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1. The action of attacking an enemy
   - offense [US], offence [Brit, Cdn]

1. Violating or tending to violate or offend against
   "considered such depravity offensive against all laws of humanity"
   - violative
    
2. For the purpose of attack rather than defence
   "offensive weapons"
    
3. Causing anger or annoyance
   "offensive remarks"
    
4. Morally offensive
   - unsavory [US], unsavoury [Brit, Cdn]
    
5. Unpleasant or disgusting especially to the senses
   "offensive odours"
    
6. Substitute a harsher or distasteful term for a mild one
   - dysphemistic
    
7. Causing or able to cause nausea
   - nauseating, nauseous, noisome, queasy, loathsome, sickening, vile, loathful [archaic]

Derived forms: offensives

See also: abhorrent, abusive, aggressive, antipersonnel, assaultive, attacking, charnel, creepy, detestable, disgustful [archaic], disgusting, disrespectful, distasteful, evil, foul, ghastly, ghoulish, harmful, hateful, hideous, hit-and-run, horrid, horrific, hostile, incursive, invading, invasive, loathful [archaic], loathly, loathsome, marauding, morbid, objectionable, obnoxious, obscene, odiferous, odoriferous, offend, offending, offensively, offensiveness, on the offensive, opprobrious, outrageous, predatory, raiding, rank, repellant, repellent, repelling, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, scrimy, scurrilous, sepulchral, skanky, tip-and-run, unpalatable, unpleasant, unwholesome, verminous, wicked, yucky, yukky

Type of: military operation, op, operation

Antonym: defensive, inoffensive

Encyclopedia: Offensive