Offensive
Antonyms of OFFENSIVE
- commendable, Relishable, proper, sweet, alluring, restorative, delightful, salubrious, acceptable, kind, nice, immaculate, decorous, pleasing, unexceptionable, encouraged, defensive, becoming, inoffensive, exemplary, laid-back, sanctioned, inviting, likable, healthful, wonderful, healthy, salutary, supported, politically correct, perfect, respectful, endorsed, blameless, pure, enjoyable, creditable, easy, agreeable, guarding, pleasant, calm, easy-going, correct, defending, lovable, complimentary, likeable, appealing, respectable, approved, desirable, spotless.
Synonyms of OFFENSIVE
- fawning, gamey, undignified, air raid, unspeakable, arrant, unfavourable, maggoty, shockingly, throbbing, conventional, violation, vituperous, ponderous, reasy, raiding, uninviting, formal, blue, gross*, unpopular, saucy, ill-bred, push, blackguardly, cheap, hellish, yicky, unregenerate, flipper, dratted, Assailment, forbidding, contumelious, smutty, broken down, molest, combat, forced entrance, lippy, Reechy, funky, vex, derisive, overripe, junto, cockney, distastefully, dissipated, cabal, bawdy, hated, truculent, iniquitous, execrable, not up to par, lascivious, unsympathetic, mean, long-range, unchaste, confederacy, storm, anti-tank, wrenching, rudely, rotten, dull, showy, cheeky, unaesthetic, militancy, barrage, dysphemistic, Weevily, unceremonious, unbearable, inharmonious, campaign, discreditable, ungentlemanly, defamatory, cankerous, assail, offence, surly, wicked, trades union, impure, unrespectable, nauseated, Cramping, odoriferant, come on, punishable, halting, sally, sick, jingoish, advance, objectionable, unbecoming, loathsome, garish, too bad, umbrage, yellow, erosive, invade, yucky, insolent, flagrant, contemptuous, indecorous, over-ripe, inspirational, deprecating, porno, uneatable, depreciating, antipathetic, hurt, effort, profligate, incorrigible, hate crime, anti-personnel, godawful, yecchy, aggressiveness, militaristic, insipid, animal, sleazeball, low, alliance, blood-soaked, domineering, sharp, musty, scurrilous, no good, scuffle, barbaric, seasick, crumbiest, Putrefying, Brigue, caustic, unheard-of, filthy, brash, bootleg, Assailing, contest, unconstitutional, quarrelsome, vitriolic, wraithlike, ghastly, horny, disliked, Gnawing, soldierlike, unsuitable, insubordinate, lawless, spookish, defiled, invasion, nerdy, unfitted, stridulent, unrestrained, disparaging, encroachment, Harassing, aggravating, beset, gauche, sordid, onslaught, reeking, diminishing, insalubrious, orgiastic, unfitting, tasteless, salty, mealymouthed, barfy, Incommunicable, invective, Miasmatical, denigrating, debasing, conflict, dirty, repulsively, camorra, miserable, antiaircraft, labored, lurid, artificial, ignoble, in the gutter, slanderous, unanswerable, insensitive, opprobious, volley, plain-featured, undiscriminating, randy, vexing, crusade, acerbic, malodorous, overkill, unutterable, offending, blunt, atrocious, immodest, libertine, flippant, thankless, cocky, harmful, improper, ill-mannered, encounter, stale, combative, dissolute, bloody, expel, left-handed, salacious, critical, curdled, sickening, reproachful, unlikeable, unholy, mortifying, bad, nameless, noisome, disgraceful, severe, lower, bombing, unappetizing, sharp-tongued, erotic, infernal, ill-favoured, rapacious, grody, X-rated, hateable, battle, Incult, sarcastic, hateful, embarrassing, uncivilized, Loathful, in bad taste, upsetting, annoy, Low-minded, mouthy, glaring, impious, explosive, adulatory, discourtesy, dry, foul-smelling, in opposition, ambush, Storming, sardonic, in arms, violative, ghoulish, bloody-minded, low-down, uncomplimentary, sweet-smelling, inclement, licentious, base, anguishing, amoral, unthankful, coup de main, saber rattling, perverted, unsavory, repulsive, aggressive, lame, sleazy*, chauvinistic, infectious, lousy, torturing, queasy, unwelcome, mordant, Broadsides, scoffing, repellant, pestilential, ill-favored, Bashing, dirty-minded, blameworthy, unclean, aggression, Fescennine, for the birds, disgusting, illicit, mugging, Obsidional, strident, predatory, irritate, megadeath, inconsiderate, pitiful, creepy, bumptious, stomach-churning, imbrued, coarse, lowering, disgustful, unappreciative, Nidorous, brutal, warlike, mawkish, front, undesirable, Armigerous, emetic, unwholesome, Eristic, Torturing., insincere, arrogant, vituperatory, charnel, frightening, harsh-sounding, shuddersome, sore, push back, exasperating, attacking, pernicious, unlovable, lecherous, biting, distasteful, inexcusable, base-minded, unpeaceable, tedious, displeasing, baneful, glitzy, colloquial, jingo, rape, federation, challenging, extreme, annoying, strong, unrepeatable, poltroon, darned, Dang, unrepentant, wise, armed assault, entrenchments, belittling, stinkiest, evil-smelling, stabbing, Uncourtly, nonnuclear, institution, repellently, illbred, deflating, uncouth, out of line, unsightly, cramped, smelly, antipersonnel, smart alecky, vituperative, putrid, individual, lowbred, taboo, the Blitz, harass, Unhospitable, offside, discourteous, purulent, hostility, depraved, unjust, degenerate, unauthorized, maleficent, deprecatory, Scurrile, Outstart, bombardment, septic, miasmic, misdemeanor, not up to snuff, defying description, fresh, slummy, dire, take the offensive, notorious, sanguineous, warpath, pugnacious, shabby, union, grim, shameful, ferocious, grain, boring, banzai attack, uncivil, titillating, onfall, frightful, stuffy, brackish, Besetting, unpeaceful, heavy, live, unpacific, feculent, inroad, sec, ungracious, depreciative, threatening, run against, blitz, uncomfortable, crummy, like, not satisfying, gruff, confabulate, sinister, crushing, Detracting, grotesque, foray, denunciatory, damned, hideous, slovenly, irritating, dreadful, lowdown, gory, forbidden, militant, gruesome, plain-looking, inflaming, maddening, profane, Stenchy, knavish, forced, mannered, Sotadic, effluvious, unhygenic, lewd, impugn, wretched, acid, war, dislikable, commonplace, woeful, Familiar, sad, scathing, onside, chintzy, attempt, grungy, vicious, tussle, unsavoury, invidious, debased, incompatible, jingoistic, advance against, nastily, minimizing, hit-and-run, not good enough, scruffy, deprecative, contemptible, strong-smelling, jarring, malign, Objurgatory, pert, blasphemous, offensive activity, savage, thrustings, disreputable, tip-and-run, Unbeseeming, engagement, racy, unpalatable, not worth, worthless, satiric, troublesome, Darner, Perfumatory, snide, morbid, unlovely, carious, intolerable, Assaulting, loud, disturbing, Detractory, inhuman, crumby, incursive, fighting, smarting, sanguinary, libellous, whiffy, reprehensible, misdemeanour, unsatisfying, enemy, infraction, freemasonry, Lubricous, rebarbative, raucous, grubby, infuriating, scabrous, cruddy, unsporting, blitzkrieg, march against, rancid, tawdry, explicit, harry, smart, brusque, debauched, bellicose, invading, insanitary, mangy, Stridulous, malignant, out of favor, detrimental, Disgracious, wanton, aching, onrush, horrid, smelling, odious, good, squalid, out of place, revoltingly, cooperation, swinish, weisenheiming, scrappy, inexpressible, soldierly, Movements, graceless, injurious, unladylike, a bit much, horrible, advancing, pushing, awkward, fusty, hostile behavior, repellent, slighting, carnal, shocking, murky, air strike, putrefactive, affront, abrasive, unvirtuous, wild, malicious, schlock, malevolent, regrettable, presumptuous, calumnious, nettlesome, putrified, ruttish, deplorable, oppressive, sepulchral, Concupiscent, detestable, miasmal, coalition, outlandish, skanky, indelicate, whiniest, contentious, amphibious attack, Riling, disquieting, suggestive, pornographic, depreciatory, repelling, trigger-happy, dishonorable, broadside, damnable, Reeky, bad-featured, rude, illegal, unattractive, fighting spirit, nasty, Unsolicitous, Ungenteel, sultry, censorious, on the offensive, philistine, curt, insultingly, bloodletting, raw, porn, warmongering, Abasing, hostile act, toxic, besiege, intruding, foul, wounding, vile, excruciating, stinging, unsportsmanlike, operation, antagonistic, gaudy, ribald, spicy, loathly, piercing, whiny, odiferous, grating, Calumniating, polluted, hircine, scurvy, offensive, Battling, unharmonious, distressing, agonizing, perfumy, ignominious, rush, criminal, icky, harrowing, corpselike, denunciative, backhanded, homespun, offensively, blast, galling, abrupt, horrific, ill-famed, unappealing, law-breaking, unconformable, won't do, infiltrations, calamitous, foetid, hostile, Lightning Attack, stinky, grievous, breakthrough, encircle, Reviling, whinier, beastly, vulgar, calumniatory, peremptory, fly-blown, hurtful, grisly, outrageous, tumaceous, combination, unmannerly, warfare, unacceptable, olfactive, Scentful, infiltration, lamentable, olfactory, incursion, abusive, Frowy, Goatish, undescribable, crass, bad-smelling, warring, libelous, ungentle, unsanitary, opprobrious, bias crime, loutish, foul-mouthed, syndicate, murderous, insolently, sortie, cyprian, horrifying, forceful, cute, assaultive, homely, infamous, loose, unlikable, gross, full of fight, perverse, egregious, obscene, intrusive, marauding, rough, Assertory, unseemly, Mitigating, enormous, tactless, Ithyphallic, scummier, unmentionable, shelling, frowsty, rank, sinful, baleful, sweet-scented, fecal, nauseant, ugly, manoeuvre, bloodshed, accursed, cursed, unworthy, uncool, bloodthirsty, hairy*, scornful, despicable, disagreeable, Euphuistic, ungraceful, dingy, impertinent, Castigating, tormenting, association, turned, spoiled, assault, awful-looking, impolite, humiliating, not deserving, Unhandsome, putrescent, strike, unloved, chafing, worst, undeserving, inimical, Rampancy, descent on, bitter, sensual, sassy, Maligning, ill-smelling, off-color, tabu, inelegant, vexatious, seamy, terrible, unprintable, displease, verminous, seedy, stinking, salvo, nuclear, Paphian, fulsome, monstrous, barnyard, discordant, Vilifying, inedible, Reasty, in poor taste, Enraging, burdensome, irreverent, repugnant, demeaning, off-base, unprepossessing, unlawful, rile, scandalous, unwanted, harsh, diversion, impudent, Familiarly, corrupt, injury, bold, moldy, painful, upbraiding, backhand, pungent, Traducing, sour, determined, diversionary attack, fetid, naughty, lustful, plain, unpleasing, entrenchment, thersitical, scramble, sacrilegious, insulting, unpropitious, inglorious, sloppy, action, counteroffensive, disrespectful, abusively, struggle, nauseous, terrific, hawkish, Irksome, brutish, institute, raunchy, degraded, Soily, Affronting, Angering, evil-minded, shock tactics, hard core, reject, mephitic, sickie, brazen, barbarous, cutting, impossible, wrongful, acute, high, aggravated assault, transgress, obnoxiously, sycophantic, festering, libidinous, broad, grimy, abominable, insufferable, idiomatic, violate, insufficient, earthy, dreary, Miasmatic, lubricious, freestyle, initiative, off-putting, awful, below contempt, adverse, repulsive-looking, macabre, contempt, turgid, scatological, muggings, revolting, immoral, sulfurous, incensing, grueling, martial, assertive, disruptive, invasive, brassy, confederation, savorless, affected, abhorrent, disagreeing, distressful, off-limits, evil, out-of-line, appalling, fight, charge, honeyed, Graveolent, villainous, tinsel, bother, shameless, odoriferous, unpolished, against the grain, dirty deed, chauvinist, hot, unrefined, gladiatorial, run at, condemnation, counterattack, poisonous, illegitimate, trying, common, stenchful, Plaguing, forward, society, boorish, unpleasantly, odorous, unfriendly, oafish, felonious, Aspersive, trenchant, mucky, Obloquious, pettish, offend, foul-spoken, pitiable, beyond words, flat, junky, fierce, insult, Rankling, muddy, frowzy, stenchiest, nauseating, derisory, rollback, tainted, uneasy, crude, personal, military, mildewy, shoddy, dissonant, onset, scent-laden, off, Inconsonant, belligerent, withering, offense, Sotadean, beneath contempt, dusty, pain, unfeminine, off limits, unmerited, sleazy, descent, Rabidity, unthinkable, Olid, unpleasant, unsatisfactory, unsophisticated, exceptionable, bothersome, jihad, jingoist, Mildewed, unflattering, officious, satyric, LOUTY, untidy, not fit, derogatory, actionable, indecent, indefinable, stomach-turning, rascally, league, clumsy, gamy, coarse-grained, caddish, sexy, ructious, Abhorred, Black-hearted, arduous, nefarious, encroaching, camarilla, horrendous, ungrateful, destructive, stiff, harm, party spirit, inflammatory, lusty, noxious, intimate, infringement, drive, guerre, raid, unlicensed, Untasteful, heart-rending, inappropriate, scolding, HIT, drumfire, scrimy, attack, Savorous, pushy, slimy, uncongenial, cruel, verboten, obnoxious, provocative, prurient, degrading, pathological, begrimed, cloying, scuzzy, rummy, heinous, nervy, unfit, fall on, skunky, dissatisfactory.
Examples of usage:
-
It is true that the Confederates were no more fit for offensive operations than McDowell's troops. "Stonewall Jackson And The American Civil War" by G. F. R. Henderson
-
Besides, more than one complaint of her offensive arrogance had reached him. "The Complete Historical Romances of Georg Ebers" by Georg Ebers
