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Defenition of the word offensive

    • Defenition of the word offensive

      • Causing anger or annoyance.
      • A military attack.
      • Used to attack.
      • of an offensive substitute for inoffensive terminology; "`nigger' is a dysphemistic term for `African-American'"
      • causing or able to cause nausea; "a nauseating smell"; "nauseous offal"; "a sickening stench"
      • the action of attacking the enemy
      • unpleasant or disgusting especially to the senses; "offensive odors"
      • causing anger or annoyance; "offensive remarks"
      • for the purpose of attack rather than defense; "offensive weapons"
      • violating or tending to violate or offend against; "violative of the principles of liberty"; "considered such depravity offensive against all laws of humanity"
      • morally offensive; "an unsavory reputation"; "an unsavory scandal"
      • the action of attacking an enemy
      • of an offensive substitute for inoffensive terminology; "`nigger'' is a dysphemistic term for `African-American''"
      • substitute a harsher or distasteful term for a mild one
      • unpleasant or disgusting especially to the senses
      • morally offensive
      • causing anger or annoyance
      • for the purpose of attack rather than defense
      • violating or tending to violate or offend against
      • causing or able to cause nausea

    Synonyms for the word offensive

      • abusive
      • aggressive
      • attacking
      • disgusting
      • distasteful
      • dysphemistic
      • hateful
      • impertinent
      • impolite
      • insulting
      • loathsome
      • nasty
      • nauseating
      • nauseous
      • noisome
      • odious
      • offence
      • offense
      • provocative
      • provoking
      • rude
      • sickening
      • unpleasant
      • unsavory
      • unsavoury
      • vile
      • violative
      • violent

    Similar words in the offensive

      • abhorrent
      • abusive
      • aggressive
      • antipersonnel
      • assault
      • assaultive
      • attack
      • attacking
      • attacking(a)
      • charnel
      • creepy
      • detestable
      • disgustful
      • disgusting
      • disrespectful
      • distasteful
      • evil
      • foul
      • ghastly
      • ghoulish
      • harmful
      • hateful
      • hideous
      • hit-and-run
      • horrid
      • horrific
      • hostile
      • incursive
      • insulting
      • invading
      • invasive
      • loathly
      • loathsome
      • marauding
      • morbid
      • objectionable
      • obnoxious
      • obscene
      • odoriferous
      • offending
      • offensive
      • offensively
      • offensiveness
      • offensiveness's
      • offensives
      • on the offensive
      • on the offensive(p)
      • opprobrious
      • outrageous
      • predatory
      • raiding
      • rank
      • repellant
      • repellent
      • repelling
      • repugnant
      • repulsive
      • revolting
      • scornful
      • scrimy
      • scurrilous
      • sepulchral
      • skanky
      • tip-and-run
      • unpalatable
      • unpleasant
      • unwholesome
      • verminous
      • wicked
      • yucky

    Hyponyms for the word offensive

      • counteroffensive
      • dirty war
      • push back
      • rollback

    Hypernyms for the word offensive

      • military operation
      • operation

    Antonyms for the word offensive

      • defensive
      • euphemistic
      • inoffensive
      • savory
      • savoury
      • unoffending

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