assaultive

About 0.17 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Confrontational; tending or seeming to assault; characterized by assault.

   an assaultive patient; an assaultive incident

2. noun A person who assaults others.

Similar words

attacking offensive confrontational affrontive aggressive physical in-your-face belligerent blusterous hard-hitting

Often followed by

behavior and violence or speech crimes patients behaviors men

Word family

assaultively assaultiveness assaultivenesses