Synonyms of the word

offensive

• adj. Causing offense; arousing a visceral reaction of disgust, anger, or hatred.
• adj. Relating to an offense or attack, as opposed to defensive.
• adj. (team sports) Having to do with play directed at scoring.
• n. (countable, military) An attack.
• n. (uncountable) The posture of attacking or being able to attack.

abhorrent

• adj. (archaic) Inconsistent with, or far removed from, something; strongly opposed.
• adj. Contrary to something; discordant.
• adj. Abhorring; detesting; having or showing abhorrence; loathing.
• adj. Detestable or repugnant.

abusive

• adj. Wrongly used; perverted; misapplied; unjust; illegal.
• adj. (archaic) Catachrestic.
• adj. (archaic) Full of abuses; practicing abuse; containing abuse, or serving as the instrument of abuse.
• adj. Prone to ill treat by coarse, insulting words or by other ill usage; vituperative; reproachful; scurrilous.
• adj. (obsolete) Tending to deceive; fraudulent.
• adj. (archaic) Given to misusing; also, full of abuses.
• adj. (obsolete) Given to misusing.
• adj. Being physically injurious; characterized by repeated violence.

aggressive

• adj. Tending or disposed to aggress; characterized by aggression; making assaults; unjustly attacking.
• adj. (programming) Of code optimization techniques: exploiting every opportunity to be applied.

antipersonnel

• adj. (military) Designed to kill soldiers.

assaultive

• adj. Confrontational; tending or seeming to assault.

attacking

• v. present participle of attack.
• adj. Carrying out an attack.

charnel

• n. A chapel attached to a mortuary.
• n. A repository for dead bodies.
• adj. Of or relating to a charnel, deathlike, sepulchral.

creepy

• adj. (informal) Producing an uneasy fearful sensation, as of things crawling over one's skin.
• adj. (informal) Strangely repulsive.

detestable

• adj. Stimulating disgust or detestation; offensive; shocking.

disgustful

• adj. (archaic) disgusting, vile.
• adj. Full of disgust.

disgusting

• adj. Causing disgust; repulsive; distasteful.
• v. present participle of disgust.

disrespectful

• adj. lacking respect.

distasteful

• adj. Having a bad or foul taste.
• adj. (figuratively) Unpleasant.
• adj. Offensive.

dysphemistic

• adj. Of, pertaining to, or being a dysphemism.

evil

• adj. Intending to harm; malevolent.
• adj. Morally corrupt.
• adj. Unpleasant, as in 'an evil smell'.
• adj. Producing or threatening sorrow, distress, injury, or calamity; unpropitious; calamitous.
• adj. (obsolete) Having harmful qualities; not good; worthless or deleterious.
• adj. (computing, programming, slang) undesirable; harmful; bad practice.
• n. Moral badness; wickedness; malevolence; the forces or behaviors that are the opposite or enemy of good.
• n. Anything which impairs the happiness of a being or deprives a being of any good; anything which causes…
• n. (obsolete) A malady or disease; especially in the phrase king's evil (scrofula).

foul

• adj. Covered with, or containing unclean matter; dirty.
• adj. (of words or a way of speaking) obscene, vulgar or abusive.
• adj. Detestable, unpleasant.
• adj. Disgusting, repulsive; causing disgust.
• adj. (obsolete) Ugly; homely; poor.
• adj. (of the weather) Unpleasant, stormy or rainy.
• adj. Dishonest or not conforming to the established rules and customs of a game, conflict, test, etc.
• adj. (nautical) Entangled and therefore restricting free movement, not clear.
• adj. (baseball) Outside of the base lines; in foul territory.
• v. (transitive) To make dirty.
• v. (transitive) To besmirch.
• v. (transitive) To clog or obstruct.
• v. (transitive, nautical) To entangle.
• v. (transitive, basketball) To make contact with an opposing player in order to gain advantage.
• v. (transitive, baseball) To hit outside of the baselines.
• v. (intransitive) To become clogged.
• v. (intransitive) To become entangled.
• v. (intransitive, basketball) To commit a foul.
• v. (intransitive, baseball) To hit a ball outside of the baselines.
• n. (sports) A breach of the rules of a game, especially one involving inappropriate contact with an opposing…
• n. (bowling) A (usually accidental) contact between a bowler and the lane before the bowler has released…
• n. (baseball) A foul ball, a ball which has been hit outside of the base lines.

ghastly

• adj. Like a ghost in appearance; death-like; pale; pallid; dismal.
• adj. Horrifyingly shocking.
• adj. Extremely bad.
• adv. In a ghastly manner.

ghoulish

• adj. Of or pertaining to ghouls.
• adj. Of or pertaining to corpses and graverobbing.
• adj. Fascinated by corpses.

harmful

• adj. of a kind likely to be damaging; injurious.

hateful

• adj. Evoking a feeling of hatred.
• adj. Dislikeable.
• adj. Full of hatred.

hideous

• adj. Extremely or shockingly ugly.
• adj. Having a very unpleasant or frightening sound.
• adj. Hateful; shocking.

hit-and-run

• n. Alternative spelling of hit and run.
• adj. Of, pertaining to, or being a hit and run.

horrid

• adj. (archaic) Bristling, rough, rugged.
• adj. Causing horror or dread.
• adj. Offensive, disagreeable, abominable, execrable.

horrific

• adj. Horrifying, causing horror; horrible.

hostile

• adj. Belonging or appropriate to an enemy; showing the disposition of an enemy; showing ill will and malevolence,…
• adj. Aggressive, antagonistic.
• adj. Of a hostile takeover.
• n. (chiefly in the plural) An enemy.

incursive

• adj. characterized by incursion; invasive.

insulting

• adj. Containing insult, or having the intention of insulting.
• v. present participle of insult.
• n. The act of giving insult.

invading

• v. present participle of invade.

invasive

• adj. That invades a foreign country using military force.
• adj. (of a plant or animal) That grows in environments which do not harbor natural enemes, often to the detriment…
• adj. (medicine) (of a carcinoma etc) That invades healthy tissue; (of a procedure) in which part of the body…
• adj. Intrusive on one's privacy.
• n. An invasive organism, as, a plant or animal.

loathly

• adj. loathsome; hideous.
• adv. In a loathsome manner; disgustingly.
• adv. Unwillingly; reluctantly.

loathsome

• adj. highly offensive; sickening, abominable.

marauding

• v. present participle of maraud.
• adj. raiding and pillaging.
• adj. (of an animal) killing in wanton fashion.
• adj. (of an animal) killing domestic animals.
• n. Raiding and pillaging.

morbid

• adj. (originally) Of, or relating to disease.
• adj. (by extension) Taking an interest in unhealthy or unwholesome subjects such as death, decay, disease.
• adj. Suggesting the horror of death; macabre or ghoulish.
• adj. Grisly or gruesome.

nauseating

• adj. causing disgust, revulsion or loathing.
• adj. causing nausea.

nauseous

• adj. Causing nausea; sickening or disgusting.
• adj. (sometimes proscribed) Afflicted with nausea; sick.

noisome

• adj. Morally hurtful or noxious.
• adj. Hurtful or noxious to health; unwholesome, insalubrious.
• adj. Offensive to the senses; disgusting, unpleasant, nauseous; foul, fetid, especially having an undesirable…

objectionable

• adj. Arousing disapproval; worthy of objection; offensive.

obnoxious

• adj. Extremely unpleasant, offensive, very annoying, odious or contemptible.
• adj. (preceded by "to feel") Ashamed; acutely aware of one's own offensive qualities.
• adj. (archaic) exposed to harm or injury.

obscene

• adj. Offensive to current standards of decency or morality.
• adj. Lewd or lustful.
• adj. Disgusting or repulsive.
• adj. (Can we verify^{([fullurl:Wiktionary:Requests for verification/English?? +])} this sense?) Beyond all reason.
• adj. (Can we verify^{([fullurl:Wiktionary:Requests for verification/English?? +])} this sense?) Liable to deprave…

odoriferous

• adj. Having an odor or fragrance.

offence

• n. British spelling standard spelling of offense.

offending

• v. present participle of offend.
• n. The act of committing an offence.
• adj. responsible; to be blamed.

offense

• n. The act of offending.
• n. The state of being offended or displeased; anger; displeasure.
• n. (team sports) (often /ˈɒ fɛns/) A strategy and tactics employed when in position to score; contrasted…
• n. (team sports) (often /ˈɒ fɛns/) The portion of a team dedicated to scoring when in position to do so;…

operation

• n. The method by which a device performs its function.
• n. The method or practice by which actions are done.
• n. The act or process of operating; agency; the exertion of power, physical, mechanical, or moral.
• n. A planned undertaking.
• n. A business or organization.
• n. (medicine) A surgical procedure.
• n. (computing, logic, mathematics) a procedure for generating a value from one or more other values (the…
• n. (military) A military campaign (e.g. Operation Desert Storm).
• n. (obsolete) Effect produced; influence.

opprobrious

• adj. Of or relating to opprobrium or disgrace.
• adj. Tending to cause opprobrium.

outrageous

• adj. Violating morality or decency; provoking indignation or affront.
• adj. (now rare) Fierce, violent.
• adj. Transgressing reasonable limits; extravagant, immoderate.
• adj. Shocking; exceeding conventional behaviour; provocative.

predatory

• adj. Of, or relating to a predator.
• adj. Living by preying on other living animals.
• adj. (figuratively) Exploiting or victimizing others for personal gain.

queasy

• adj. Experiencing or causing nausea or uneasiness, often characterized by an unsettled stomach.
• adj. Easily troubled; squeamish.

raiding

• v. present participle of raid.
• n. The act of carrying out a raid.

rank

• adj. Strong of its kind or in character; unmitigated; virulent; thorough; utter.
• adj. Strong in growth; growing with vigour or rapidity, hence, coarse or gross.
• adj. Suffering from overgrowth or hypertrophy; plethoric.
• adj. Causing strong growth; producing luxuriantly; rich and fertile.
• adj. Strong to the senses; offensive; noisome.
• adj. Having a very strong and bad taste or odor.
• adj. Complete, used as an intensifier (usually negative, referring to incompetence).
• adj. (informal) Gross, disgusting.
• adj. (obsolete) Strong; powerful; capable of acting or being used with great effect; energetic; vigorous; headstrong.
• adj. (obsolete) Inflamed with venereal appetite.
• adv. (obsolete) Quickly, eagerly, impetuously.
• n. A row of people or things organized in a grid pattern, often soldiers [the corresponding term for the…
• n. (music) In a pipe organ, a set of pipes of a certain quality for which each pipe corresponds to one key…
• n. One's position in a list sorted by a shared property such as physical location, population, or quality.
• n. The level of one's position in a class-based society.
• n. a hierarchical level in an organization such as the military.
• n. (taxonomy) a level in a scientific taxonomy system.
• n. (linear algebra) Maximal number of linearly independent columns (or rows) of a matrix.
• n. The dimensionality of an array (computing) or tensor (mathematics).
• n. (chess) one of the eight horizontal lines of squares on a chessboard (i.e., those identified by a number)…
• v. To place abreast, or in a line.
• v. To have a ranking.
• v. To assign a suitable place in a class or order; to classify.
• v. (US) To take rank of; to outrank.

repellant

• adj. Alternative form of repellent.
• n. Alternative form of repellent.

repellent

• adj. tending or able to repel; driving back.
• adj. repulsive, inspiring aversion.
• adj. resistant or impervious to something.
• n. someone who repels.
• n. a substance used to repel insects.
• n. a substance or treatment for a fabric etc to make it impervious to something.

repelling

• v. present participle of repel.

repugnant

• adj. Offensive or repulsive; arousing disgust or aversion.
• adj. (law) Opposed or in conflict.

repulsive

• adj. tending to rouse aversion or to repulse.
• adj. (physics) having the capacity to repel.

revolting

• v. present participle of revolt.
• n. revolution (The action of the verb to revolt).
• adj. repulsive, disgusting.

scrimy

• adj. Unreasonably cheap in expending funds or in spending money.
• adj. Dirty or filthy.

scurrilous

• adj. (of a person) given to vulgar verbal abuse; foul-mouthed.
• adj. (of language) coarse, vulgar, abusive, or slanderous.
• adj. gross, vulgar and evil.

sepulchral

• adj. Relating to a grave or of death; funereal.
• adj. Suggestive of a grave or of death; having a hollow and deep sound.

sickening

• adj. Causing sickness or disgust.
• adj. (LGBT slang) Amazing, fantastic.
• v. present participle of sicken.
• n. The act of making somebody sick.

skanky

• adj. (slang) in the manner of a skank (disreputable woman).
• adj. (British slang) vile.

unpalatable

• adj. unpleasant to the taste.
• adj. (by extension) unpleasant or disagreeable.

unpleasant

• adj. Not pleasant.

unsavory

• adj. Not savory; without flavor.
• adj. Of bad taste; distasteful.
• adj. Making an activity undesirable.
• adj. Disreputable, not respectable, of questionable moral character.

unsavoury

• adj. (British spelling) Alternative spelling of unsavory.

unwholesome

• adj. Not wholesome; unfavorable to health; unhealthy.
• adj. Not sound; diseased; tainted; impaired; defective.
• adj. Indicating unsound health; characteristic of or suggesting an unsound condition, physical or mental; repulsive;…

verminous

• adj. Infested with vermin.
• adj. Actively unpleasant, contemptible, or otherwise reminiscent of vermin.

vile

• adj. Morally low; base; despicable.

violative

• adj. (US) Tending to violate; of or relating to violation.

wicked

• adj. Evil or mischievous by nature.
• adj. (slang) Excellent; awesome; masterful; deeply satisfying.
• adv. (slang, New England, Britain) Very, extremely.
• n. (usually humorous) People who are wicked.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of wick.
• adj. Having a wick.
• adj. (Britain, dialect, chiefly Yorkshire) Infested with maggots.

yucky

• adj. (colloquial, often childish) Of something highly offensive; causing aversion or disgust.