assaultive

1. 1.

   disposed to attack

   Synonymsattacking

   Similaroffensive

Questions about assaultive

What does assaultive mean?

assaultive means "disposed to attack".

How many syllables are in assaultive?

assaultive has 3 syllables: as-saul-tive. The stress falls on "saul". In IPA it is /əˈsɔltɪv/.

What is another word for assaultive?

Close synonyms include attacking. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is assaultive a common word?

assaultive is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.