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Synonyms for Offensive (same or very similar meaning)

WordNet sense 1 (causing or able to cause nausea):
nauseating, nauseous, noisome, queasy, sickening, vile

WordNet sense 2 (violating or tending to violate or offend against):
violative

WordNet sense 3 (offending against or breaking a law or rule):
offending

WordNet sense 4 (involving invasion or aggressive attack):
invading

WordNet sense 5 (causing disapproval or protest):
obnoxious

WordNet sense 6 (grossly offensive to decency or morality; causing horror):
hideous, horrid, outrageous

WordNet sense 7 (highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust):
disgusting, distasteful, foul, loathsome, repellent, revolting, wicked, yucky, disgustful, loathly, repellant, repelling, skanky, wicked

WordNet sense 8 (gruesomely indicative of death or the dead):
ghastly

WordNet sense 9 (offensive to the mind):
abhorrent, detestable, repugnant, repulsive

WordNet sense 10 (disposed to attack):
attacking

WordNet sense 11 (expressing offensive reproach):
abusive, insulting, opprobrious, scurrilous

WordNet sense 12 (morally offensive):
unsavory, unsavoury

WordNet sense 13 (the action of attacking an enemy):
offense, offence, offense

WordNet sense 14 (of an offensive substitute for inoffensive terminology):
dysphemistic


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