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 offensive [ә'fensiv]   添加此单词到默认生词本
a. 令人不快的, 侮辱的, 攻击性的

[法] 攻击的, 进攻的, 冒犯的




    offensive
    [ noun ]
    1. the action of attacking an enemy

      2. <noun.act>
    [ adj ]
    1. for the purpose of attack rather than defense

      2. <adj.all>
      offensive weapons
    2. causing anger or annoyance

      3. <adj.all>
      offensive remarks
    3. morally offensive

      4. <adj.all>
      an unsavory reputation
      an unsavory scandal
    4. unpleasant or disgusting especially to the senses

      5. <adj.all>
      offensive odors
    5. substitute a harsher or distasteful term for a mild one

      6. <adj.all>
      `nigger' is a dysphemistic term for `African-American'
    6. violating or tending to violate or offend against

      7. <adj.all>
      violative of the principles of liberty
      considered such depravity offensive against all laws of humanity
    7. causing or able to cause nausea

      8. <adj.all>
      a nauseating smell
      nauseous offal
      a sickening stench


    Offensive \Of*fen"sive\, n.
    The state or posture of one who offends or makes attack;
    aggressive attitude; the act of the attacking party; --
    opposed to {defensive}.

    {To take the offensive}, {To act on the offensive}, {To go on
    the offensive}, to be the attacking party; to initiate
    hostilities.
    [1913 Webster +PJC]


    Offensive \Of*fen"sive\, a. [Cf. F. offensif. See {Offend}.]
    1. Giving offense; causing displeasure or resentment;
    displeasing; annoying; as, offensive words.

    2. Giving pain or unpleasant sensations; disagreeable;
    revolting; noxious; as, an offensive smell; offensive
    sounds. ``Offensive to the stomach.'' --Bacon.

    3. Making the first attack; assailant; aggressive; hence,
    used in attacking; -- opposed to {defensive}; as, an
    offensive war; offensive weapons.

    {League offensive and defensive}, a leaque that requires all
    the parties to it to make war together against any foe,
    and to defend one another if attacked.

    Syn: Displeasing; disagreeable; distasteful; obnoxious;
    abhorrent; disgusting; impertinent; rude; saucy;
    reproachful; opprobrious; insulting; insolent; abusive;
    scurrilous; assailant; attacking; invading.
    ※ -- {Of*fen"sive*ly}, adv. --
    {Of*fen"sive*ness}, n.

    1. "As commander of the armed forces I exhort every single soldier in a total offensive to destroy the enemy, eliminate him, wipe out his will to fight," Samudio said.
    2. A spokesman for Kurdish rebels said Wednesday that Iraqi troops were massing for an all-out offensive against the guerrillas, who are supported by Iran.
    3. Wilder challenged a decade of political wisdom by taking the offensive with commercials on abortion on television, where pro-choice and right-to-life groups have both spent heavily on commercials as well.
    4. Mr. Easdon also plans a new-business offensive, starting with two pitches already identified by the agency.
    5. Jewish groups have said the convent and the placement of religious symbols at Auschwitz, including a 23-foot-high cross, is deeply offensive to them.
    6. The fighting Saturday came on the third day of an offensive aimed at driving President Samuel Doe from power before a West African force arrives to try to end the 7-month-old civil war.
    7. The rightist government of President Alfredo Cristiani has accused the leftist Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front of "kidnapping" hundreds of young men in recent weeks, allegedly to replace losses suffered in the offensive.
    8. The offensive began shortly after the Soviet Union withdrew troops supporting the government forces.
    9. Six bombings in Johannesburg in a week, including an attack July 6 on a black bus station that injured 24 people, are seen as the first major offensive by the right wing.
    10. A third of the Clintons' friends, Mr Vince Foster, another White House lawyer, was found dead last summer, in an apparent suicide. Mr Hubbell's resignation comes just as the administration seemed to be taking the offensive in the Whitewater affair.
    11. The suggestion is "bizarre and offensive," Roger R. Smith, Live's acting president, said on Monday.
    12. Oliveri said later he found nothing offensive about the bare bottom of the Coppertone girl, which is displayed on a billboard eight blocks away.
    13. The drug cartels responded with an offensive of their own. Police blame them for hundreds of bombings and other attacks that have left nearly 300 people dead.
    14. Another offensive on the war in neighboring El Salvador could send more refugees to the country.
    15. Previous crackdowns, although not as intense as the current offensive, have petered out in a few weeks.
    16. He doesn't name names, but he says 75% of the Steeler offensive linemen took them, and 50% of the players who manned the team's "power positions" (the offensive and defensive lines, and linebackers).
    17. He doesn't name names, but he says 75% of the Steeler offensive linemen took them, and 50% of the players who manned the team's "power positions" (the offensive and defensive lines, and linebackers).
    18. The offensive has included raids and seizures at more than 700 estates, businesses and other properties owned by or linked to Colombia's powerful cocaine cartels.
    19. Mr. Garron responds that any manager too preoccupied to keep tabs on workers' offensive behavior "is in deep sneakers."
    20. The radio, monitored in Nicosia, said the Iraqis launched the offensive at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday.
    21. One or the other led the league in seven offensive categories.
    22. Japan's labor unions mount a so-called spring offensive each April in a bid to improve annual contracts, and the rank and file tend to follow patterns set by the largest companies.
    23. On the offensive are the various human-rights advocates, who have tirelessly sought to portray all vigilantes, without exception, as right-wing death squads or murderous fanatics.
    24. Legislators concerned about racially offensive marketing practices by some Japanese companies are calling for an end to derogatory representations of blacks and warning of a possible boycott if changes aren't made.
    25. Some feared the offensive would move the government away, not toward, negotiations by strengthening the hand of the ultra-rightists in President Alfredo Cristiani's Nationalist Republican Alliance who have long been accused of links to death squads.
    26. Some find this sort of thing offensive, arguing that an organization with as much power as the Fed should be more accountable to the citizenry and their elected representatives in a democracy.
    27. Rebels attacked Monrovia on Monday in a two-pronged offensive that cut all major land routes from the capital, according to a pool report filed by journalists there.
    28. Jane's publisher Paul Beaver said it was a clear indication the Iraqis were trying to obtain offensive military equipment by gaining access to the East German BLG-60 tracked vehicles.
    29. Carlos Hurtado, an adviser to the Nicaraguan Resistance, the Contra umbrella organization, told The Associated Press the talks would be suspended if the offensive continued.
    30. But no concessions have been volunteered by the unions, which are taking new offensive measures.
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