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Definition of Offensive

Offensive Giving offense; causing displeasure or resentment; displeasing; annoying; as, offensive words. Giving pain or unpleasant sensations; disagreeable; revolting; noxious; as, an offensive smell; offensive sounds. Making the first attack; assailant; aggressive; hence, used in attacking; -- opposed to defensive; as, an offensive war; offensive weapons. The state or posture of one who offends or makes attack; aggressive attitude; the act of the attacking party; -- opposed to defensive. Related Definitions: Act, Aggressive, An, Annoying, As, Assailant, Attack, Attacking, Attitude, Causing, Defensive, Disagreeable, Displeasing, Displeasure, First, Giving, Hence, In, Making, Noxious, Of, Offense, Offensive, One, Opposed, Or, Pain, Party, Posture, Resentment, Revolting, Smell, State, The, To, Unpleasant, Used, War, Who

Offensive Quotations Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up. Red Auerbach We have no patience with other people's vanity because it is offensive to our own. Francois de La Rochefoucauld Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive. Friedrich Nietzsche Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed, and rightly. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Success consecrates the most offensive crimes. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Offensive Translations offensive in Dutch is aanvallend, offensief offensive in French is offensive offensive in Italian is offensiva, allusivo offensive in Portuguese is ofensivo offensive in Spanish is ofensiva

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