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Offensive
Offensive Definition And Meaning |
What's The Definition Of Offensive?
[n] the action of attacking the enemy
[adj] of an offensive substitute for inoffensive terminology; "`nigger' is a dysphemistic term for `African-American'"
[adj] unpleasant or disgusting especially to the senses; "offensive odors"
[adj] morally offensive; "an unsavory reputation"; "an unsavory scandal"
[adj] causing anger or annoyance; "offensive remarks"
[adj] for the purpose of attack rather than defense; "offensive weapons"
[adj] violating or tending to violate or offend against; "violative of the principles of liberty"; "considered such depravity offensive against all laws of humanity"
[adj] causing or able to cause nausea; "a nauseating smell"; "nauseous offal"; "a sickening stench"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Offensive: abhorrent |
abusive |
antipersonnel |
assault(a) |
assaultive |
attack(a) |
attacking(a) |
charnel |
creepy |
detestable |
disgustful |
disgusting |
distasteful |
dysphemistic |
foul |
ghastly |
ghoulish |
hideous |
hit-and-run |
horrid |
horrific |
incursive |
insulting |
invading |
invasive |
loathly |
loathsome |
marauding |
morbid |
nauseating |
nauseous |
noisome |
objectionable |
obnoxious |
obscene |
odoriferous |
offence |
offending |
offense |
on the offensive(p) |
opprobrious |
outrageous |
predatory |
raiding |
rank |
repellant |
repellent |
repelling |
repugnant |
repulsive |
revolting |
scornful |
scrimy |
scurrilous |
sepulchral |
sickening |
skanky |
tip-and-run |
unpleasant |
unsavory |
unsavoury |
unwholesome |
verminous |
vile |
violative |
wicked |
yucky
Related Terms | Find terms related to Offensive: abhorrent |
abominable |
abusive |
aggravated assault |
aggression |
aggressive |
amphibious attack |
antagonistic |
appalling |
armed assault |
arrant |
assailing |
assailment |
assault |
atrocious |
attack |
attacking |
awful |
backhand |
backhanded |
bad |
bad-smelling |
banzai attack |
barfy |
base |
battling |
bawdy |
beastly |
bellicose |
belligerent |
below contempt |
beneath contempt |
blameworthy |
blitz |
blitzkrieg |
bloodthirsty |
bloody |
bloody-minded |
blue |
boorish |
brackish |
breakthrough |
brutal |
caddish |
calumnious |
charge |
chauvinist |
chauvinistic |
chintzy |
cloying |
coarse |
combative |
contemptible |
contentious |
contumelious |
counterattack |
counteroffensive |
coup de main |
crippling attack |
crude |
dead set at |
degrading |
deplorable |
descent on |
despicable |
detestable |
dire |
dirty |
disagreeable |
discourteous |
disgusting |
displeasing |
disrespectful |
diversion |
diversionary attack |
dreadful |
drive |
egregious |
enemy |
enormous |
evil |
execrable |
fecal |
ferocious |
Fescennine |
fetid |
fierce |
fighting |
filthy |
flagrant |
flank attack |
forbidding |
foul |
foul-mouthed |
foul-spoken |
foul-tongued |
frightful |
frontal attack |
frowsty |
frowy |
frowzy |
full of fight |
fulsome |
funky |
fusty |
gamy |
gas attack |
ghastly |
graveolent |
grievous |
grim |
grisly |
gross |
gruesome |
hateful |
hawkish |
head-on attack |
heinous |
hideous |
high |
horrible |
horrid |
hostile |
humiliating |
icky |
ignoble |
ill-bred |
ill-smelling |
impertinent |
impolite |
improper |
impudent |
impure |
in bad taste |
inappropriate |
inconsiderate |
indecent |
indecorous |
indelicate |
inelegant |
infamous |
infiltration |
inimical |
insensitive |
insolent |
insulting |
ithyphallic |
jingo |
jingoish |
jingoist |
jingoistic |
lamentable |
left-handed |
lewd |
lightning attack |
lightning war |
loathsome |
lousy |
loutish |
louty |
lurid |
maggoty |
malodorous |
martial |
mass attack |
mawkish |
megadeath |
mephitic |
miasmal |
miasmic |
mildewed |
mildewy |
militant |
militaristic |
military |
moldy |
monstrous |
mugging |
musty |
nasty |
nauseant |
nauseating |
nauseous |
nefarious |
nidorous |
noisome |
notorious |
noxious |
objectionable |
obnoxious |
obscene |
odious |
odorous |
offense |
olid |
on the offensive |
onset |
onslaught |
outrageous |
overkill |
overripe |
panzer warfare |
pitiable |
pitiful |
poisonous |
pornographic |
provocative |
pugnacious |
push |
putrescent |
putrid |
quarrelsome |
Rabelaisian |
rancid |
rank |
raunchy |
reasty |
reasy |
rebarbative |
reechy |
reeking |
reeky |
regrettable |
repellent |
repelling |
reprehensible |
repugnant |
repulsive |
revolting |
ribald |
rotten |
rude |
run against |
run at |
rush |
saber-rattling |
sad |
salacious |
sally |
sanguinary |
sanguineous |
savage |
scandalous |
schlock |
scrappy |
scurrile |
scurrilous |
scurvy |
shabby |
shameful |
shock tactics |
shocking |
shoddy |
sickening |
smellful |
smelling |
smelly |
smoking-room |
smutty |
soldierlike |
soldierly |
sordid |
sortie |
spoiled |
squalid |
stenchy |
stinking |
strike |
strong |
stuffy |
sulfurous |
sultry |
tactless |
tasteless |
terrible |
threatening |
too bad |
trigger-happy |
truculent |
unappetizing |
unbecoming |
unbeseeming |
unchaste |
uncivil |
unclean |
uncongenial |
undignified |
unfeminine |
unfitting |
unfriendly |
ungenteel |
ungentle |
ungentlemanly |
ungrateful |
unladylike |
unmannerly |
unpacific |
unpalatable |
unpeaceable |
unpeaceful |
unpleasant |
unprintable |
unprovoked assault |
unrefined |
unrepeatable |
unsavory |
unseemly |
unsolicitous |
unspeakable |
unsuitable |
untasteful |
unwholesome |
vile |
villainous |
vomity |
vulgar |
warlike |
warmongering |
warring |
weevily |
woeful |
worst |
worthless |
wretched |
yucky
See Also | aggressive |
counteroffensive |
disrespectful |
evil |
harmful |
hateful |
hostile |
military operation |
operation |
push back |
rollback |
unpalatable
Offensive In Webster's Dictionary
\Of*fen"sive\, a. [Cf.F. offensif. See {Offend}.]
1. Giving offense; causing displeasure or resentment;
displeasing; annoying; as, offensive words.
2. Giving pain or unpleasant sensations; disagreeable;
revolting; noxious; as, an offensive smell; offensive
sounds. ``Offensive to the stomach.'' --Bacon.
3. Making the first attack; assailant; aggressive; hence,
used in attacking; -- opposed to {defensive}; as, an
offensive war; offensive weapons.
{League offensive and defensive}, a leaque that requires all
the parties to it to make war together against any foe,
and to defend one another if attacked.
Syn: Displeasing; disagreeable; distasteful; obnoxious;
abhorrent; disgusting; impertinent; rude; saucy;
reproachful; opprobrious; insulting; insolent; abusive;
scurrilous; assailant; attacking; invading. --
{Of*fen"sive*ly}, adv. -- {Of*fen"sive*ness}, n.
\Of*fen"sive\, n.
The state or posture of one who offends or makes attack;
aggressive attitude; the act of the attacking party; --
opposed to {defensive}.
{To act on the offensive}, to be the attacking party.
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