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offensive

adjective

violating or tending to violate or offend against; "violative of the principles of liberty"; "considered such depravity offensive against all laws of humanity"
Synonyms: violative Similar: offending
for the purpose of attack rather than defense; "offensive weapons"
Antonyms: defensive Similar: antipersonnel, assaultive, attacking, hit-and-run, tip-and-run, incursive, invading, invasive, marauding, predatory, raiding, on the offensive
causing anger or annoyance; "offensive remarks"
Antonyms: inoffensive, unoffending Similar: abusive, insulting, opprobrious, scornful, scurrilous
morally offensive; "an unsavory reputation"; "an unsavory scandal"
Synonyms: unsavory, unsavoury Antonyms: savory, savoury, inoffensive Similar: odoriferous
unpleasant or disgusting especially to the senses; "offensive odors"
Antonyms: inoffensive Similar: abhorrent, detestable, obscene, repugnant, repulsive, charnel, ghastly, sepulchral, creepy, disgusting, disgustful, distasteful, foul, loathly, loathsome, repellent, repellant, repelling, revolting, skanky, wicked, yucky, ghoulish, morbid, hideous, horrid, horrific, outrageous, objectionable, obnoxious, unpleasant, rank, scrimy, verminous
of an offensive substitute for inoffensive terminology; "`nigger'' is a dysphemistic term for `African-American''"
Synonyms: dysphemistic Antonyms: euphemistic, inoffensive
causing or able to cause nausea; "a nauseating smell"; "nauseous offal"; "a sickening stench"
Synonyms: loathsome, nauseating, nauseous, noisome, sickening, vile Similar: unwholesome

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noun

the action of attacking an enemy
Synonyms: offence, offense

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