assaultive

== English == === Etymology === From assault +‎ -ive. === Adjective === assaultive (comparative more assaultive, superlative most assaultive) Confrontational; tending or seeming to assault; characterized by assault. 1852, “A Dish of Willis,” review of Nathaniel Parker Willis, Pencillings by the Way, in Church’s Bizarre: For Fireside and Wayside, New Series, Part 12, 18 September, 1852, p. 367,[1] […] we must say, that depreciatory judgments and assaultive criticism, are not only not to our taste, but especially ungrateful to our feelings. ==== Derived terms ==== === Noun === assaultive (plural assaultives) (psychiatry, criminology) A person who assaults others.