Offensive

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  • adjective. undefined
  • adjective. Causing anger, displeasure, or resentment.
  • adjective. Disagreeable to the senses.
  • adjective. undefined
  • adjective. Making a physical or military attack.
  • adjective. Of, relating to, or designed for attack.
  • adjective. Of or relating to a team having possession of a ball or puck.
  • noun. An attitude or position of attack.
  • noun. A physical or military attack or assault.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • 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.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The state or posture of one who offends or makes attack; aggressive attitude; the act of the attacking party; -- opposed to defensive.
  • noun. to be the attacking party; to initiate hostilities.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. undefined
  • adjective. Giving offense; causing displeasure or resentment; displeasing; annoying.
  • adjective. Giving pain or unpleasant sensations; disagreeable; revolting; noxious
  • adjective. Making the first attack; assailant; aggressive; hence, used in attacking; -- opposed to defensive
  • adjective. a leaque that requires all the parties to it to make war together against any foe, and to defend one another if attacked.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Causing offense; arousing a visceral reaction of disgust, anger, or hatred.
  • adjective. Relating to an offense or attack, as opposed to defensive.
  • adjective. Having to do with play directed at scoring.
  • noun. An attack.
  • noun. The posture of attacking or being able to attack.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. violating or tending to violate or offend against
  • adjective. unpleasant or disgusting especially to the senses
  • adjective. causing anger or annoyance
  • adjective. causing or able to cause nausea
  • adjective. morally offensive
  • adjective. for the purpose of attack rather than defense
  • adjective. substitute a harsher or distasteful term for a mild one
  • noun. the action of attacking an enemy