pushful

[poosh-fuhl]

adjective

1. self-assertive and aggressive; pushing. pushing.

Other Word Forms

• pushfully adverb
• pushfulness noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of pushful¹

First recorded in 1895–1900; push + -ful

Example Sentences

Wells, like the pushful tradesman he is, has the very thing in his pocket.

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He had only joined the riot from youthful exuberance and a desire to be "in the hearse," as an old Scottish lady once bitterly observed of a too pushful mourner at her husband's funeral.

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And who in this pushful, practical age has ever heard of a car spotter in the railway yards buying a ton of coal?

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Close astern of her comes War Ordnance, her pushful young captain having taken heed of the sounds of Standard's weighing.

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This is the work of one pushful, shoving creature, a man named Harman.

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Related Words

• ambitious 
• assertive 
• brash 
• obnoxious 
• presumptuous