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pushy
Synonyms and Antonyms of pushy
- He's usually very pushy about insinuating his own ideas into other people's projects.
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
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
- The pushy salesperson kept insisting we had to buy the car before someone else did.
busy, interfering, intruding, intrusive, meddlesome, meddling, nosy (or nosey), obtrusive, officious, presuming, presumptuous, prying, pushing, snoopy
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