Serving to offend, assail, or attack; used in attack: opposed to defensive: as, offensive weapons.
Consisting in or proceeding by attack; assailant; invading; aggressive: opposed to defensive.
Serving to injure; injurious.
Causing or giving offense; fitted or intended to offend or give displeasure; provocative of displeasure; insulting; annoying; displeasing: as, an offensive remark; offensive behavior.
Disgusting; disagreeable; giving pain or unpleasant sensations: as, an offensive smell.
noun.
With the definite article: An aggressive attitude or course of operations; a posture of attack: as, to act on or assume the offensive.