offensive

Etymology
From, from +  by analogy with. Offendre is from ; see offend.

Adjective

 * 1) Causing offense; arousing a visceral reaction of disgust, anger, hatred, sadness, or indignation.
 * 2) Relating to an offense or attack, as opposed to defensive.
 * 3)  Having to do with play directed at scoring.
 * 1) Relating to an offense or attack, as opposed to defensive.
 * 2)  Having to do with play directed at scoring.
 * 1) Relating to an offense or attack, as opposed to defensive.
 * 2)  Having to do with play directed at scoring.
 * 1)  Having to do with play directed at scoring.
 * 1)  Having to do with play directed at scoring.
 * 1)  Having to do with play directed at scoring.

Collocations

 * offensive content
 * offensive language
 * offensive material
 * offensive word
 * offensive comment
 * offensive remark
 * offensive statement
 * offensive speech
 * offensive joke
 * offensive humor
 * offensive image
 * offensive picture
 * offensive art
 * offensive behavior
 * offensive conduct
 * offensive act
 * offensive action

Translations

 * Armenian:
 * Belarusian: абра́злівы
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish: stødende, anstødelig
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Esperanto: ofenda
 * Finnish:, päällekäyvä,
 * French:
 * Galician: ofensivo
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:, , ,
 * Ido:, , ,
 * Indonesian:, tidak sopan
 * Japanese:, ,
 * Khmer:
 * Latin: taeter, offensus, repudiōsus
 * Macedonian: навредлив
 * Maori: weriweri, hākiki, mataharehare, koeo, pūraurau , taratara, harehare , penopeno , harehare, mōrihariha, mōrikarika
 * Mongolian:
 * Occitan: ofensant
 * Plautdietsch: prost
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: oilbheumach
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: уврѐдљив
 * Roman:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: обра́зливий
 * Vietnamese: ,


 * Belarusian: наступа́льны
 * Bulgarian:
 * Danish: offensiv
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * French:
 * Galician: ofensivo
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: offensiv
 * Nynorsk: offensiv
 * Occitan:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Ukrainian: наступа́льний


 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 進攻性
 * Danish: offensiv
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:, hyökkäys-
 * French:
 * Galician: ofensivo
 * German:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 攻撃側
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: offensiv
 * Nynorsk: offensiv
 * Occitan:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:

Noun

 * 1)  An attack.
 * 2)  The posture of attacking or being able to attack.
 * 1)  The posture of attacking or being able to attack.
 * 1)  The posture of attacking or being able to attack.

Translations

 * Albanian: ,
 * Arabic: هُجُوم, حَمْلَة, هَجْمَة
 * Armenian: ,
 * Azerbaijani:, həmlə
 * Bashkir: һөжүм
 * Belarusian: на́ступ, ата́ка
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech: ofenzíva,, napadení
 * Danish: offensiv
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Esperanto: ofensivo
 * Estonian: pealetung, ofensiiv
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Georgian: შეტევა,
 * German: ,
 * Hebrew: הַתְקָפָה
 * Hindi: ,
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Igbo: offensive
 * Japanese: ,
 * Kazakh: шабуыл
 * Korean: ,
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Latvian: ofensīva, uzbrukums
 * Lithuanian: ofenzyva, puolimas
 * Macedonian: офанзи́ва, напад
 * Malay: ofensif
 * Malayalam:
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: offensiv
 * Nynorsk: offensiv
 * Occitan:
 * Pashto:, هجوم
 * Persian: ,
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: офензи́ва, офанзи́ва, на́пад
 * Roman:, ,
 * Slovak: ofenzíva, útok, napadnutie
 * Slovene: ofenziva,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tajik: ҳуҷум, ҳамла
 * Tatar:
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:, ,
 * Turkmen: hüjüm
 * Ukrainian: на́ступ, ,
 * Urdu: حملہ
 * Uyghur: ھۇجۇم
 * Uzbek: ,
 * Vietnamese:


 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: hyökkäyskannalla
 * French:
 * Italian:
 * Occitan:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:

Etymology 1
First attested 1417; formed from, from.

Noun

 * 1)   an attack