self-assertive
- adjective
- /ˌsɛlf əˈsɜːrtɪv/
:
autoafirmativo
- This approach illustrates how Eurowestern self-assertive thinking and values can exist in creative dialogue with the more integrative thinking and values that are characteristic of many Indigenous cultures, resulting in positive transformations for all individuals, institutions, and communities involved.
- self-assertive tendency
Examples
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Promotion of competitive behavior over cooperation is one of the principal manifestations of the self-assertive tendency in our society.
Academic text (1993) -
More internationally minded, confident, and self-assertive leaders will appear among the top echelons.
Academic text (1991) -
The members of the Russian elite will eagerly accept the new self-assertive role of Russia in the world; they will be grateful to the new leader for restoring their personal and national pride.
Academic text (2000) -
In the political arena, the antinuclear movement is fighting the most extreme outgrowth of our self-assertive technology and, in doing so, is likely to become one of the most powerful political forces of this decade.
Academic text (1993) -
It was to describe her encounter with this extremely powerful and supremely self-assertive man that Scola visited us again.
Academic text (1997) -
Thus, the self-assertive tendency keeps increasing, and with it the requirement of submission, which is not the complement to self-assertion but the reverse side of the same phenomenon.
Academic text (1993) -
Both yin and yang, integrative and self-assertive tendencies, are necessary for harmonious social and ecological relationships.
Academic text (1993) -
The M subscale reflects self-assertive and instrumental characteristics, and the F subscale reflects interpersonally oriented expressive characteristics.
Academic text (2004) -
From this short survey of cultural attitudes and values, we can see that our culture has consistently promoted and rewarded the yang, the masculine or self-assertive elements of human nature, and has disregarded its yin, the feminine or intuitive aspects.
Academic text (1993) -
In the meeting, her self-assertive remarks demonstrated her strong opinions on the project.
Synonyms
87
4.9
Saying opinions clearly and strongly in public
78
4.2
To speak freely and directly about opinions or feelings
75
5.0
Being rude and trying too hard to make people do what you want
62
4.3
Showing strong power and clear confidence in speech or actions
42
4.2
Showing confidence when saying what you want or think
1
9.9
Too confident and rude in a way that annoys other people
Confident and firm when saying what you think or want
Antonyms
How Assertive
12
7.4
311
3.7
62
4.3
42
4.2
715
2.5
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Self-assertive comes from self ('your own') and assert ('to state firmly'), the same root you see in assertion. Picture someone putting their 'self' forward and speaking firmly, so a self-assertive person confidently and sometimes forcefully shows their opinions.