Nouns (3)
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offense, offence, offensive
n. the action of attacking an enemy
Verbs (0)
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Adverbs (0)
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Adjectives (22)
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offensive
adj. causing anger or annoyance; "offensive remarks"
offensive
adj. for the purpose of attack rather than defense; "offensive weapons"
offensive
adj. (dysphemistic)
offensive, ugly
adj. deficient or offensive from lack of beauty: "ugly gray slums"
offensive, loathsome
adj. causing or able to cause nausea; "a nauseating smell"; "nauseous offal"; "a sickening stench"
dysphemistic, offensive
adj. substitute a harsher or distasteful term for a mild one ; "`nigger' is a dysphemistic term for `African-American'"
offensive, unpleasant
adj. disagreeable to the sense
unsavory, unsavoury, offensive
adj. morally offensive; "an unsavory reputation"; "an unsavory scandal"
nauseating, nauseous, noisome, queasy, loathsome, offensive, sickening, vile
adj. causing or able to cause nausea; "a nauseating smell"; "nauseous offal"; "a sickening stench"
Fuzzynyms (138)
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assault
n. close fighting during the culmination of a military attack
invasion
n. the act of invading; the act of an army that invades for conquest or plunder
inroad
n. an invasion or hostile attack
incursion
n. the mistake of incurring liability or blame
charge
n. an impetuous rush toward someone or something; "the wrestler's charge carried him past his adversary"; "the battle began with a cavalry charge"
impudent, insolent, snotty-nosed, flip
adj. marked by casual disrespect; "a flip answer to serious question"; "the student was kept in for impudent behavior"
contemptuous, disdainful, insulting, scornful
adj. expressing extreme contempt
discourteous
adj. showing no courtesy; rude; "a distant and at times discourteous young"
impolite
adj. not polite
uncivil, rude
adj. lacking civility or good manners; "want nothing from you but to get away from your uncivil tongue"- Willa Cather
sick
adj. deeply affected by a strong feeling; "sat completely still, sick with envy"; "she was sick with longing"
ugly
adj. displeasing to the senses; "an ugly face"; "ugly furniture"
unpleasant
adj. disagreeable to the senses, to the mind, or feelings ; "an unpleasant personality"; "unpleasant repercussions"; "unpleasant odors"
uninviting
adj. neither attractive nor tempting
abhorrent, detestable, obscene, repugnant, repulsive
adj. offensive to the mind; "an abhorrent deed"; "the obscene massacre at Wounded Knee"; "morally repugnant customs"; "repulsive behavior"; "the most repulsive character in recent novels"
unappealing
adj. not able to attract favorable attention; "they have made the place as unappealing as possible"; "was forced to talk to his singularly unappealing hostess"
unsightly
adj. unpleasant to look at; "unsightly billboards"
ungrateful
adj. disagreeable; "I will not perform the ungrateful task of comparing cases of failure"- Abraham Lincoln
disgusting, disgustful, distasteful, foul, loathly, loathsome, repellent, repellant, repelling, revolting, skanky, wicked, yucky
adj. highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust; "a disgusting smell"; "distasteful language"; "a loathsome disease"; "the idea of eating meat is repellent to me"; "revolting food"; "a wicked stench"
rebarbative, repellent, repellant
adj. serving or tending to repel; "he became rebarbative and prickly and spiteful"; "I find his obsequiousness repellent"
unattractive
adj. lacking power to arouse interest; "being unemployed is a most unattractive prospect"
racy
adj. designed or suitable for competing in a race
immodest
adj. offending against sexual mores in conduct or appearance
cruddy, filthy, foul, nasty, smutty
adj. characterized by obscenity; "had a filthy mouth"; "foul language"; "smutty jokes"
hateful
adj. evoking or deserving hatred; "no vice is universally as hateful as ingratitude"- Joseph Priestly
bilious, liverish, livery
adj. suffering from or suggesting a liver disorder or gastric distress
abominable, detestable, execrable, odious
adj. unequivocally detestable; "abominable treatment of prisoners"; "detestable vices"; "execrable crimes"; "consequences odious to those you govern"- Edmund Burke
flagitious, heinous
adj. extremely wicked, deeply criminal; "a flagitious crime"; "heinous accusations"
nauseated, nauseous, queasy, sick, sickish
adj. feeling nausea; feeling about to vomit
dainty, nice, overnice, prissy, squeamish
adj. excessively fastidious and easily disgusted; "too nice about his food to take to camp cooking"; "so squeamish he would only touch the toilet handle with his elbow"
abusive, opprobrious, scurrilous
adj. expressing offensive reproach
derisive, gibelike, jeering, mocking, taunting
adj. abusing vocally; expressing contempt or ridicule; "derisive laughter"; "a jeering crowd"; "her mocking smile"; "taunting shouts of `coward' and `sissy'"
detractive
adj. causing to decrease in importance or value; "detractive influences on the volume of investment"
calumniatory, calumnious, defamatory, denigrative, denigrating, denigratory, libellous, libelous, slanderous
adj. (used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign
distasteful, unsavory, unsavoury
adj. not pleasing in odor or taste
bland, flat, flavorless, flavourless, insipid, savorless, savourless, vapid
adj. lacking taste or flavor or tang; "a bland diet"; "insipid hospital food"; "flavorless supermarket tomatoes"; "vapid beer"; "vapid tea"
tasteless
adj. lacking flavor
nasty, awful
adj. offensive or even (of persons) malicious; "in a nasty mood"; "a nasty accident"; "a nasty shock"; "a nasty smell"; "a nasty trick to pull"; "Will he say nasty things at my funeral?"- Ezra Pound
coarse, common
adj. of low or inferior quality or value; "of what coarse metal ye are molded"- Shakespeare; "produced...the common cloths used by the poorer population"
profane, secular
adj. not concerned with or devoted to religion; "sacred and profane music"; "secular drama"; "secular architecture", "children being brought up in an entirely profane environment"
crimson, red, violent
adj. characterized by violence or bloodshed; "writes of crimson deeds and barbaric days"- Andrea Parke; "fann'd by Conquest's crimson wing"- Thomas Gray; "convulsed with red rage"- Hudson Strode
bloody
adj. having or covered with or accompanied by blood; "a bloody nose"; "your scarf is all bloody"; "the effects will be violent and probably bloody"; "a bloody fight"
ghastly, grim, grisly, gruesome, macabre, sick
adj. shockingly repellent; inspiring horror; "ghastly wounds"; "the grim aftermath of the bombing"; "the grim task of burying the victims"; "a grisly murder"; "gruesome evidence of human sacrifice"; "macabre tales of war and plague in the Middle ages"; "macabre tortures conceived by madmen"
atrocious, frightful, horrifying, horrible, ugly
adj. provoking horror; "an atrocious automobile accident"; "a frightful crime of decapitation"; "an alarming, even horrifying, picture"; "war is beyond all words horrible"- Winston Churchill; "an ugly wound"
caitiff
adj. despicably mean and cowardly
infernal
adj. being of the underworld; "infernal regions"
damnable, execrable
adj. deserving a curse; "her damnable pride"
nefarious, villainous
adj. extremely wicked; "nefarious schemes"; "a villainous plot"; "a villainous band of thieves"
despicable, ugly, vile, slimy, unworthy, worthless, wretched
adj. morally reprehensible; "would do something as despicable as murder"; "ugly crimes"; "the vile development of slavery appalled them"; "a slimy little liar"
contemptible
adj. deserving of contempt or scorn
Synonyms (52)
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inartistic, unartistic
adj. lacking aesthetic sensibility;
tasteless
adj. (inaesthetic)
insalubrious, unhealthful, unhealthy
adj. detrimental to health
insubstantial, jejune
adj. lacking in nutritive value; "the jejune diets of the very poor"
morbid
adj. suggesting an unhealthy mental state; "morbid interest in death"; "morbid curiosity"
noisome, noxious
adj. causing or able to cause nausea; "a nauseating smell"; "nauseous offal"; "a sickening stench"
exasperating, infuriating, maddening, vexing
adj. extremely annoying or displeasing; "his cavelier curtness of manner was exasperating"; "I've had an exasperating day"; "her infuriating indifference"; "the ceaseless tumult of the jukebox was maddening"
disconcerting, upsetting
adj. causing an emotional disturbance; "his disconcerting habit of greeting friends ferociously and strangers charmingly"- Herb Caen; "an upsetting experience"
abhorrent, detestable, obscene, repugnant, repulsive
adj. offensive to the mind; "an abhorrent deed"; "the obscene massacre at Wounded Knee"; "morally repugnant customs"; "repulsive behavior"; "the most repulsive character in recent novels"
gross, swinish, bestial
adj. ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behavior or appearance; "was boorish and insensitive"; "the loutish manners of a bully"; "her stupid oafish husband"; "aristocratic contempt for the swinish multitude"
charnel, ghastly, sepulchral
adj. gruesomely indicative of death or the dead; "a charnel smell came from the chest filled with dead men's bones"; "ghastly shrieks"; "the sepulchral darkness of the catacombs"
rank
adj. very offensive in smell or taste; "a rank cigar"
disgusting, disgustful, distasteful, foul, loathly, loathsome, repellent, repellant, repelling, revolting, skanky, wicked, yucky
adj. highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust; "a disgusting smell"; "distasteful language"; "a loathsome disease"; "the idea of eating meat is repellent to me"; "revolting food"; "a wicked stench"
ghoulish, morbid
adj. suggesting the horror of death and decay; "morbid details"
hideous, horrid, horrific, outrageous
adj. grossly offensive to decency or morality; causing horror; "subjected to outrageous cruelty"; "a hideous pattern of injustice"; "horrific conditions in the mining industry"
objectionable, obnoxious
adj. causing disapproval or protest; "a vulgar and objectionable person"
scrimy
adj. dirty and disgusting; "worry about the gossip and secretiveness and other scrimy sides"- Al Hine
verminous
adj. of the nature of vermin; very offensive or repulsive
Antonyms (13)
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unoffending
adj. not offending; "an unoffending motorist should not have been stopped"
defensive
adj. intended or appropriate for defending against or deterring aggression or attack; "defensive weapons"; "a defensive stance"
euphemistic, inoffensive
adj. substituting a mild term for a harsher or distasteful one; "`peepee' is a common euphemistic term"
pleasing
adj. giving pleasure and satisfaction; "a pleasing piece of news"; "pleasing in manner and appearance"
lovely
adj. appealing to the emotions as well as the eye
fetching, taking, winning
adj. very attractive; capturing interest; "a fetching new hairstyle"; "something inexpressibly taking in his manner"; "a winning personality"
good
adj. capable of pleasing; "good looks"
attractive
adj. having power to arouse interest; "an attractive opportunity"; "the job is attractive because of the pay"
savory, savoury
adj. morally wholesome or acceptable; "a past that was scarcely savory"
offensive
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