Competition

Synonyms for aggressive

The synonym for aggressive recorded in this bank is belligerent, in the sense "characteristic of an enemy or one eager to fight". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.

1 synonym · Tier 3, Ridgeline · 1 sense · adjective

The synonym for aggressive

belligerentadjective, in the sense "characteristic of an enemy or one eager to fight"

One pair, read and signed off by a human before it shipped. The bank records a synonym per sense, so a second one appears here the day aggressive is audited in a second meaning.

The senseadjectiveTier 3, RidgelineCompetition

characteristic of an enemy or one eager to fight

Aggressive acts against another country.

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The true synonym

belligerent

Same sentence, swapped: Belligerent acts against another country.

Close but different

These three are the other tiles for this sense. Each is a real word, and none of them can stand where aggressive stands in the sentence above.

keen
harsh
severe

Where aggressive turns up in the game

aggressive is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 3, Ridgeline. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.

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This page is built from Open English WordNet 2025, with the sense, the sentence, the tier and the near misses read by a human in the July 2026 audit. Everything on it is a stored field, not a run-time composition.

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