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adj. Disagreeable to the senses: an offensive odor.

adj. Causing anger, displeasure, resentment, or affront: an offensive gesture.

adj. Making an attack: The offensive troops gained ground quickly.

adj. Of, relating to, or designed for attack: offensive weapons.

adj. Sports Of or relating to a team having possession of a ball or puck: the offensive line.

n. An attitude or position of attack: go on the offensive in chess.

n. An attack or assault: led a massive military offensive.

adj. Causing offense; arousing a visceral reaction of disgust, anger, or hatred.

adj. Relating to an offense or attack, as opposed to defensive.

adj. Having to do with play directed at scoring.

n. An attack.

n. The posture of attacking or being able to attack.

adj. Giving offense; causing displeasure or resentment; displeasing; annoying.

adj. Giving pain or unpleasant sensations; disagreeable; revolting; noxious

adj. Making the first attack; assailant; aggressive; hence, used in attacking; -- opposed to defensive

n. The state or posture of one who offends or makes attack; aggressive attitude; the act of the attacking party; -- opposed to defensive.

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.

n. With the definite article: An aggressive attitude or course of operations; a posture of attack: as, to act on or assume the offensive.

adj. violating or tending to violate or offend against

adj. unpleasant or disgusting especially to the senses

adj. causing anger or annoyance

adj. causing or able to cause nausea

adj. morally offensive

adj. for the purpose of attack rather than defense

adj. substitute a harsher or distasteful term for a mild one

n. the action of attacking an enemy

"As I say in my long list of comments, not only is the term offensive, it is terribly imprecise and journalistically worthless."

offending    repellant    loathly    ghastly    rank    repellent    disgustful    detestable    distasteful    repelling   

offend   

offensiveness   

rude    attacking    abusive    opprobrious    abhorrent    obnoxious    insulting    scurrilous    invading    distasteful   

apprehensive    comprehensive    counteroffensive    defensive    expensive    extensive    hypertensive    inexpensive    inoffensive    intensive   

dangerous    defensive    disagreeable    hostile    personal    ridiculous    rude