1. (noun)offense, offence, offensive the action of attacking an enemy
2. (adj)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"
3. (adj)offensive for the purpose of attack rather than defense "offensive weapons"
6. (adj)offensive unpleasant or disgusting especially to the senses
"offensive odors"
7. (adj)dysphemistic, offensive substitute a harsher or distasteful term for a mild one
"`nigger' is a dysphemistic term for `African-American'"
8. (adj)nauseating, nauseous, noisome, queasy, loathsome, offensive, sickening, vile causing or able to causenausea "a nauseating smell"; "nauseous offal"; "a sickening stench"
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