What is another word for offensive?
Synonyms for offensive
əˈfɛn sɪv or, for 4,5 , ˈɔ fɛn-, ˈɒf ɛn-of·fen·sive
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Wiktionary
offensiveadjective
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invidiousoffensiveadjective
Causing offense; arousing a visceral reaction of disgust, anger, or hatred
Some feminists find pornography offensive.
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invidiousoffensiveadjective
Relating to an offense or attack, as opposed to defensive.
The army's offensive capabilities. An offensive weapon.
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invidiousoffensiveadjective
Having to do with play directed at scoring.
The offensive coordinator is responsible for ordering all rushing plays.
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invidious
English Synonyms and Antonyms
offensive
Synonyms:
arrogant, austere, crabbed, disagreeable, displeasing, dreary, forbidding, gloomy, glum, grim, harsh, hateful, ill-humored, ill-natured, repellent, repelling, repulsive, unkind, unpleasantAntonyms:
agreeable, attractive, good-natured, kind, kindly, obliging, pleasant, pleasing, pleasurable
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
offensive
Synonyms:
aggressive, obnoxious, distasteful, displeasing, foul, fetid, unsavory
Princeton's WordNet
offense, offence, offensiveadjective
the action of attacking an enemy
Synonyms:
offense, criminal offence, criminal offense, umbrage, discourtesy, offensive activity, crime, offence, law-breakingAntonyms:
inoffensive, unoffending, wholesome, innocuous, offenceless, antitank, en garde, antiaircraft, offenseless, defensive, defending, antisubmarine, unobjectionableoffensive, violativeadjective
violating or tending to violate or offend against
"violative of the principles of liberty"; "considered such depravity offensive against all laws of humanity"
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queasy, unsavory, loathsome, nauseating, unsavoury, nauseous, dysphemistic, sickening, violative, vile, noisomeAntonyms:
antisubmarine, inoffensive, defending, offenseless, wholesome, unoffending, defensive, offenceless, antiaircraft, unobjectionable, en garde, antitank, innocuousoffensiveadjective
for the purpose of attack rather than defense
"offensive weapons"
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queasy, unsavory, loathsome, nauseating, unsavoury, nauseous, dysphemistic, sickening, violative, vile, noisomeAntonyms:
inoffensive, antitank, unobjectionable, unoffending, antiaircraft, wholesome, innocuous, defending, defensive, offenseless, en garde, offenceless, antisubmarineoffensiveadjective
causing anger or annoyance
"offensive remarks"
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queasy, unsavory, loathsome, nauseating, unsavoury, nauseous, dysphemistic, sickening, violative, vile, noisomeAntonyms:
antiaircraft, unoffending, innocuous, antisubmarine, en garde, antitank, offenseless, wholesome, defensive, defending, offenceless, inoffensive, unobjectionableunsavory, unsavoury, offensiveadjective
morally offensive
"an unsavory reputation"; "an unsavory scandal"
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queasy, unsavory, loathsome, nauseating, unsavoury, nauseous, dysphemistic, distasteful, sickening, violative, vile, noisomeAntonyms:
offenseless, defensive, innocuous, inoffensive, antitank, antiaircraft, en garde, unoffending, wholesome, unobjectionable, antisubmarine, offenceless, defendingoffensiveadjective
unpleasant or disgusting especially to the senses
"offensive odors"
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queasy, unsavory, loathsome, nauseating, unsavoury, nauseous, dysphemistic, sickening, violative, vile, noisomeAntonyms:
antisubmarine, offenceless, defending, antiaircraft, unoffending, defensive, unobjectionable, en garde, inoffensive, antitank, offenseless, wholesome, innocuousdysphemistic, offensiveadjective
substitute a harsher or distasteful term for a mild one
"`nigger' is a dysphemistic term for `African-American'"
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queasy, unsavory, loathsome, nauseating, unsavoury, nauseous, dysphemistic, sickening, violative, vile, noisomeAntonyms:
offenseless, en garde, inoffensive, antitank, offenceless, defending, defensive, innocuous, antiaircraft, antisubmarine, unoffending, wholesome, unobjectionablenauseating, nauseous, noisome, queasy, loathsome, offensive, sickening, vileadjective
causing or able to cause nausea
"a nauseating smell"; "nauseous offal"; "a sickening stench"
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noisome, fetid, nauseous, revolting, nauseating, unsavory, ugly, foul, repellent, dysphemistic, slimy, unsavoury, distasteful, anxious, sick, ill-scented, foetid, vile, despicable, disgustful, stinking, disgusting, sickening, smelly, repelling, worthless, unquiet, foul-smelling, loathsome, sickish, nauseated, nervous, yucky, wicked, uneasy, skanky, funky, wretched, loathly, violative, unworthy, queasy, repellantAntonyms:
unoffending, inoffensive, antiaircraft, offenseless, offenceless, antitank, wholesome, en garde, defending, antisubmarine, defensive, innocuous, unobjectionable
Dictionary of English Synonymes
offensiveadjective
Synonyms:
aggressive, assailant, attacking, invadingoffensiveadjective
Synonyms:
disgusting, nauseating, nauseous, sickening, loathsome, repulsiveoffensiveadjective
Synonyms:
disagreeable, unpleasant, unpalatable, displeasing, revolting, shocking, abominable, detestable, hateful, execrable, obnoxious
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
offensiveadjective
Synonyms:
obnoxious, displeasing, noisome, distasteful, insolent, abusive, aggressive, assailant, fetid, disagreeable, opprobrious, scurrilous, fulsome
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "offensive":
attack, insulting, aggressive, assault, onslaught, shocking, obnoxious, abusive, repugnant, pro-active, non-offensive, offense, attacking, derogatory
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#2010 | crime | |
#2262 | attack | |
#4358 | sick | |
#6171 | assault | |
#6274 | offensive | |
#7144 | offense | |
#7366 | nervous | |
#7689 | ugly | |
#7750 | aggressive | |
#8459 | wicked | |
#9379 | funky | |
#9718 | foul | |
#10353 | offence | |
#11437 | harsh | |
#13365 | abusive | |
#13697 | attacking | |
#13864 | anxious | |
#14061 | shocking | |
#14856 | grim | |
#18616 | unpleasant | |
#20769 | worthless | |
#21751 | arrogant | |
#21931 | disgusting | |
#25644 | insulting | |
#27379 | vile | |
#27699 | uneasy | |
#28701 | gloomy | |
#28746 | repellent | |
#29579 | obnoxious | |
#30005 | smelly | |
#30054 | hateful | |
#30473 | onslaught | |
#30945 | wretched | |
#37338 | dreary | |
#38945 | unworthy | |
#42416 | forbidding | |
#42627 | derogatory | |
#43152 | repulsive | |
#45047 | stinking | |
#47706 | despicable | |
#48458 | sickening | |
#48820 | slimy | |
#53038 | austere | |
#55326 | repugnant | |
#55808 | disagreeable | |
#56411 | distasteful | |
#58305 | revolting | |
#60499 | unkind | |
#62396 | repellant | |
#65966 | loathsome | |
#75889 | unsavory | |
#77107 | glum | |
#77749 | yucky | |
#80214 | repelling | |
#80551 | violative | |
#81217 | nauseous | |
#83921 | skanky | |
#86575 | queasy | |
#94915 | nauseating | |
#110855 | invidious | |
#113981 | nauseated | |
#116654 | fetid | |
#116743 | unquiet | |
#128213 | umbrage | |
#142674 | displeasing | |
#143949 | unsavoury | |
#227568 | noisome | |
#246599 | discourtesy | |
#251752 | crabbed |
How to use offensive in a sentence?
I wouldn’t use the word offensive, I found them a little bit silly, a bit absurd, the issue was what impact did the fact that she has received huge amounts of funding from Wall Street have on her attitude towards Wall Street.
Jed Hoyer ability at Jed Hoyer size and with Jed Hoyer offensive profile to be able to move around, sometimes I think we don't give Jed Hoyer enough credit for being the kind of athlete that Jed Hoyer is, jed Hoyer's Jed Hoyer.
As the president of a university, I would expect more. As the president of a university currently in the middle of a scandal in the national news, I would expect even more than that. I would expect discretion. I would expect thought and research into whether or not this is considered offensive. Frankly, I would expect more creativity in costume selection. But I guess my expectations are too high for Ramsey, don't dress like a culture. They aren't costumes, they're people.
Auction drafts are a common part of fantasy football, and ESPN's segments replicated an auction draft with a diverse slate of top professional football players. Without that context, we understand the optics could be portrayed as offensive, and we apologize.
When one of theirmajor candidates, a much younger man, the senator from Florida, says there should be no exceptions for rape and incest, that is as offensive and as troubling a comment as you can hear from a major candidate running for the presidency.
Translations for offensive
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- هجومArabic
- ата́ка, на́ступ, абра́злівыBelarusian
- обиден, оскърбителенBulgarian
- ofensiva, ofensiuCatalan, Valencian
- urážlivý, útok, ofenzívaCzech
- offensivDanish
- Offensive, beleidigend, offensivGerman
- επιθετικός, προσβλητικόςGreek
- ofensivo, ofensivaSpanish
- hyökkäyskanta, offensiivi, hyökkäys, pysyä hyökkäyskannalla, hyökkäys-, päällekäyvä, hyökkääväFinnish
- offensif, offensant, offensiveFrench
- oilbheumachScottish Gaelic
- अपमानजनकHindi
- offensiveIgbo
- offensivo, offensivaItalian
- 攻撃側, 攻撃的, 気に障る, 攻勢, 攻撃Japanese
- 공세Korean
- pūraurau, weriweri, koeo, mataharehare, hākikiMāori
- beledigend, offensief, aanvallend, aanval, klaar om aan te vallen, inval, walgelijk, weerzinwekkendDutch
- ofensywa, atak, obraźliwyPolish
- ofensivo, ofensivaPortuguese
- ofensant, ofensivă, ofensantă, atacRomanian
- наступательный, наступле́ние, оскорбительный, обидный, ата́каRussian
- ofanziva, офанзиваSerbo-Croatian
- stötande, offensiv, anstötligSwedish
- น่ารังเกียจThai
- ата́ка, на́ступ, обра́зливийUkrainian
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