See Also: offensive 1, adjective(dictionary)
offensive(dictionary)
Offensive(medicine)
offensive 2, noun(dictionary)
Offensive Board - Basketball(gambling)
Offensive Zone - Ice Hockey(gambling)
Offensive Wrestler - Wrestling(gambling)
Offensive Player - Soccer(gambling)
Offensive Team - Basketball(gambling)
Offensive Rebound - Basketball(gambling)

offensive 1, adjective (oh)



very rude or insulting and likely to upset people
-opposite inoffensive inoffensive
::I found her remarks deeply offensive .
offensive to
::crude jokes that are offensive to women
::offensive behaviour
formal very unpleasant
::an offensive smell
[only before noun] for attacking
-see also defensive 1 (1)
::Jan was convicted of possessing an offensive weapon .
::The troops took up offensive positions.
AmE relating to getting points and winning a game, rather than stopping the other team from getting points
-opposite defensive defensive
::the Jets' offensive strategy
-- offensively adv
::Rick's remarks were offensively racist.
-- offensiveness n [U]