Assertive and Solid

adjective

• Aggressively self-assured.
  • usage: "an energetic assertive boy who was always ready to argue"; "pointing directly at a listener is an assertive act"
  • synonyms: self-asserting, self-assertive

noun

• Matter that is solid at room temperature and pressure.
• The state in which a substance has no tendency to flow under moderate stress; resists forces (such as compression) that tend to deform it; and retains a definite size and shape.
  • synonyms: solidness, solid state
• A three-dimensional shape.

adjective

• Characterized by good substantial quality.
  • usage: "solid comfort"; "a solid base hit"
• Of definite shape and volume; firm; neither liquid nor gaseous.
  • usage: "ice is water in the solid state"
• Entirely of one substance with no holes inside.
  • usage: "a solid block of wood"
• Of one substance or character throughout.
  • usage: "solid gold"; "carved out of solid rock"
• Uninterrupted in space; having no gaps or breaks.
  • usage: "a solid line across the page"; "solid sheets of water"
• Providing abundant nourishment.
  • usage: "a hearty meal"; "good solid food"; "ate a substantial breakfast"; "four square meals a day"
  • synonyms: hearty, satisfying, square, substantial
• Of good quality and condition; solidly built.
  • usage: "a solid foundation"; "several substantial timber buildings"
  • synonyms: strong, substantial
• Not soft or yielding to pressure.
  • usage: "a firm mattress"; "the snow was firm underfoot"; "solid ground"
  • synonyms: firm
• Having three dimensions.
  • usage: "a solid object"
• Impenetrable for the eye.
  • usage: "solid blackness"
• Financially sound.
  • usage: "the bank is solid and will survive this attack"
• Of a substantial character and not frivolous or superficial.
  • usage: "work of solid scholarship"; "based on solid facts"
• Meriting respect or esteem.
  • usage: "an upstanding member of the community"
  • synonyms: upstanding
• Of the same color throughout.
  • usage: "solid color"
  • synonyms: self-colored, self-coloured
• Acting together as a single undiversified whole.
  • usage: "a solid voting bloc"
  • synonyms: unanimous, whole

• (a.) Not hollow; full of matter; as, a solid globe or cone, as distinguished from a hollow one; not spongy; dense; hence, sometimes, heavy.
• (a.) Not having the lines separated by leads; not open.
• (a.) Firm; compact; strong; stable; unyielding; as, a solid pier; a solid pile; a solid wall.
• (n.) A substance that is held in a fixed form by cohesion among its particles; a substance not fluid.
• (n.) A magnitude which has length, breadth, and thickness; a part of space bounded on all sides.
• (a.) Impenetrable; resisting or excluding any other material particle or atom from any given portion of space; -- applied to the supposed ultimate particles of matter.
• (a.) Having all the geometrical dimensions; cubic; as, a solid foot contains 1,728 solid inches.
• (a.) Having the constituent parts so compact or so firmly adhering, as to resist the impression or penetration of other bodies; having a fixed form; hard; firm; compact; -- opposed to fluid and liquid or to plastic, like clay or to incompact, like sand.
• (a.) United; without division; unanimous; as, the delegation is solid for a candidate.
• (a.) Of a fleshy, uniform, undivided substance, as a bulb or root; not spongy or hollow within, as a stem.
• (a.) Fig.: Worthy of credit, trust or esteem; substantial, as opposed to frivolous or fallacious; weighty; firm; strong; valid; just; genuine.
• (a.) Applied to a compound word whose parts are closely united and form an unbroken word; -- opposed to hyphened.
• (a.) Sound; not weakly; as, a solid constitution of body.