Dictionary Entry
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.
9 letters · Scrabble 18 · Words With Friends 20 · 12 senses
Definitions
- 1adjective
Giving offense; causing displeasure or resentment; displeasing; annoying; as, offensive words.
- 2adjective
Giving pain or unpleasant sensations; disagreeable; revolting; noxious; as, an offensive smell; offensive sounds.
- 3adjective
Making the first attack; assailant; aggressive; hence, used in attacking; -- opposed to defensive; as, an offensive war; offensive weapons.
- 4noun
The state or posture of one who offends or makes attack; aggressive attitude; the act of the attacking party; -- opposed to defensive.
- 5noun
the action of attacking an enemy
- 6adjective
substitute a harsher or distasteful term for a mild one
"`nigger' is a dysphemistic term for `African-American'"
Synonyms
- 7adjective
unpleasant or disgusting especially to the senses
"offensive odors"
- 8adjective
morally offensive
"an unsavory reputation"
"an unsavory scandal"
- 9adjective
causing anger or annoyance
"offensive remarks"
- 10adjective
for the purpose of attack rather than defense
"offensive weapons"
- 11adjective
violating or tending to violate or offend against
"violative of the principles of liberty"
"considered such depravity offensive against all laws of humanity"
Synonyms
- 12adjective
causing or able to cause nausea
"a nauseating smell"
"nauseous offal"
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