The definition of offensive is something, that can provoke feelings of hurt, anger, disgust, disapproval or resentment, or something associated with an aggressive attack.
It has a lot to do with crime or assault instead of self-defense.
Offensive Words with Meanings – A to Z
Following are commonly spoken offensive words around the world along with their meanings:
- Abnegation: the contradiction and rejection or belief
- Abrogate: pull out formally
- Abscond: run away, often taking something
- Abstruse: tough to know, profound or perplexed
- Accede: seek another’s wish or opinion or consent
- Aggrandize: surge the scope, power, or importance
- Alacrity: liveliness and eagerness
- Alias: a name that is called and has been expected temporarily
- Amorphous: with no definite form or having different shape
- Anachronistic: chronologically misplaced
- Beguile: motivated by the skills
- Bereaved: mourning or deprived of something
- Blandishment: cajolery to influence
- Bilk: cheat somebody, especially money
- Bombastic: showily and proud in style
- Camaraderie: the quality to afford easy familiarity and sociability
- Candor: honest and straightforward
- Capitulate: Surrendering with consent or agreement
- Carouse: Get drunk and does merrymaking
- Carp: freshwater fish
- Caucus: Selection of a candidate by the committee members
- Cavort: play rowdily
- Cleave: separate or cut with a tool
- Cobbler: a person who repairs and make shoes
- Cogent: Influential, forceful
- Cognizant: knowing, or showing knowledge
- Commensurate: corresponding in size or extent
- Complement: make perfect, something is added, praise
- Compunction: a feeling of deep regret, for misdeed
- Concomitant: accompanying as a consequence, connected
- Congruity: the quality to agree, suitable and appropriate
- Connive: scheme, conspire to do something
- Consign: give over for caring and supporting
- Constituent: one of the individual essential part for making up a composite entity
- Demagogue: a leader seeking support by appealing for popular passions
- Denigrate: attacking on the reputation of someone
- Derivative: a compound obtained from another compound
- Despot: a cruel, dictator
- Diaphanous: so thin to transmit even a light
- Didactic: instructive, moral,
- Dirge: a song or hymn or chanting
- Equanimity: calmness of mind under stress
- Forbearance: tolerance, self-control, or restraint
- Fractious: easily irritated or annoyed
- Garrulous: full of petty conversation
- Gourmand: a person who believes only in eating and drinking to excess
- Grandiloquent: arrogant in style
- Gratitude: unnecessary and unwarranted, gratefulness
- Hapless: unfortunate and deserving pity
- Hegemony: the authority or leadership
- Heterogeneous: consisting of basics that are not of the same kind
- Iconoclast: someone who attacks precious ideas or institutions
- Idiosyncratic: unusual to the individual
- Impecunious: not having enough money to pay for necessities
- Inure: cause to accept or become hardened to
- Invective: abusive language used to express blame
- Intransigent: resistant to pleas, encouragement, requests, or reason
- Inveterate: Habitual
- Irreverence: a mental attitude showing lack of due respect, discourtesy
- Knell: the sound of a bell rung slowly to announce a death
- Laconic: brief and make it to the point
- Largesse: taking liberality in bestowing gifts
- Legerdemain: an misleading feat
- Libertarian: doing an advocacy for freedom of thought and speech
- Licentious: missing moral discipline
- Maverick: someone who reveals independence in thought and action
- Mawkish: lavishly or insincerely emotional
- Maxim: a saying that is widely accepted on its own merits
- Mendacious: given to lying
- Noisome: offensively foul
- Noxious: injurious to physical or mental health
- Obdurate: stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing
- Obfuscate: make unclear or uncertain
- Obstreperous: noisily and willfully defiant
- Officious: disturbing or offensive manner
- Onerous: burdensome or difficult to endure
- Ostensible: appearing as such but not necessarily so
- Ostracism: the act of excluding someone from society by general consent
- Palliate: lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of
- Panacea: imaginary remedy for all ills or diseases
- Paradigm: a standard or typical example
- Pertinacious: stubbornly unyielding
- Plaudit: eager recognition and approval
- Plenitude: a full supply
- Quaint: attractively old-fashioned, charming, pretty
- Quixotic: not sensible about practical matters, unrealistic
- Quandary: state of uncertainty in a choice between unfavorable options
- Recalcitrant: stubbornly resistant to authority or control
- Redoubtable: inspiring fear
- Relegate: assign to a lower position
- Rife: excessively abundant
- Sanctimonious: excessively or hypocritically pious
- Sanguine: confidently optimistic and cheerful
- Toady: a person who tries to please someone to gain an advantage
- Torpid: in a condition of biological rest or suspended animation
- Travesty: a composition that imitates or misrepresents a style
- Truculent: defiantly aggressive
- Ubiquitous: being present everywhere at once
- Umbrage: a feeling of anger caused by being offended
- Upbraid: express criticism towards
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