assertive

English

Etymology

From assert +‎ -ive.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /əˈsɝtɪv/

• Audio (US):

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Adjective

assertive (comparative more assertive, superlative most assertive)

1. Boldly self-assured; confident without being aggressive.

Derived terms

• assertively
• assertiveness
• hyperassertive
• nonassertive
• overassertive
• self-assertive
• subassertive
• unassertive
• underassertive

 

Translations

boldly self-assured

• Bulgarian: самоуверен (bg) (samouveren), настоятелен (bg) (nastojatelen), напорист (naporist)
• Catalan: assertiu (ca)
• Czech: asertivní, průbojný, kategorický (cs)
• Dutch: assertief (nl), mondig (nl)
• Esperanto: ordonema
• Finnish: itsevarma (fi), jämäkkä (fi)
• French: assuré (fr), assertif (fr)
• Galician: asertivo m
• German: assertiv (de), selbstbewusst (de), durchsetzungsfähig, bestimmt (de), affirmativ (de), bejahend (de), positiv (de), zuversichtlich (de), forsch (de), assertiv (de), herausfordernd (de), dogmatisch (de), auffallend (de)
• Hebrew: אַסֶרְטִיבִי (he) (asertívi)
• Irish: forránach
• Italian: assertivo (it)
• Macedonian: самоу́верен (samoúveren), у́тврден (útvrden)
• Maori: hikareia
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: fremoverlent (no)

• Polish: pewny siebie (pl) (in general), pewny swego (in a particular situation), asertywny (pl) (calque fashionable in psychology)
• Portuguese: assertivo (pt), firme (pt)
• Romanian: asertiv (ro)
• Russian: напо́ристый (ru) (napóristyj), самоуве́ренный (ru) (samouvérennyj), утверди́тельный (ru) (utverdítelʹnyj)
• Scottish Gaelic: dian-bhriathrach
• Spanish: categórico (es), enérgico (es), firme (es)
• Turkish: iddialı (tr)
• Ukrainian: асертивний m (asertyvnyj)

Anagrams

• sevirates

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.sɛʁ.tiv/
• Homophone: assertives

Adjective

assertive

1. feminine singular of assertif

German

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Adjective

assertive

1. inflection of assertiv:
   1. strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
   2. strong nominative/accusative plural
   3. weak nominative all-gender singular
   4. weak accusative feminine/neuter singular

Italian

Adjective

assertive f pl

1. feminine plural of assertivo

Anagrams

• asservite, astersive, resisteva, tesseravi