Offensively

Definitions: Offensively

Offensively

Adverb

1. In an unpleasantly offensive manner; "he smelled offensively unwashed".

2. In an obnoxious manner; "he said so in one of his more offensively intellectually arrogant sentences".

3. In an aggressive manner; "`In this crisis, we must act offensively,' the President said"; "the admiral intends to act offensively in the Mediterranean".

Date "offensively" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

Synonyms: Offensively

Synonyms: objectionably (adv), obnoxiously (adv). (additional references)

Antonyms: defensively (adv), inoffensively (adv). (additional references)

Crosswords: Offensively

English words defined with "offensively": autocratic ♦ blatant, bossy, brash, bumptious ♦ caddish, cheeky, clamant, clamorous ♦ distastefully, dominating ♦ fetid, fetor, foetid, foetor, foul, foul-smelling, funky ♦ high-and-mighty ♦ magisterial, malodor, malodour ♦ nervy, noisome, nosey, nosy ♦ objectionably, obnoxiously ♦ peremptory, personalized, prying, putrid ♦ reek ♦ self-assertive, smelly, smirker, snoopy, stench, stink, stinking, strident ♦ unchivalrous, ungallant, uninjured ♦ vociferous. (references)

Specialty definitions using "offensively": Nasty, Nice ♦ Ugly. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Driving Offensively (reference) Offensively Gross Jokes (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
George Washington	1789-1797	The attempt, however, of an amicable negotiation having been frustrated, the troops have marched to act offensively.
James Madison	1809-1817	Having reached his destination after his knowledge of the war, and possessing discretionary authority to act offensively, he passed into the neighboring territory of the enemy with a prospect of easy and victorious progress.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Offensively" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Offensively" is used about 28 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
Adverb (general)	100%	28	65,706

Language		Translations for "offensively"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		në mënyrë fyese. (various references)

Bulgarian		отвратително (beastly, cursedly, damnably, disgustingly, foully, ghastly, queasily, shocking), противно (nastily). (various references)

Chinese		攻击性 (Offensive). (various references)

Czech		urážlivì. (various references)

French		injurieux. (various references)

German		beleidigend (abusive, abusively, affronting, insulting, insultingly, nasty, offending, offensive, slighting, upsetting). (various references)

Hungarian		támadóan. (various references)

Italian		offensivamente (insultingly). (various references)

Pig Latin		offensivelyay

Portuguese		fedorento (foul, malodorant, malodorous, putrescent, stinking). (various references)

Romanian		ofensator (abusive, injurious, insulter, invidious, obloquious, offensive, vexatious), neplãcut (acrid, annoying, bad, beastly, bothersome, brackish, dark, disagreeable, dreadful, forbidding, hard, horrid, ill-favored, ill-favoured, nasty, niggling, objectionable, obnoxious, obnoxiously, offensive, provoking, snuffy, sorry, ugly, unlucky, unpleasant, unsavory, unsavoury, unwelcome), jignitor (abusive, cutting, harsh, hurtful, insulting, invidious, obloquious, offensive, reproachful, stinging). (various references)

Russian		обидно. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		ofanzivno, uvredljivo (abusively), napadački (aggressive, assailant, invasive, offensive). (various references)

Spanish		ofensivamente. (various references)

Swedish		vidrigt (foully). (various references)

Ukranian		огидно (abhorrently, dreadfully, hideously, nauseatingly, obnoxiously, odiously), образливо (foully, obnoxiously, opprobriously, outrageously), неприємно (disagreeably, nastily, obnoxiously), бридко (beastly, hideously, nastily), противно (nauseatingly). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words ending with "offensively": inoffensively. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "offensively" (pronounced ufe"nsivlē)
9	u f e" n s i v l ē	defensively.
7	-e" n s i v l ē	comprehensively, expensively, extensively, inexpensively, intensively.
5	-s i v l ē	aggressively, cohesively, compulsively, conclusively, decisively, derisively, effusively, excessively, exclusively, explosively, impassively, impressively, impulsively, inconclusively, massively, obsessively, passively, persuasively, progressively, reflexively, successively.
4	-i v l ē	accumulatively, actively, administratively, affectively, affirmatively, alternatively, appreciatively, assertively, attentively, attractively, authoritatively, collectively, comparatively, competitively, consecutively, conservatively, constructively, cooperatively, creatively, cumulatively, deceptively, definitively, distinctively, effectively, exhaustively, figuratively, furtively, imaginatively, instinctively, intuitively, legislatively, negatively, objectively, positively, preemptively, productively, prohibitively, prospectively, protectively, provocatively, qualitatively, relatively, respectively, retroactively, retrospectively, seductively, selectively, sensitively, substantively, tentatively.
3	-v l ē	bravely, gravely, lively, lovely, naively, plaintively, quantitatively.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-e-f-f-i-l-n-o-s-v-y"
	-2 letters: offensive.
	-3 letters: felonies, novelise, olefines.
	-4 letters: elevons, felines, offense, offline, olefine, olefins, oleines, oneself, sniffle, sylvine, yeelins.
	-5 letters: elevon, elfins, eloins, enisle, ensile, envies, envois, envoys, eosine, evenly, feline, felons, felony, filose, finely, flense, insole, leones, lesion, levies, levins, linsey, livens, lysine, nieves, nosily, novels, olefin, oleine, oleins, olives, ovines, senile, sloven, sniffy, snivel.
	Words containing the letters "e-e-f-f-i-l-n-o-s-v-y"
	+2 letters: inoffensively.
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