| offensive | | |
| n. (act) | 1. offence, offense, offensive | the action of attacking an enemy. |
| ~ military operation, operation | activity by a military or naval force (as a maneuver or campaign).; "it was a joint operation of the navy and air force" |
| ~ counteroffensive | a large scale offensive (more than a counterattack) undertaken by a defending force to seize the initiative from an attacking force. |
| ~ dirty war | an offensive conducted by secret police or the military of a regime against revolutionary and terrorist insurgents and marked by the use of kidnapping and torture and murder with civilians often being the victims.; "thousands of people disappeared and were killed during Argentina's dirty war in the late 1970s" |
| ~ push back, rollback | the act of forcing the enemy to withdraw. |
| adj. | 2. offensive, violative | violating or tending to violate or offend against.; "violative of the principles of liberty"; "considered such depravity offensive against all laws of humanity" |
| ~ offending | offending against or breaking a law or rule.; "contracts offending against the statute were canceled" |
| adj. | 3. offensive | for the purpose of attack rather than defense.; "offensive weapons" |
| ~ aggressive | having or showing determination and energetic pursuit of your ends.; "an aggressive businessman"; "an aggressive basketball player"; "he was aggressive and imperious; positive in his convictions"; "aggressive drivers" |
| ~ hostile | characterized by enmity or ill will.; "a hostile nation"; "a hostile remark"; "hostile actions" |
| ~ antipersonnel | designed to inflict death or personal injury rather than material destruction. |
| ~ assaultive, attacking | disposed to attack. |
| ~ hit-and-run, tip-and-run | designed for or consisting of a brief attack followed by a quick escape.; "hit-and-run units"; "tip-and-run assaults" |
| ~ incursive, invading, invasive | involving invasion or aggressive attack.; "invasive war" |
| ~ marauding, predatory, raiding | characterized by plundering or pillaging or marauding.; "bands of marauding Indians"; "predatory warfare"; "a raiding party" |
| ~ on the offensive | actively attacking. |
| adj. | 4. offensive | causing anger or annoyance.; "offensive remarks" |
| ~ harmful | causing or capable of causing harm.; "too much sun is harmful to the skin"; "harmful effects of smoking" |
| ~ abusive, opprobrious, scurrilous | expressing offensive reproach. |
| ~ disrespectful | exhibiting lack of respect; rude and discourteous.; "remarks disrespectful of the law"; "disrespectful in the presence of his parents"; "disrespectful toward his teacher" |
| adj. | 5. offensive, unsavory, unsavoury | morally offensive.; "an unsavory reputation"; "an unsavory scandal" |
| ~ odoriferous | morally offensive.; "odoriferous legislation" |
| adj. | 6. offensive | unpleasant or disgusting especially to the senses.; "offensive odors" |
| ~ evil | morally bad or wrong.; "evil purposes"; "an evil influence"; "evil deeds" |
| ~ hateful | evoking or deserving hatred.; "no vice is universally as hateful as ingratitude" |
| ~ abhorrent, detestable, repugnant, repulsive, obscene | offensive to the mind.; "an abhorrent deed"; "the obscene massacre at Wounded Knee"; "morally repugnant customs"; "repulsive behavior"; "the most repulsive character in recent novels" |
| ~ charnel, ghastly, sepulchral | gruesomely indicative of death or the dead.; "a charnel smell came from the chest filled with dead men's bones"; "ghastly shrieks"; "the sepulchral darkness of the catacombs" |
| ~ creepy | annoying and unpleasant.; "some creepy kids were bothering her" |
| ~ disgustful, disgusting, foul, loathly, repelling, revolting, skanky, yucky, distasteful, loathsome, repellant, repellent, wicked | highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust.; "a disgusting smell"; "distasteful language"; "a loathsome disease"; "the idea of eating meat is repellent to me"; "revolting food"; "a wicked stench" |
| ~ ghoulish, morbid | suggesting the horror of death and decay.; "morbid details" |
| ~ hideous, horrific, outrageous, horrid | grossly offensive to decency or morality; causing horror.; "subjected to outrageous cruelty"; "a hideous pattern of injustice"; "horrific conditions in the mining industry" |
| ~ objectionable, obnoxious | causing disapproval or protest.; "a vulgar and objectionable person" |
| ~ rank | very offensive in smell or taste.; "a rank cigar" |
| ~ scrimy | dirty and disgusting.; "worry about the gossip and secretiveness and other scrimy sides" |
| ~ verminous | of the nature of vermin; very offensive or repulsive. |
| ~ unpalatable | not pleasant or acceptable to the taste or mind.; "an unpalatable meal"; "unpalatable truths"; "unpalatable behavior" |
| ~ unpleasant | disagreeable to the senses, to the mind, or feelings.; "an unpleasant personality"; "unpleasant repercussions"; "unpleasant odors" |
| adj. | 7. dysphemistic, offensive | substitute a harsher or distasteful term for a mild one.; "`nigger' is a dysphemistic term for `African-American'" |
| adj. | 8. loathsome, nauseating, nauseous, noisome, offensive, queasy, sickening, vile | causing or able to cause nausea.; "a nauseating smell"; "nauseous offal"; "a sickening stench" |
| ~ unwholesome | detrimental to physical or moral well-being.; "unwholesome food"; "unwholesome habits like smoking" |
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