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Definition: Offensive |
OffensiveAdjective1. Violating or tending to violate or offend against; "violative of the principles of liberty"; "considered such depravity offensive against all laws of humanity". 2. For the purpose of attack rather than defense; "offensive weapons". 3. Causing anger or annoyance; "offensive remarks". 4. Morally offensive; "an unsavory reputation"; "an unsavory scandal". 5. Unpleasant or disgusting especially to the senses; "offensive odors". 6. Of an offensive substitute for inoffensive terminology; "`nigger' is a dysphemistic term for `African-American'". 7. Causing or able to cause nausea; "a nauseating smell"; "nauseous offal"; "a sickening stench". Noun1. The action of attacking the enemy. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "offensive" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
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Satire | OFFENSIVE, adj. Generating disagreeable emotions or sensations, as the advance of an army against its enemy. "Were the enemy's tactics offensive?" the king asked. "I should say so!" replied the unsuccessful general. "The blackguard wouldn't come out of his works!". Source: Devil's Dictionary. |
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An offense or offence is a violation of the penal law. (See also crime, felony, misdemeanor, infraction, indictable offence, summary offence.)Offense is also a general term in a variety of sports for any situation in which a participant, or team of participants, is in a position to score.
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The offensive team or offense in American football or Canadian football, is the team that begins a play from scrimmage in possession of the ball. A play usually begins with the quarterback taking a snap from the center, and then either handing off to a back, passing to a reciever or a back, or running the ball himself.The offensive unit in American football consists of a quarterback, linemen, backs, and recievers. The function of the linemen is to block. The line consists of a center, two guards, two tackles and one or two tight ends. Backs include halfbacks and a fullback, who usually block, run the ball, or receive a pass. The function of the wide receivers is to catch passes.
- center - the center performs the normal blocking functions of all linemen and, in addition, is the player who puts the ball in play by means of the snap.
- guard - the two guards are the offensive linemen directly on either side of the center and inside the tackles. Like all interior linemen, their function is to block on both running and passing plays. On some plays, rather than blocking straight ahead, a guard will "pull" in order to block a player on the opposite side of the center, in a running play called a "trap". Sometimes both guards will pull, in support of an outside running play called a "sweep".
- tackle - the offensive tackles play on either side of the guards. Their role is primarily to block on both running and passing plays. The area from one tackle to the other is an area of "close line play" in which some blocks from behind, which are prohibited elsewhere on the field, are allowed.
- tight end - the tight ends play on either side of, and immediatly next to, the tackles. They are a mix between a lineman and a pass receiver. If an end moves away from the tackle, he is called a split end. Modern formations may have only one tight end, and a wide receiver instead of a second tight end.
- wide receiver - the wide receivers are speedy pass-catching specialists. Their job is to run pass routes and get open for a pass. A wide receiver may line up on the line of scrimmage and be counted as one of the necessary 7 players on the line in a legal formation, or he may line up off the line of scrimmage and be counted as being in the backfield.
- halfback - the halfbacks may function as running backs, blocking backs or short-yardage receivers. In some formations, running back positions may have specialized names. In a traditional formation, there are two halfbacks. Modern formations may have only one.
- fullback - like the halfbacks, a fullback may do some running, some blocking, some short receiving. A classic fullback is more of a straight-ahead, "four yards and a cloud of dust" power runner than a halfback.
- quarterback - it all revolves around the quarterback
See also
- Defensive team
- Special teams
- American football/Glossary
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Offensive team."
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Terms of disparagement (or fighting words) are pejorative terms such as yid, kike, nigger, whore, slut, fag and queer whose use usually arouses painful feelings in the target, members of the targeted group or sympathizers.Etiquette experts recommend these terms be avoided in polite society. In impolite society, they may indeed cause a fight.
See also: List of ethnic slurs
Fighting Words and the First Amendment of the U.S. constitution
In its 1942 decision, Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire, the Supreme Court of the United States articulated the fighting words doctrine, a limitation of the First Amendment's guarantee of freedom of speech.
Chaplinsky, a Jehovah's Witness, had said to a New Hampshire town marshall who was attempting to prevent him from preaching: "You are a God-damned racketeer" and "a damned Fascist" and was arrested. The Court upheld the arrest and stated:
The Court has continued to uphold the doctrine, but despite this vigorous statement, it has also steadily narrowed the grounds on which fighting words are held to apply. In Street v. New York (1969), which overturned a statute prohibiting flag-burning, the Court held that mere offensiveness of fighting words was not enough, and that the threat of actual violence must be present. Similarly, in Cohen v. California (1971), the fact that Cohen had been arrested for wearing a jacket that said "Fuck the draft" did not constitute uttering fighting words since there had been no "personally abusive epithets".
- There are certain well-defined and narrowly limited classes of speech, the prevention and punishment of which have never been thought to raise any constitutional problem. These include the lewd and obscene, the profane, the libelous, and the insulting or "fighting" words" those which by their very utterance inflict injury or tend to incite an immediate breach of the peace. It has been well observed that such utterances are no essential part of any exposition of ideas, and are of such slight social value as a step to truth that any benefit that may be derived from them is clearly outweighed by the social interest in order and morality.
Finally, in R.A.V. v. City of St. Paul (1992), the Court overturned a statute prohibiting racial slurs on the grounds that governments could not prohibit some fighting words (racial slurs) and not others. The court went on to assign some free-speech value to fighting words:
The court went on to say that while the government can regulate the mode of delivery of the ideas, it cannot regulate the ideas themselves.
- It is not true that "fighting words" have at most a "de minimis" expressive content, or that their content is in all respects worthless and undeserving of constitutional protection"; sometimes they are quite expressive indeed. We have not said that they constitute "no part of the expression of ideas," but only that they constitute "no essential part of any expression of ideas."
In more recent decisions, the Court has held that fighting words must "reasonably incite the average person to retaliate" and risk "an immediate breach of the peace" or they could not be prohibited.
External Link
- What is the Fighting Words doctrine? from freedomforum.org.
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Synonyms: OffensiveSynonyms: dysphemistic (adj), loathsome (adj), nauseating (adj), nauseous (adj), noisome (adj), sickening (adj), unsavory (adj), unsavoury (adj), vile (adj), violative (adj), offence (n), offense (n). (additional references) |
| Antonyms: defensive (adj), euphemistic (adj), inoffensive (adj), savory (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Attack | Assume the offensive, take the offensive; be the aggressor, become the aggressor; strike the first blow, draw first blood, throw the first stone at; lift a hand against, draw the sword against; take up the cudgels; advance against, march against; march upon, harry; come on, show fight. |
Adverb: on the offensive. | |
Adjective: attacking;Verb: aggressive, offensive, obsidional. | |
Dislike | Disliked; Verb: uncared for, unpopular; out of favor; repulsive, repugnant, repellant; abhorrent, insufferable, fulsome, nauseous; loathsome, loathful; offensive; disgusting; Verb: disagreeable c. (painful). |
Hate | Obnoxious, hateful, odious, abominable, repulsive, offensive, shocking; disgusting; (disagreeable); reprehensible. |
Inelegance | Adjective: inelegant, graceless, ungraceful; harsh, abrupt; dry, stiff, cramped, formal, guinde; forced, labored; artificial, mannered, ponderous; awkward, uncourtly, unpolished; turgid; affected, euphuistic; barbarous, uncouth, grotesque, rude, crude, halting; offensive to ears polite. |
Pain | Odious, hateful, execrable, repulsive, repellent, abhorrent; horrid, horrible, horrific, horrifying; offensive. |
Party | Society, association; institution; union; trades union; league, syndicate, alliance, Verein, Bund, Zollverein, combination; Turnverein; league offensive and defensive, alliance offensive and defensive; coalition; federation; confederation, confederacy; junto, cabal, camarilla, camorra, brigue; freemasonry; party spirit; (cooperation). |
Uncleanness | Nasty, coarse, foul, offensive, abominable, beastly, reeky, reechy; fetid. |
Unsavoriness | Offensive, repulsive, nasty; sickening. Verb: nauseous; loathsome, fulsome; unpleasant . |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Offensive |
| Specialty definitions using "offensive": advance to contact, ahhhkill! ♦ Blow Me, Bully-rook ♦ CDA, coordinated attack, counter air operation, CUPID, Cyberwar ♦ deliberate attack ♦ Electronic Attack, Electronic Protection, Employee, Eye-sore ♦ fetid calcite ♦ Gild the Pill, ground liaison officer ♦ hosed ♦ Information Warfare, intruder operation, I-War ♦ killer micro ♦ Lice ♦ net.police ♦ Old ♦ Philoctetes, Pickwickian ♦ sewage purification, sewage treatment, Short-Range Attack Missile, sweetening treatment, sweeting treatment ♦ Things Hackers Detest and Avoid ♦ Waiter, wastewater purification, wastewater treatment, Whitewash. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "offensive": Frouzy. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Offensive" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. French (offensive), German (access, aggression, attack, offense, offensive, push), Italian (offensives). |
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Screenplays | Heywood leads the league in most offensive categories, including nose hair (Major League; writing credit: David S. Ward) Or is that an offensive term (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) If that weren't true, I'd find that offensive. (Will & Grace; writing credit: Evan Weinstein) He'll have that shield down in time Or this'll be the shortest offensive of all time (Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi; writing credit: George Lucas; Lawrence Kasdan) Really offensive. (Pretty Woman; writing credit: J.F. Lawton) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Spring Offensive (1940) Offensive System (1931) The Great Offensive (1917) | |
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 | C&GS Puerto Princesa, Philippines chart with military grid Philippine Islands covered by C&GS charts prior to war Charts helped U.S. forces transport men and equipment Offensive operations planned using C&GS charts as well. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | "These Republic of Korea troops move into the line from Wanjin, Korea in a cloud of choking dust that characterizes the discomfort of all troops operating in Korea today." "This photo was taken by U.S. Navy Combat Camerman on the way to join the Marine Corps in the beleagured hills of Korea in the Chinese Spring Offensive campaign." Quoted from the original caption released with this p. Credit: NAVY; photo by Commander, Naval Forces Far East under date of 24 May 1951. The U.S. Army truck carrying the ROK troops also appears to be towing a wooden pole.. |
 | General arrangement plan published in "Submarine Warfare, Offensive and Defensive", by Lieutenant Commander J.S. Barnes, USN, 1869. The drawing also includes detail drawings of the spar torpedo carried by this boat. This craft is similar to Picket Boat No. 1, which was used by Lieutenant William B. Cushing to sink the Confederate ironclad Albemarle on the night of 27-28 October 1864. Credit: NAVY. |  | President Kennedy three-quarter length portrait, seated at desk, facing front, signing a presidential proclamation titled "Interdiction of the delivery of offensive weapons to Cuba". Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | U.S. Army in final drive on Guadalcanal. American soldiers, clad in the briefest clothing because of intense heat, blast away at the few remaining enemy positions left on Guadalcanal in the Solomons during the final offensive which led to liberation of th. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | A View from the edge of Belleau Woods, looking toward Hill no. 193 where the American Army turned the last German offensive, July 1918. Torcy and Belleau on the left, Givry Hill no. 193 and Les Brusses farm on the center. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | The last big offensive. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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Friedrich Nietzsche | 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. |
Robert Burns | I pick my favorite quotation and store them in my mind as ready armor, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence. |
Samuel Johnson | This merriment of parsons is mighty offensive. |
Seneca | Success consecrates the most offensive crimes. |
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Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | After the latter, the animal was ready to burst, and made so violent a discharge, as was very offensive to me and my companions |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | Nothing was too trivial for the Hindoo lawgiver, however offensive it may be to modern taste |
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Business | According to the Air Quality Preservation Act, emission standards have been set for 26 substances including sulfur dioxide, SO2, NOX, coarse dust (TSP), offensive odors and so forth. (references) | |
Recently, volatile organic compounds (VOC) and other offensive odors discharged by petrochemical factories and industrial waste treatment factories have emerged as new sources of pollution. (references) | ||
Children | Bosnia and Herzegovina | So-called national subjects (language, history and music) were still taught separately in afternoon classes, but materials that could be hateful or offensive to others were eliminated. (references) |
Civil Liberties | China | The authorities block access to Web sites they find offensive. (references) |
India | The board censors material deemed offensive to public morals or communal sentiment. (references) | |
Economic History | Sri Lanka | That offensive was, in turn, also halted. (references) |
Cyprus | In a two-stage offensive, Turkish troops took control of 38% of the island. (references) | |
Luxembourg | In May of 2000 it put forth its plan for an information technology offensive known as e-Luxembourg. (references) | |
Human Rights | Afghanistan | During the offensive to capture Taloqan, Taliban aircraft bombed the city many times. (references) |
Afghanistan | The Northern Alliance reportedly laid these mines in response to the Taliban's summer 2000 offensive. (references) | |
Macedonia | For example, police caused extensive damage to civilian property during an April combat offensive near Kumanovo. (references) | |
Minorities | Brazil | A 1997 amendment to this law added prohibitions against, and jail terms for, the incitement of racial discrimination or prejudice and the dissemination of racially offensive symbols and epithets. (references) |
Political Economy | Angola | The FAA claimed that it had integrated more than 12,000 UNITA soldiers since the 1999 fall offensive. (references) |
Sri Lanka | In April, government troops launched a major offensive on the Jaffna Peninsula that resulted in heavy casualties for its forces. (references) | |
Travel | Portugal | Aggressiveness is not yet keen in marketing because it may be interpreted as socially offensive. (references) |
Women | Czech Republic | The law defines sexual harassment as unwanted, inappropriate or offensive sexual behavior, acceptance or rejection of which could be interpreted by another employee as affecting her status in the workplace. (references) |
Worker Rights | Japan | The annual "Spring Wage Offensive," in which individual unions in each industry conduct negotiations simultaneously with their firms, involves nationwide participation. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | OLD, adj. In that stage of usefulness which is not inconsistent with general inefficiency, as an old man. Discredited by lapse of time and offensive to the popular taste, as an old book. "Old books? The devil take them!" Goby said. "Fresh every day must be my books and bread." Nature herself approves the Goby rule And gives us every moment a fresh fool. Harley Shum |
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Rush Limbaugh | You can't call a partisan a partisan because it would be considered offensive or insensitive. |
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George Washington | 1789-1797 | Offensive operations have therefore been directed, to be conducted, however, as consistently as possible with the dictates of humanity. |
John F. Kennedy | 1961-1963 | The Communist economic offensive is under way. |
Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | So, I believe that we should resume the talks with the Soviet Union about limiting offensive and defensive missile systems. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | Reduction of strategic offensive arms is one step. |
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| "Offensive" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 86.81% of the time. "Offensive" is used about 909 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 86.81% | 789 | 8,779 |
| Noun (singular) | 13.19% | 120 | 29,358 |
| Total | 100.00% | 909 | N/A |
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Expressions using "offensive": ad on the offensive ♦ be offensive ♦ general offensive ♦ League offensive and defensive ♦ major offensive ♦ mount an offensive ♦ mount the offensive ♦ offensive activity ♦ offensive cargo ♦ offensive counter air operation ♦ offensive language ♦ offensive mine countermeasures ♦ offensive minefield ♦ offensive missile ♦ offensive operation ♦ offensive to ears polite ♦ offensive war ♦ offensive weapon ♦ on the offensive ♦ peace offensive ♦ pursue the offensive ♦ take the offensive ♦ To act on the offensive ♦ to go on the offensive ♦ to take the offensive. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "offensive": offensive-defensive. | |
Ending with "offensive": counter-offensive, non-offensive. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "offensive"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | beledigend (abusive, insulting, nasty, opprobrious). (various references) | |
Albanian | ofensivë, ofendues (assaulter, insulting, mortifying, opprobrious), sulmues (aggressive, aggressor, assailant, assault, assaulter, attacker, raider, storm trooper), sulm (aggression, assault, attack, cannonade, charge, dash, descent, drive, hit, inroad, mugging, offence, onfall, onset, onslaught, push, raid, razzia, rush, strike, thrust), fyes (abusive, insulting, offender, outrageous, vituperative). (various references) | |
Arabic | كريه (abhorrent, abominable, accursed, atrocious, bad, brackish, cursed, detestable, disagreeable, distasteful, foul, frightful, hateful, horrible, loathsome, nasty, objectionable, odious, out of favor, out of favour, repellent, repugnant, repulsive, seamy, sickening, sour, ugly, unattractive, unpleasant, unwholesome, wicked), كر هجوم, مهين (contemptible, degrading, despicable, despised, insulting, menial, offending, outrageous), مزعج (aggravating, annoying, bore, bothering, bothersome, disagreeable, disquieting, disturber, disturbing, galling, grating, harsh, horrid, importunate, importune, intruder, irksome, irritating, mean, mischievous, pain in the neck, pestilential, plaguy, provoking, terrible, tiresome, troubled, troublesome, ugly, uncomfortable, unpleasant, upsetting, vexatious, vexing, wicked, worrisome), هجمة (sally, sortie), هجومي (aggressive), هجوم (aggression, assault, attack, blow, dash, offence, onrush, onset, onslaught, pounce, push, raid, rush, swoop), قبيح (disgusting, fiend, hideous, homely, monstrous, odious, repugnant, repulsive, ugly, unattractive, unsightly), عدواني (aggressive, cantankerous, petulant, quarrelsome, squabble, truculent), جارح (acrid, cutting, injurious, painful, predatory, wounding), إعتداء (assault, battery, entrenchment, inroad, onset, violation, wrong, wrongdoing). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | крайно неприятен (unmentionable), оскърбителен (abusive, contumelious, galling, insulting, invidious, opprobrious, rude, uncomplitary, wrongful), офанзива, отвратителен (abhorrent, abominable, accursed, accurst, atrocious, awful, beastly, bestial, carrion, creepy, cursed, damnable, detestable, disgustful, disgusting, distasteful, execrable, foul, fulsome, gruesome, hateful, heinous, hideous, horrible, ill-favored, ill-favoured, infamous, loathsome, lousy, miserable, morbid, nasty, nauseous, noisome, odious, punk, putrid, rank, repellent, revolting, rotten, septic, shocking, sickening, ugly, unholy, unsavory, unsavoury, unspeakable, villainous, wicked), обиден (abusive, aggrieved, huffy, injured, injurious, insulted, invasive, invidious, opprobrious, pained, resentful), нахален (arrogant, cheeky, contumelious, flip, forward, huffish, impudent, insolent, jumped-up, malapert, nervy, obtrusive, perky, presuming, sassy, saucy, snotty), нападателен (aggressive, incursive, militant, truculent), зловонен (feculent, fetid, malodorous, smelly, strong), противен (abhorrent, abominable, adverse, bastard, contrary, cross, disagreeable, foul, fulsome, ghastly, gross, horrid, loud, mucky, nameless, nasty, noisome, objectionable, obnoxious, odious, opposing, pestilential, rebarbative, repugnant, repulsive, scarlet, sickening, sickly, sorry, sour, squalid, swinish, ugly, unattractive, unfavorable, unfavourable, ungracious, ungrateful, unpalatable, unpleasant, unsavory, unsavoury, vexatious, vile, villainous). (various references) | |
Chinese | 有""性 , "击性 (Offensively), "勢 . (various references) | |
Czech | ofenzivní, ofenziva, odporný (abhorrent, abominable, bad, detestable, disgustful, disgusting, distasteful, foul, hateful, horrible, loathsome, nasty, nauseous, noisome, obnoxious, odious, queasy, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, sickening, stinking, unsavory, verminous, vile), výbojný (belligerent), urážlivý (abusive, contumelious, huffish, huffy, hurtful, injurious, invective, obnoxious, outrageous, petulant, shocking, touchy), útok (aggression, assault, attack, brunt, charge, descent, offence, onset, onslaught, raid, rush, storm, strike), útoèný (aggressive, belligerent, rampant). (various references) | |
Danish | offensiv (aggressive). (various references) | |
Dutch | offensief (access, aggression, aggressive, attack), beledigend (abusive, insulting, nasty, opprobrious), aanvallend (aggressive). (various references) | |
Esperanto | ofensiva (aggressive), insulta (insulting, opprobrious), ataka (aggressive), ŝokanta. (various references) | |
Farsi | یورش (Assault, Attack, Offense, Onrush, Onslaught, Pash, Pounce, Raid, Rush, Sally, Sortie), مهاجم (Aggressive, Aggressor, Invader, Raider), متجاوز (Aggressive, Aggressor, Offender, Transgressor, Trespasser, Violator, Wrongdoer), کریه (Detestable, Nasty, Ugly, Unsightly), حمله (Access, Assault, Attack, Charge, Inroad, Offense, Onrush, Onset, Onslaught, Rush, Sally, Spell, Venue), زشت (Awkward, Awry, Backhand, Bad, Bawdy, Black, Execrable, Gash, Gross, Hank, Heinous, Hideous, Homely, Horrid, Invidious, Maladroit, Nefarious, Ugly, Uncouth, Unfavorable, Ungainly, Ungraceful, Unhandsome), اهنانت اور, رنجاننده . (various references) | |
Finnish | pahennusta herättävä (scandalous, shocking), loukkaava (insulting). (various references) | |
French | offensive, offensant. (various references) | |
German | beleidigend (abusive, abusively, affronting, insulting, insultingly, nasty, offending, offensively, slighting, upsetting). (various references) | |
Greek | συνέπεια (aftermath, bearing, coherence, consequence, consistence, consistency, corollary, implication, punctuality), προσβλητικόσ (affrontive, insulting, invective), προσβλητικός (insulting), ενοχλητικόσ (annoying, bothersome, importunate, meddlesome, obtrusive, pesky, plaguy, troublesome, troublous, vexatious, worrisome), επιθετικόσ (adjectival, aggressive, bellicose, combative, irruptive), επίθεση (aggression, application, assault, attack, charge, onrush, onset, onslaught), δυσάρεστοσ επίθεση. (various references) | |
Hebrew | מתקיף (aggressor, assailant, attacker, belligerent, raider), מתקפ" (attack, impulse machine), "תקפי, "תקפ" (assault, attack, offence, onfall, onset, sortie, thrust), "סתערות (assault, attack, dash, offence, onfall, onrush, onslaught, rush, surge). (various references) | |
Hungarian | offenzíva. (various references) | |
Indonesian | gentus (surly), bersifat menyerang (agressive). (various references) | |
Italian | offensiva (push, thrust), oltraggioso (insulting). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | "' (attack, censure, criticism, strike). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | つらにくい (provoking), "うせい (aggression, calibration, composition, constancy, correction, correction of press, fairness, fixed star, future generations, future life, hardness, impartiality, justice, life to come, loud or high-pitched voice, made of steel, matchless, organization, posterity, proofreading, public welfare, rebirth, rectification, regeneration, rehabilitation, reorganization, resuscitation, revision, tropism, unparalleled, Welfare Ministry, younger people), "う'きてき (aggressive), "う'き (attack, censure, criticism, strike), と"でもない (No way!, outrageous, unexpected, What a thing to say!). (various references) | |
Korean | 공세. (various references) | |
Manx | loghtanagh, breinn (blue, blue as film, foetid, foul, loathsome, malodorus, nasty, pestilential, putrid, rancid, rotten, smelly). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | offensiveay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | ofensivo (aggressive, hurtful, injurious, objectionable, obnoxious, rude, shocking, wrongful). (various references) | |
Romanian | ofensivã (aggression, attack, foray, offence, raid), ofensiv (attacking), ofensator (abusive, injurious, insulter, invidious, obloquious, offensively, vexatious), respingãtor (abhorrent, awful, awfully, disagreeable, dreadful, dreadfully, forbidding, foul, fulsome, hideous, infamous, obnoxious, obscene, odious, odiousness, pestilent, rebarbative, repellent, repulsive, repulsively, scurvy, unprepossessing, verminous), neplãcut (acrid, annoying, bad, beastly, bothersome, brackish, dark, disagreeable, dreadful, forbidding, hard, horrid, ill-favored, ill-favoured, nasty, niggling, objectionable, obnoxious, obnoxiously, offensively, provoking, snuffy, sorry, ugly, unlucky, unpleasant, unsavory, unsavoury, unwelcome), jignitor (abusive, cutting, harsh, hurtful, insulting, invidious, obloquious, offensively, reproachful, stinging), dezgustãtor (abominable, disgusting, fulsome, loathsome, loathsomely, nasty, nauseous, obscene, odious, odiously, repugnant, repulsive, scurvy, sickening, unsavory, unsavoury, vile), atac (access, apoplexy, assault, attack, charge, dash, fit, go, inroad, jump off, offence, onset, paroxysm, storm, stroke, touch), agresiv (aggressive, aggressively, peppery, rampant, warlike). (various references) | |
Russian | оскорбительный (abusive, contumelious, humiliating, injurious, insolent, insulting, invidious, mortifying, opprobrious, outrageous, scurrilous). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | ofanzivan, ofanziva, neprijatan (awkward, disagreeable, harsh, nasty, unagreeable, uncongenial, unflattering, ungracious, unkind, unpalatable, unpleasant, unsavory, unsavoury), napadni, napadački (aggressive, assailant, invasive, offensively), napad (aggression, assault, attack, attempt, bout, broadside, offence, offense, onfall, push, strike, thrust, touch), koji vređa (insulting, offending). (various references) | |
Spanish | ofensiva (aggressive, onfall, push). (various references) | |
Swedish | offensiv (aggressive), kränkande (insulting, outrageous, personal, slanderous), förolämpande (insulting), anstötlig (aggravating, invidious, objectionable, obnoxious, scandalous). (various references) | |
Turkish | saldırgan (aggressive, aggressor, assailant, assailer, attacker, get-tough, hard-hitting, invader, militant, pushy, thrusting), saldıran (aggressor, invasive), saldırı (aggression, assault, attack, charge, dash, invasion, offence, offense, onset, onslaught, on-slaught, pounce, raid, scrimmage, scrum, scrummage, thrust), pis (augean, black, dingy, dirty, dungy, effing, filthy, foul, frowzy, goatish, grimy, grubby, impure, mangy, messy, miasmal, miasmatic, miry, mucky, nasty, obnoxious, obscene, scruffy, scummy, slimy, sordid, squalid, unclean, uncleanly), kötü (bad, badly, black, chintzy, devilish, dread, dreadfull, evil, feeble, fierce, grotty, harmful, haunted, hedge, hellish, horrible, horrid, ill, indifferent, iniquitous, lousy, malign, mis-, miscreant, miserable, nasty, nefarious, obnoxious, off, poor, poorly, portentous, purple, rough, seamy, shady, sinister, sticky, stinking, ugly, unhallowed, unrighteous, vicious, wicked, worse, wrongful), iğrenç (abhorrent, abominable, accursed, accurst, cloying, crying, damn, damned, detestable, dirty, disgusting, distasteful, dread, dreadfull, execrable, filthy, foul, frightful, ghoulish, god-awful, grievous, hatable, hateable, hateful, heinous, hideous, horrible, horrid, infernal, loathsome, lousy, mangy, mawkish, nasty, nauseous, noisome, obnoxious, odious, putrid, rancid, rank, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, scummy, shocking, sick, sickening, sickly, slimy, squirmy, stinking, ugly, vile, villainous, yuck), hakaret eden, hücum (access, aggression, assault, attack, bully, charge, dash, forage, incursion, onrush, onset, raid, rush, scrimmage, sortie, storm, thrust), ağir (abusive, important, insulting, light, nasty, serious, slow). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | кривдний (affronting, affrontive, insulting, offending), огидний (abhorrent, abject, abominable, accursed, accurst, antipathetic, antipathetical, atrocious, beastly, bilious, brackish, brutal, carrion, damnable, damned, detestable, disgusting, dreadful, evil, execrable, filthy, ghoulish, grim, hanging, heinous, hideous, horrible, horrid, ill-favored, ill-favoured, loathful, loathsome, mawkish, mucky, nasty, nauseating, nauseous, nefandous, noisome, obnoxious, obscene, odious, pesky, poisonous, putrid, rank, repellent, repulsive, revolting, shocking, snotty, sordid, sour, stinking, underfoot, wicked), образливий (abusive, affronting, affrontive, contumelious, humiliating, injurious, insulting, mortifying, obloquious, obscene, offending, opprobrious, ornery, outrageous, pettish, resentful, slanderous, touchy, umbrageous), непри"мний (acerbic, bad, beastly, brackish, disagreeable, displeased, displeasing, distasteful, grisly, hack, importune, nasty, objectionable, obnoxious, painful, plaguy, poor, provoking, snooty, tedious, ugly, unfavorable, unfavourable, ungracious, ungrateful, unlovable, unloveable, unlovely, unpleasant, unwelcome), наступальний, наступ (advance, attack, offence, offense, push), атака (assault, bash, onfall, onrush, onset), бридкий (abominable, antipathetic, antipathetical, bad, damned, hideous, loathful, nasty, noisome, sickening), противний (abominable, obnoxious, unsavoury, wretched). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | xúc phạm (offendedly, outrageous), thế tấn công, tởm tấn công, sỉ nhục chướng tai gai mắt, sự tấn công (attack, onfall, onset), l m mất lòng; l m nhục, khó chịu; hôi hám; gớm guốc, cuộc tấn công (assault), công kích. (various references) | |
Welsh | ymosodol (aggressive), tramgwyddus (scandalous), sar.haus (insolent, insulting). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | obscenus, obscoena, odiosa, odiosae, odiosam, odiosum, odiosus, rancidus. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Exodus Chapter 8, Verse 14 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Epoihsan de wsautwV kai oi epaoidoi taiV farmakeiaiV autwn exagagein ton sknifa kai ouk hdunanto kai egenonto oi sknifeV en toiV anqrwpoiV kai en toiV tetraposin |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Congregaveruntque eas in inmensos aggeres et conputruit terra |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And thei gedered hem togidere into greet heepes withouten noumbre, and the erthe stonke. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | And they gathred them to gether vppon heppes: so that the lande stanke of them. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And they gathered them together upon heaps: and the land stank. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And they gathered them into heaps: and the land was offensive in smell. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And they put them together in masses, and a bad smell went up from the land. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Exodus Chapter 8, Verse 14 |
| Chinese | 眾 人 把 ' 蛙 聚 " 成 、 遍 地 就 都 腥 臭 。 |
| Croatian | Vraèari pokušaše da svojim vraèanjem stvore komarce, ali nisu mogli. Ljudi i životinje postanu plijenom komaraca. |
| Danish | og man samlede dem sammen i Dynger, så Landet kom til at stinke deraf. |
| Dutch | En zij vergaderden ze samen bij hopen, en het land stonk. |
| Finnish | Ja he kokosivat niitä läjittäin, ja maa rupesi haisemaan. |
| German | Und sie häuften sie zusammen, hier einen Haufen und da einen Haufen, und das Land stank davon. |
| Haitian Creole | Moun peyi Lejip yo ranmase yo fè gwo pil. Toupatou nan peyi a te santi move ak krapo mouri yo. |
| Hungarian | És rakásokba gyûjték azokat össze és a föld megbüszhödék. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Orang Mesir mengumpulkan bangkai katak-katak itu sampai bertimbun-timbun, sehingga seluruh negeri berbau busuk. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Maka dikumpulkan oranglah akan bangkainya bertimbun-timbun, sehingga busuklah bau negeri itu. |
| Italian | I maghi fecero la stessa cosa con le loro magie, per produrre zanzare, ma non riuscirono e le zanzare infierivano sugli uomini e sulle bestie. |
| Korean | 사 람 " 이 모 아 무 " 기 로 " 으 니 땅 에 서 악 취 가 나 " 라 |
| Maori | A apoapohia ana e ratou, puranga atu, puranga atu: a, piro ana te whenua. |
| Norwegian | og de samlet dem i dyngevis, og landet blev fylt med stank. |
| Portuguese | E ajuntaram-nas em montes, e a terra, cheirou mal. |
| Rumanian | Le-au strkns grqmezi, wi yara s`a kmpuyit. |
| Russian | Й УП'ТБМЙ ЙИ Ч ЗТХ"Щ, Й ЧПУУНЕТ"ЕМБ ЪЕНМС. |
| Spanish | Las juntaron en muchos montones, y la tierra apestaba. |
| Swedish | Och man kastade dem tillsammans i högar, här en och där en; och landet uppfylldes av stank. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "offensive": offensively, offensiveness, offensivenesses, offensives. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "offensive": counteroffensive, inoffensive. (additional references) | |
Words containing "offensive": counteroffensives, inoffensively, inoffensiveness, inoffensivenesses. (additional references) | |
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"Offensive" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ofensiva, offensif, offfensive. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "offensive" (pronounced ufe"nsiv) |
| 7 | u f e" n s i v | defensive, inoffensive. |
| 6 | -f e" n s i v | counteroffensive. |
| 5 | -e" n s i v | apprehensive, comprehensive, expensive, extensive, hypertensive, inexpensive, pensive. |
| 4 | -n s i v | expansive, nonresponsive, responsive, unresponsive. |
| 3 | -s i v | abrasive, abusive, adhesive, aggressive, allusive, aversive, coercive, cohesive, collusive, compulsive, conclusive, conducive, convulsive, corrosive, decisive, depressive, derisive, discursive, dismissive, dispersive, divisive, effusive, elusive, erosive, evasive, excessive, exclusive, explosive, expressive, illusive, impassive, impressive, impulsive, incisive, inclusive, inconclusive, indecisive, intrusive, invasive, massive, missive, nonexclusive, obsessive, obtrusive, oppressive, passive, permissive, persuasive, pervasive, possessive, progressive, recessive, reclusive, reflexive, regressive, repressive, repulsive, submissive, subversive, successive, unimpressive, unobtrusive. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-f-f-i-n-o-s-v" | |
-2 letters: offense. | |
-3 letters: envies, envois, eosine, nieves, ovines, venose. | |
-4 letters: envoi, eosin, evens, fiefs, fifes, fines, finos, fives, foins, infos, neifs, neves, nieve, noise, ovens, ovine, seine, seven, sieve, sniff, veins, vines, vinos. | |
-5 letters: effs, eons, even, eves, fees, fens, fief, fife, fine, fino, fins, five, foes, foin, fons, info, ions, neif, neve, nevi, noes. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-f-f-i-n-o-s-v" | |
+1 letter: offensives. | |
+2 letters: inoffensive, offensively. | |
+4 letters: inoffensively, noneffectives, offensiveness. | |
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