All offensive synonyms
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O o adjective offensive
- impolite β not polite or courteous; discourteous; rude: an impolite reply.
- provoking β serving to provoke; causing annoyance.
- provocative β tending or serving to provoke; inciting, stimulating, irritating, or vexing.
- aggressive β An aggressive person or animal has a quality of anger and determination that makes them ready to attack other people.
- attacking β to set upon in a forceful, violent, hostile, or aggressive way, with or without a weapon; begin fighting with: He attacked him with his bare hands.
- violent β acting with or characterized by uncontrolled, strong, rough force: a violent earthquake.
- belligerent β A belligerent person is hostile and aggressive.
- invasive β characterized by or involving invasion; offensive: invasive war.
- bellicose β You use bellicose to refer to aggressive actions or behaviour that are likely to start an argument or a fight.
- assailing β to attack vigorously or violently; assault.
- assaulting β Present participle of assault.
- invading β Present participle of invade.
- unpleasant β not pleasant; displeasing; disagreeable; offensive: an unpleasant taste; an unpleasant situation; an unpleasant manner.
- nasty β physically filthy; disgustingly unclean: a nasty pigsty of a room.
- distasteful β unpleasant, offensive, or causing dislike: a distasteful chore.
- disgusting β causing disgust; offensive to the physical, moral, or aesthetic taste.
- odious β deserving or causing hatred; hateful; detestable.
- hateful β arousing hate or deserving to be hated: the hateful oppression of dictators.
- disrespectful β characterized by, having, or showing disrespect; lacking courtesy or esteem: a disrespectful remark about teachers.
- abhorrent β If something is abhorrent to you, you hate it very much or consider it completely unacceptable.
- abusive β Someone who is abusive behaves in a cruel and violent way towards other people.
- annoying β Someone or something that is annoying makes you feel fairly angry and impatient.
- embarrassing β Causing embarrassment.
- horrible β causing or tending to cause horror; shockingly dreadful: a horrible sight.
- irritating β causing irritation; annoying; provoking: irritating questions.
- objectionable β causing or tending to cause an objection, disapproval, or protest.
- obnoxious β highly objectionable or offensive; odious: obnoxious behavior.
- outrageous β of the nature of or involving gross injury or wrong: an outrageous slander.
- reprehensible β deserving of reproof, rebuke, or censure; blameworthy.
- repugnant β distasteful, objectionable, or offensive: a repugnant smell.
- repulsive β causing repugnance or aversion: a repulsive mask.
- rude β discourteous or impolite, especially in a deliberate way: a rude reply.
- shocking β causing intense surprise, disgust, horror, etc.
- cutting β A cutting is a piece of writing which has been cut from a newspaper or magazine.
- evil β Profoundly immoral and malevolent.
noun offensive
- assault β An assault by an army is a strong attack made on an area held by the enemy.
- attack β To attack a person or place means to try to hurt or damage them using physical violence.
- onslaught β an onset, assault, or attack, especially a vigorous one.
- incursion β a hostile entrance into or invasion of a place or territory, especially a sudden one; raid: The bandits made brief incursions on the village.
- storming β a disturbance of the normal condition of the atmosphere, manifesting itself by winds of unusual force or direction, often accompanied by rain, snow, hail, thunder, and lightning, or flying sand or dust.
- blitz β If a city or building is blitzed during a war, it is attacked by bombs dropped by enemy aircraft.
- raid β a sudden assault or attack, as upon something to be seized or suppressed: a police raid on a gambling ring.
- charge β If you charge someone an amount of money, you ask them to pay that amount for something that you have sold to them or done for them.
- aggression β Aggression is a quality of anger and determination that makes you ready to attack other people.
- invasion β an act or instance of invading or entering as an enemy, especially by an army.
- drive β to send, expel, or otherwise cause to move by force or compulsion: to drive away the flies; to drive back an attacking army; to drive a person to desperation.
- onset β a beginning or start: the onset of winter.
- push β to press upon or against (a thing) with force in order to move it away.
- assailment β to attack vigorously or violently; assault.
adverb offensive
- beastly β If you describe something as beastly, you mean that it is very unpleasant.