[D] Nonaggressive e Unaggressive

Hi Marcio,

I hope I'm not wrong but there's not such word as "unaggressive". It doesn't exist.
There is "non aggressive", use should write it separately.

Hi Marcio

I believe it does exist, and there's no difference between them. "Nonaggressive" seems more common, probably because it links phonetically more smoothly with preceding determiners such as "a" or "the," and even "with." I would join it as one word, Gabi.

Regards

Infelizmente, eu estava pelo menos parcialmente errado. Existe uma pequena diferença entre as duas palavras:

Most North-American ants are unaggressive.
The lion was nonaggressive at our approach.

Can you tell what I´m getting at? There's a subtle difference in usage.

Regards

Hi Marcio,

Yeah, that's sort of how I'm thinking about the difference. I thought of this one too:

Unaggressive countries, by their very nature, don't need nonaggression treaties. It's just not in their genes. Aggressive ones, on the other hand, know that their natural psychoses need treating.

Does it make sense?

Cheers

@G, eu as vi no Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged versão CD.

@H, dissipou minha dúvida. Obrigado very much.

H, thank you for yet another good explanation.

Let me see. In the first example we shouldn't fear most North-American ants as most of them do not show any remarkedly intense combative readiness. In other words, they won't viciously bite you as other ferocious ants in other parts of the world might. In the second example we see a lion with not a sign of aggressiveness--we'd see one not prone to fighting or immediate retaliation in case of provocation. We could even casually or at times walk past and around without worrying much about getting bitten.