Thesaurus
go-getting
Synonyms and Antonyms of go-getting
- this job is a great opportunity for some go-getting young person
determined, diligent, driving, dynamic, enterprising, gung ho, hungry, hustling, industrious, motivated, scrappy, venturesome, venturous
ardent, avid, eager, energetic, impassioned, keen, raring, vigorous
aggressive, assertive, high-flying, opportunistic, overambitious, pretentious, pushy, self-assertive
- a determined newcomer who made a go-getting bid for the governorship
argumentative, bellicose, belligerent, combative, contentious, discordant, disputatious, gladiatorial, militant, pugnacious, quarrelsome, trigger-happy, truculent, warlike
hyperaggressive, overambitious
dynamic, energetic, enterprising, gung ho, hustling, strenuous, vigorous
adventuresome, adventurous, daring, dashing, emboldened, gutsy, venturesome, venturous
audacious, bold, brash, brassy, bumptious, cheeky, cocksure, cocky, confident, determined, forward, impudent, insolent, overconfident, presumptuous, unapologetic, unsubdued, unyielding
bare-knuckle (also bare-knuckled), feisty, scrappy
dominating, domineering, imperious, lordly, magisterial, overbearing
acquiescent, amenable, compliant, deferential, docile, resigned, submissive, tractable, yielding
cowering, cringing, groveling (or grovelling), shrinking
bashful, demure, diffident, humble, lowly, meek, mild, modest, mousy (or mousey), overmodest, passive, quiet, reserved, retiring, shy, subdued, timid, unobtrusive
go-getting
Synonyms and Antonyms of go-getting
- with all his go-getting, he should move quickly up the corporate ladder
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