Definitions
Confident and direct in expressing views or needs.
Word origin
Borrowed from Medieval Latin assertīvus. Synchronically analyzable as assert + -ive.
Used in a sentence
“Hence the ubiquity of Priapus himself as a sculptural representative of the generative principle, populated the Roman gardens, assertive in ithyphallic pose.”
“an assertive taste or odor”
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