confrontative

English

Etymology

From confront +‎ -ative.

Adjective

confrontative (comparative more confrontative, superlative most confrontative)

  1. confrontational
    • 1986 February 15, Elizabeth Pincus, “The Passing of Canada's Body Politic”, in Gay Community News, volume 14, number 39, page 3:
      Popert believes that BP׳s circulation began to slip at least in part because of their growing timidity in offering confrontative coverage, not because of that coverage.
    • 2009 May 10, Mickey Meece, “Backlash: Women Bullying Women at Work”, in The New York Times‎[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 28 September 2025:
      ONE reason women choose other women as targets “is probably some idea that they can find a less confrontative person or someone less likely to respond to aggression with aggression,” said Gary Namie, research director for the Workplace Bullying Institute, which ordered the study in 2007.
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