pushy
75
5.0
- adjective
- /ˈpʊʃi/
- Informal
:
insistente
- The sales associate was overly pushy, making me uncomfortable with his approach.
He wasn't aggressive or pushy, but he knew who he was.
- He wasn't aggressive or pushy, but he knew who he was.
- My parents were not like showbiz pushy, but they were supportive.
- When I was a young guy, you know, I was just pushy, obnoxious.
- I don't, you know, I wasn't too hungry, I wasn't too pushy.
- But yeah, they they every once in a while get really, really pushy.
- I think if somebody is being obnoxious or too pushy, that is certainly a way to sabotage yourself.
- And it's the non sleazy way, non pushy way of selling high end coaching mastermind mentorship programs.
- I just go through phases where I'm scared to go into Lush because they're very pushy, which is just part of the training.
- It's parents who are aggressively pushy.
- So believe in the thing you've got and work out who will need it and then go and talk to that person and don't be pushy because they want it.
- And so if that comes across as rude or pushy or impersonal, I'm sorry, but I'm not sorry.
- As long as they're nice and, you know, and not too pushy or anything like that.
- They they could be very kind of personal and kind of pushy and yeah, how would you, how would you forget to describe?
- And then because she's busy, you get mad at her and say that you're not responding to my text and you're just being overly pushy.
Examples
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Patti has always been pushy with her values, trying, with little luck, to play Big Sister.
Fiction book (1994) -
- Yeah I guess I'm just naturally pushy.
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Why are you so pushy?
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I am not being pushy.
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If Jason's mother was as pushy as his father, I thought, no wonder the boy wanted out.
Fiction book (1998) -
In fact, she had not liked the American one bit, finding her pushy, aggressive, and altogether too loud.
Fiction book (1995) -
He's one of those like pushy sports dads.
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I think if somebody is being obnoxious or too pushy, that is certainly a way to sabotage yourself.
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Father Leon proved to be pushy and difficult about all the arrangements, just as Antoine had feared.
Fiction book (2000) -
Supervisors can also be pushy about progress and not see the need and value of plateau phases.
Academic text (2015)
Synonyms
248
3.6
Determined and energetic in trying to reach goals
50
4.1
Demanding attention or action again and again in a firm way
46
2.6
Being quick to tell people what to do in a forceful, unpleasant way
30
5.8
Being proud and trying to control other people
12
7.4
Trying to control other people and not listening to their ideas
6
9.3
Demanding immediate action in a bossy way and allowing no refusal
4
5.5
Using strong pushy ways to make someone buy or agree
1
5.8
Too forceful or pushy in a way that makes other people uncomfortable
1
9.9
Too confident and rude in a way that annoys other people
1
5.6
Trying to control other people in a forceful or unfair way
Being strongly determined to succeed, often in a pushy way
Someone who acts in a pushy way to get ahead and promote their own interests
Being confident and forceful when you speak or act, sometimes sounding rude
Antonyms
Idioms
How Forceful
- Offensive
148
2.7
30
5.8
311
3.7
- Informal
75
5.0
50
4.1
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word pushy comes from the verb push, which means 'to move by force', plus the ending -y that means 'full of'. So a pushy person is like someone who keeps 'pushing' forward and is too forceful or too eager to get what they want.