Offensive

Adjective

 * 1) Causing offense; arousing a visceral reaction of disgust, anger, or hatred
 * Some feminists find pornography offensive.
 * 1) Relating to an offense or attack, as opposed to defensive.
 * The army's offensive capabilities. An offensive weapon.
 * 1)  Having to do with play directed at scoring.
 * The offensive coordinator is responsible for ordering all rushing plays.

Synonyms

 * invidious

Derived terms

 * offensiveness

Related terms

 * offend

Noun

 * 1)  An attack.
 * The Marines today launched a major offensive.
 * 1)  The posture of attacking or being able to attack.
 * He took the offensive in the press, accusing his opponent of corruption.

Verbs for Offensive
act on—; assume—; choose—; detail—; dispose to—; launch—; occupy—; plan—; rely on—; take up—; —aggravates; —batters; —drives; —grapples; —harries; — instigates; —invades; —presses; —storms; —strikes.

Adverbs for Offensive
adverbs distinctly; strikingly; conspicuously; highly; terribly; unexpectedly; boorishly; impertinently; cruelly; bitterly; amazingly; monstrously; daringly; deliberately; purposely; intentionally; unpardonably; inexcusably; execrably; abominably; disagreeably; unnecessarily; unwarrantably; disgracefully; shamefully; aggressively.

Thesaurus
Fescennine, Rabelaisian, 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, 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, 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

Etymology
< offensif: <  as if *undefined: < offendere:, past participle offensus:; see offend.

Adjective

 * Chinese:
 * Simplified: 攻击性的; 冒犯的; 讨厌的, 令人不快的;
 * Czech:
 * Dutch: weerzinwekkend, walgelijk, beledigend
 * Finnish: hyökkäävä, päällekäyvä, loukkaava (hurtful)
 * French: ,
 * Japanese: 攻撃的
 * Russian: оскорбительный, обидный


 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbian:
 * Spanish: ,


 * Chinese:
 * Simplified: 进攻性的
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish: hyökkäävä, hyökkäys-


 * French: ,
 * Italian:
 * Spanish:

Noun

 * Chinese:
 * Simplified: 进攻; 攻势
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Finnish: ,


 * French:
 * Romanian: ofensivă, atac
 * Russian: наступление, атака
 * Serbian: офанзива


 * Dutch: klaar om aan te vallen
 * Finnish: hyökkäyskanta: pysyä hyökkäyskannalla
 * French:


 * Italian:
 * Romanian: ofensivă

Noun

 * 1) An offensive (military attack).

Noun

 * 1) offensive (posture of attacking or being able to attack)
 * 2) attack, offensive

Antonyms

 * Defensive

Synonyms

 * Angriff

Noun
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