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Definition: Pushful |
PushfulAdjective1. Marked by aggressive ambition and energy and initiative; "an aggressive young exective"; "a pushful insurance agent"; "a pushing youth intent on getting on in the world". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: PushfulSynonyms: aggressive (adj), enterprising (adj), pushing (adj), pushy (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Pushful |
| English words defined with "pushful": aggressive ♦ enterprising ♦ pushing, pushy. (references) |
| "Pushful" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Pushful" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "pushful"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | arrogant (arrogant, cavalier, haughty, imperious, jackanapes, lordly, pushing), arrivist (aspiring, pushing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | إنتهازي (machiavellian, opportunist, profiteer, pusher, pushy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | нахакан (fresh, puppyish, pushing, pushy, robustious, smart). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | prùbojný (energetic, enterprising), podnikavý (enterprising). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | arrogant (pushy), arriviste (pusher, pushing, pushy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | rámenõs (brash, dashing, go ahead, red blooded, zippy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ushfulpay videirinho (pusher, pushing), empreendedor (adventurous, enterprising, go-ahead, pushing), dinâmico (dynamical, peppy, smart), ativo (abuzz, acting, active, adroit, aggressive, agile, alive, astir, brisk, busy, deedful, efficient, energetic, havings, industrious, light, live, lively, living, nippy, operative, quick, rangy, rustler, smart, spry, stirring, strenuous, vivacious, vivid), ambicioso (ambitious, aspiring, covetous, greedy). (various references) energic (a live wire, active, alive, brisk, buoyant, dapper, drastic, dynamic, emphatic, energetic, energetically, forcible, full of beans, humming, iron, keen, lively, living, managing, mightily, peppy, peremptory, pushing, sharp, snappy, stout, stoutly, strenuous, strong, strong-minded, trenchant, virile), întreprinzãtor (enterprising, go ahead, pushing). (various references) очень предприимчивый. (various references) pujante (enormous, forceful, towering, tremendous, vigorous), enérgico (active, bold, brisk, dashing, determined, emphatic, energetic, forceful, forcible, forthright, hearty, high pressure, hot, lively, positive, powerful, snappy, spirited, sprightly, strenuous, strong, sturdy, telling, vigorous, vital, zippy), emprendedor (aggressive, enterprising, entrepreneur, go ahead, pushing), ambicioso (ambitious, ambitiously, aspiring, careerist, eager, grandiose, lieu, pushing). (various references) tryckande (close, muggy, oppressive, pressing, pushing, sultry, sweltering). (various references) pişkin (brazenfaced, cagy, conscience-proof, hard bitten, hard boiled, hard-nosed, old, pushing, ripe, sophisticated, worldly, worldly wise), yüzsüz (bare faced, barefaced, bold-faced, brash, brassy, brazenfaced, cheeky, conscience-proof, fresh, gay, hard bitten, hard boiled, hard-nosed, Hardy, impudent, nervy, pushing, ribald, saucy, shameless, unabashed, unashamed, unblushing), sırnaşık (brash, brassy, importunate, intrusive, obtrusive, pushing, sassy, saucy, smarmy), girişken (aggressive, clubable, clubbable, clubby, companionable, enterprising, full of pep, pushing, sociable, up and coming), becerikli (adept, adroit, agile, capable, clever, deft, designing, dexterous, dextrous, efficient, facile, gifted, handsome, ingenious, knowing, light-handed, neat, nimble-fingered, performing, practical, pushing, ready, resourceful, shifty, skilful, skilled, skillful, skilly, slick, smart, versatile, wise), atak (attack, confident, dapper, daring, dashing, gutsy, heady, mettled, mettlesome, militant, push, pushing, rash, reckless, spunky, Venturous). (various references) енергійний (active, aggressive, arduous, deedful, eager, energetic, energetical, fell, go ahead, managing, pithy, red blooded, spirited, spiritful, spirituous, strenuous, two-fisted, up and coming, zippy), підпри"мливий (adventurous, enterprising, pushing), пробивний (percussive, piercing, punchy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "pushful": pushfulness, pushfulnesses. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "f-h-l-p-s-u-u" | |
-2 letters: flush, lupus, plush. | |
-3 letters: flus, lush, plus, puls, push, shul, sulu, ulus. | |
-4 letters: flu, hup, pul, pus, sup, ulu, ups. | |
-5 letters: sh, uh, up, us. | |
| Words containing the letters "f-h-l-p-s-u-u" | |
+4 letters: pushfulness. | |
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