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Adjective offensive has 7 senses
- 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"
Antonym: unoffending (indirect, via offending)
- offensive - for the purpose of attack rather than defense; "offensive weapons"
Antonyms: defensive, antiaircraft, antisubmarine, antitank, defending, en garde
- offensive - causing anger or annoyance; "offensive remarks"
Antonyms: inoffensive, unoffending, offenseless, offenceless
- unsavory, unsavoury, offensive - morally offensive; "an unsavory reputation"; "an unsavory scandal"
- offensive - unpleasant or disgusting especially to the senses; "offensive odors"
Antonyms: inoffensive, innocuous, unobjectionable
- dysphemistic, offensive - of an offensive substitute for inoffensive terminology; "`nigger' is a dysphemistic term for `African-American'"
- nauseating, nauseous, noisome, loathsome, offensive, sickening, vile - causing or able to cause nausea; "a nauseating smell"; "nauseous offal"; "a sickening stench"
Antonym: wholesome (indirect, via unwholesome)
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