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offensive 音標拼音: [əf'ɛnsɪv] a. 令人不快的,侮辱的,攻擊用的 令人不快的,侮辱的,攻擊用的 offensive adj 1: violating or tending to violate or offend against; " violative of the principles of liberty"; " considered such depravity offensive against all laws of humanity" [ synonym: { offensive}, { violative}] 2: for the purpose of attack rather than defense; " offensive weapons" [ ant: { defensive}] 3: causing anger or annoyance; " offensive remarks" [ ant: { inoffensive}, { unoffending}] 4: morally offensive; " an unsavory reputation"; " an unsavory scandal" [ synonym: { unsavory}, { unsavoury}, { offensive}] [ ant: { savory}, { savoury}] 5: unpleasant or disgusting especially to the senses; " offensive odors" [ ant: { inoffensive}] 6: substitute a harsher or distasteful term for a mild one ; "` nigger' is a dysphemistic term for ` African- American'" [ synonym: { dysphemistic}, { offensive}] [ ant: { euphemistic}, { inoffensive}] 7: causing or able to cause nausea; " a nauseating smell"; " nauseous offal"; " a sickening stench" [ synonym: { nauseating}, { nauseous}, { noisome}, { queasy}, { loathsome}, { offensive}, { sickening}, { vile}] n 1: the action of attacking an enemy [ synonym: { offense}, { offence}, { offensive}] Offensive \ Of* fen" sive\, n. The state or posture of one who offends or makes attack; aggressive attitude; the act of the attacking party; -- opposed to { defensive}. [ 1913 Webster] { To take the offensive}, { To act on the offensive}, { To go on the offensive}, to be the attacking party; to initiate hostilities. [ 1913 Webster PJC]
Offensive \ Of* fen" sive\, a. [ Cf. F. offensif. See { Offend}.] [ 1913 Webster] 1. Giving offense; causing displeasure or resentment; displeasing; annoying; as, offensive words. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Giving pain or unpleasant sensations; disagreeable; revolting; noxious; as, an offensive smell; offensive sounds. " Offensive to the stomach." -- Bacon. [ 1913 Webster] 3. Making the first attack; assailant; aggressive; hence, used in attacking; -- opposed to { defensive}; as, an offensive war; offensive weapons. [ 1913 Webster] { League offensive and defensive}, a leaque that requires all the parties to it to make war together against any foe, and to defend one another if attacked. [ 1913 Webster] Syn: Displeasing; disagreeable; distasteful; obnoxious; abhorrent; disgusting; impertinent; rude; saucy; reproachful; opprobrious; insulting; insolent; abusive; scurrilous; assailant; attacking; invading. [ 1913 Webster] -- { Of* fen" sive* ly}, adv. -- { Of* fen" sive* ness}, n. [ 1913 Webster] 325 Moby Thesaurus words for " offensive": Fescennine, Rabelaisian, abhorrent, abominable, abusive, aggravated assault, aggression, aggressive, amphibious attack, antagonistic, appalling, armed assault, arrant, assailing, assailment, assault, atrocious, attack, attacking, awful, backhand, backhanded, bad, bad- smelling, banzai attack, barfy, base, battling, bawdy, beastly, bellicose, belligerent, below contempt, beneath contempt, blameworthy, blitz, blitzkrieg, bloodthirsty, bloody, bloody- minded, blue, boorish, brackish, breakthrough, brutal, caddish, calumnious, charge, chauvinist, chauvinistic, chintzy, cloying, coarse, combative, contemptible, contentious, contumelious, counterattack, counteroffensive, coup de main, crippling attack, crude, dead set at, degrading, deplorable, descent on, despicable, detestable, dire, dirty, disagreeable, discourteous, disgusting, displeasing, disrespectful, diversion, diversionary attack, dreadful, drive, egregious, enemy, enormous, evil, execrable, fecal, ferocious, fetid, fierce, fighting, filthy, flagrant, flank attack, forbidding, foul, foul- mouthed, foul- spoken, foul- tongued, frightful, frontal attack, frowsty, frowy, frowzy, full of fight, fulsome, funky, fusty, gamy, gas attack, ghastly, graveolent, grievous, grim, grisly, gross, gruesome, hateful, hawkish, head- on attack, heinous, hideous, high, horrible, horrid, hostile, humiliating, icky, ignoble, ill- bred, ill- smelling, impertinent, impolite, improper, impudent, impure, in bad taste, inappropriate, inconsiderate, indecent, indecorous, indelicate, inelegant, infamous, infiltration, inimical, insensitive, insolent, insulting, ithyphallic, jingo, jingoish, jingoist, jingoistic, lamentable, left- handed, lewd, lightning attack, lightning war, loathsome, lousy, loutish, louty, lurid, maggoty, malodorous, martial, mass attack, mawkish, megadeath, mephitic, miasmal, miasmic, mildewed, mildewy, militant, militaristic, military, moldy, monstrous, mugging, musty, nasty, nauseant, nauseating, nauseous, nefarious, nidorous, noisome, notorious, noxious, objectionable, obnoxious, obscene, odious, odorous, offense, olid, on the offensive, onset, onslaught, outrageous, overkill, overripe, panzer warfare, pitiable, pitiful, poisonous, pornographic, provocative, pugnacious, push, putrescent, putrid, quarrelsome, rancid, rank, raunchy, reasty, reasy, rebarbative, reechy, reeking, reeky, regrettable, repellent, repelling, reprehensible, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, ribald, rotten, rude, run against, run at, rush, saber- rattling, sad, salacious, sally, sanguinary, sanguineous, savage, scandalous, schlock, scrappy, scurrile, scurrilous, scurvy, shabby, shameful, shock tactics, shocking, shoddy, sickening, smellful, smelling, smelly, smoking- room, smutty, soldierlike, soldierly, sordid, sortie, spoiled, squalid, stenchy, stinking, strike, strong, stuffy, sulfurous, sultry, tactless, tasteless, terrible, threatening, too bad, trigger- happy, truculent, unappetizing, unbecoming, unbeseeming, unchaste, uncivil, unclean, uncongenial, undignified, unfeminine, unfitting, unfriendly, ungenteel, ungentle, ungentlemanly, ungrateful, unladylike, unmannerly, unpacific, unpalatable, unpeaceable, unpeaceful, unpleasant, unprintable, unprovoked assault, unrefined, unrepeatable, unsavory, unseemly, unsolicitous, unspeakable, unsuitable, untasteful, unwholesome, vile, villainous, vomity, vulgar, warlike, warmongering, warring, weevily, woeful, worst, worthless, wretched, yucky
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