Synonyms for self-assertive

Grammar : Adj

Spell : self-uh-sur-shuhn, self-

Phonetic Transcription : ˈsɛlf əˈsɜr ʃən, ˌsɛlf-

Définition of self-assertive

Origin : 1853, from self- + assertive. Related: Self-assertively; self-assertiveness.

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Example sentences :

Strong for his years and self-assertive, the boys feared him.
Extract from : « The Hunted Outlaw » by Anonymous

You need for a wife some one not too self-assertive, and who believes in you.
Extract from : « Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905 » by Various

His was a firm mind, sure of itself, but not self-assertive.
Extract from : « The Freelands » by John Galsworthy

To most of us he seemed too self-assertive, too self-assured.
Extract from : « On the Stairs » by Henry B. Fuller

But the tone more than the words was self-assertive, even arrogant.
Extract from : « Desert Conquest » by A. M. Chisholm

It was the most self-assertive speech he had ever heard her utter.
Extract from : « The Dull Miss Archinard » by Anne Douglas Sedgwick

A myna is a self-assertive bird, a bird that will stand no nonsense.
Extract from : « Birds of the Plains » by Douglas Dewar

A young pear-tree is about the least self-assertive of any of the tree-fruits.
Extract from : « The Pears of New York » by U. P. Hedrick

Not only are they not self-assertive, but they are actually gentle to the weak.
Extract from : « Short Studies in Ethics » by John Ormsby Miller

He was so shy that he did not move in Society as he might have done had he been self-assertive.
Extract from : « A Book of Ghosts » by Sabine Baring-Gould

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