. |
| strong | Relating to or denoting the strongest of the known kinds of force between particles which acts between nucleons and other hadrons when closer than about 10 cm so binding protons in a nucleus despite the repulsion due to their charge and which conserves strangeness parity and isospin. A strong radio signal. |
| strongly | In a forceful or heartfelt way; firmly. The wheels are strongly made. |
| supercilious | Having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy. His mother eyed my clothes with a supercilious air. |
| tyrannical | Characteristic of an absolute ruler or absolute rule; having absolute sovereignty. A tyrannical parent. |
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