offensive
offensive is a 9-letter English word with 12 senses as adjective and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Giving offense; causing displeasure or resentment; displeasing; annoying; as, offensive words. Face value is 18 in Scrabble and 20 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- adjective. Giving offense; causing displeasure or resentment; displeasing; annoying; as, offensive words.
- adjective. Giving pain or unpleasant sensations; disagreeable; revolting; noxious; as, an offensive smell; offensive sounds.
- adjective. Making the first attack; assailant; aggressive; hence, used in attacking; -- opposed to defensive; as, an offensive war; offensive weapons.
- noun. The state or posture of one who offends or makes attack; aggressive attitude; the act of the attacking party; -- opposed to defensive.
- noun. the action of attacking an enemy
- adjective. substitute a harsher or distasteful term for a mild one
"`nigger' is a dysphemistic term for `African-American'"
- adjective. unpleasant or disgusting especially to the senses
"offensive odors"
- adjective. morally offensive
"an unsavory reputation"
"an unsavory scandal"
- adjective. causing anger or annoyance
"offensive remarks"
- adjective. for the purpose of attack rather than defense
"offensive weapons"
- adjective. violating or tending to violate or offend against
"violative of the principles of liberty"
"considered such depravity offensive against all laws of humanity"
- adjective. causing or able to cause nausea
"a nauseating smell"
"nauseous offal"
Synonyms
offence, offense, dysphemistic, unsavory, unsavoury, violative, loathsome, nauseating, nauseous, noisome, queasy, sickening, vile
Common word forms
offensives, offensively, offensiveness
Words from these letters
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