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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, pugnacious, quarrelsome, trigger-happy, truculent, warlike
hyperaggressive, overambitious
dynamic, energetic, 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
- the pushy cocktail waiter kept asking me if I wanted another drink, even though I hadn't finished the first one
busy, interfering, intruding, intrusive, meddlesome, meddling, nosy (or nosey), obtrusive, officious, presuming, presumptuous, protrusive, prying, pushing, snoopy
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