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1
having or showing a bold forcefulness in the pursuit of a goal
- he's usually very pushy about insinuating his own ideas into other people's projects
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- argumentative,
- bellicose,
- belligerent,
- combative,
- contentious,
- discordant,
- disputatious,
- gladiatorial,
- pugnacious,
- quarrelsome,
- trigger-happy,
- truculent,
- warlike
- audacious,
- bold,
- brash,
- brassy,
- bumptious,
- cheeky,
- cocksure,
- cocky,
- confident,
- determined,
- forward,
- impudent,
- insolent,
- overconfident,
- presumptuous,
- unapologetic,
- unsubdued,
- unyielding
- bare-knuckle
- (also bare-knuckled or bare-knuckles),
- feisty,
- scrappy
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2
thrusting oneself where one is not welcome or invited
- the pushy cocktail waiter kept asking me if I wanted another drink, even though I hadn't finished the first one
Synonyms for pushy
- busy,
- interfering,
- intruding,
- intrusive,
- meddlesome,
- meddling,
- nosy
- (or nosey),
- obtrusive,
- officious,
- presuming,
- presumptuous,
- protrusive,
- prying,
- pushing,
- snoopy
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The first known use of pushy was in 1874
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