AGGRESSIVELY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does aggressively mean? 

• AGGRESSIVELY (adverb)
  The adverb AGGRESSIVELY has 1 sense:

1. in an aggressive manner

  Familiarity information: AGGRESSIVELY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AGGRESSIVELY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In an aggressive manner

Synonyms:

aggressively; sharply

Context example:

she was being sharply questioned

Pertainym:

aggressive (having or showing determination and energetic pursuit of your ends)

 Context examples 

Analyses suggest children who saw the movie containing guns also played more aggressively and sometimes fired the gun at people.

(Better Not to Show Kids Movies with Guns, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The first 8 weeks of treatment for tuberculosis during which the infection is treated aggressively with multiple drugs.

(Intensive Phase, NCI Thesaurus)

These neoplasms grow rapidly, invade extensively and aggressively.

(Mouse Glioblastoma, NCI Thesaurus/MMHCC)

“Anything to say?” the other demanded aggressively.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Glioblastomas grow aggressively from a mass of unspecialized cells; ZIKV is known to infect similar cells in the nervous systems of developing fetuses.

(Zika virus selectively infects and kills glioblastoma cells in mice, National Institutes of Health)

Later, at the piano, she played for him, and at him, aggressively, with the vague intent of emphasizing the impassableness of the gulf that separated them.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The Duke’s beard had turned more aggressively red than ever against his ghastly white face.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Don’t aggressively pursue your raise in early November.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Don't speed or drive aggressively.

(Motor Vehicle Safety, NIH)

I think the message from this finding is that if you've had a heart attack and you're overweight or mildly obese, you shouldn't necessarily try to lose weight aggressively in the initial period after the heart attack.

(Mildly Obese Fare Better after Major Heart Attack, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)