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