" self-asserting "

1: having a feeling of superiority that shows itself in an overbearing attitude;

  * e.g., " ... a bunch of self-asserting upstarts who thought that they could buy their way into high society "

•  Synonyms : 

•  arrogant,

•  assumptive,

•  bumptious,

•  cavalier,

•  chesty,

•  haughty,

•  high-and-mighty,

•  high-handed,

•  high-hat,

•  highfalutin,

•  huffish,

•  huffy,

•  imperious,

•  important,

•  lofty,

•  lordly,

•  masterful,

•  overweening,

•  peremptory,

•  pompous,

•  presuming,

•  presumptuous,

•  pretentious,

•  self-assertive,

•  sniffy,

•  stiff-necked,

•  supercilious,

•  superior,

•  toplofty,

•  uppish,

•  uppity

•  Antonyms : 

•  humble,

•  lowly,

•  modest,

•  unarrogant,

•  unpretentious

2: having or showing great faith in oneself or one's abilities;

  * e.g., " ... it takes a rather self-asserting person to start a business at such a young age "

•  Synonyms : 

•  assured,

•  confident,

•  secure,

•  self-assured,

•  self-confident

•  Antonyms : 

•  diffident,

•  insecure,

•  self-distrustful,

•  self-doubting

3: having or showing a bold forcefulness in the pursuit of a goal;

  * e.g., " ... just the kind of cocky, self-asserting person that you'd expect a sports agent to be "

•  Synonyms : 

•  aggressive,

•  ambitious,

•  assertive,

•  enterprising,

•  fierce,

•  go-getting,

•  high-pressure,

•  in-your-face,

•  militant,

•  pushy,

•  self-assertive

•  Antonyms : 

•  ambitionless,

•  low-pressure,

•  nonassertive,

•  unaggressive,

•  unambitious,

•  unassertive,

•  unenterprising