Agressive vs Militant - What's the difference?
agressive | militant |
Fighting or disposed to fight; belligerent, warlike.
* 2012 , (Christopher Clark), The Sleepwalkers , Penguin 2013, p. 394:
Aggressively supporting of a political or social cause; adamant, combative.
(obsolete) A soldier, a combatant.
An entrenched or aggressive adherent to a particular cause, now especially a member of a particular ideological faction.
* 2008', '' , Wikinews:
Specifically, someone who supports the Trotskyite political view expressed in the newspaper Militant , or who engages in aggressive left-wing politics.
As adjectives the difference between agressive and militant
is that agressive is while militant is fighting or disposed to fight; belligerent, warlike.As a noun militant is
(obsolete) a soldier, a combatant.agressive
Not English
Agressive has no English definition. It may be misspelled.English words similar to 'agressive':
accresce, accourage, aggregate, aggressive, acierage, aggerose, acrospire, akaryocyte, acaricide, ascaricide, accrease, ascaroside, accurize, acrosome, aggresome, achroacyte, acrospore, accurise, acrosswisemilitant
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The upper tiers of the foreign ministry were quick to embrace a militant policy.
Noun
(wikipedia militant) (en noun)- Officials in Pakistan have confirmed that at least 250 schoolchildren between 12 and 18 years old and several teachers were taken hostage by at least seven militants inside a high school in Domail.