| 单词 | offensive |
| 释义 | of·fen·sive I. 1. < offensive weapons > < offensive maneuver > < offensive strength > — opposed to defensive 2. a. obsolete b. < offensive odor of garbage > 3. < loud, offensive behavior > < offensive advertising > < it's offensive to a gentleman's feelings when his word isn't believed — Dorothy Sayers > 4. obsolete Synonyms: < her head thrown back, her face discolored, her eyes bulging, her mouth wet and yawning: a sight horribly offensive — Arnold Bennett > < bad manners and a blatancy that, for some reason, seemed much more offensive than any mere peasant crudeness of their parents — Edmund Wilson > < his jeering voice had an offensive, deliberately insulting tone — O.E.Rölvaag > loathsome applies to what is foul or corrupt to the point of being quite disgusting or abhorrent < upon the bed, before that whole company, there lay a nearly liquid mass of loathsome — of detestable putrescence — E.A.Poe > < picturing on many pages of his immortal comedy of hell, purgatory, and paradise the most horrible monsters and tortures, and the most loathsome and noisome abominations — C.W.Eliot > repulsive describes whatever produces strong physical disgust or aversion < there was something repulsive about his touch. I shrank from his hand; my flesh revolted — Jack London > < rats, mice, dogs, cats, and such repulsive substitutes for food — J.L.Motley > repugnant describes what is highly offensive as in conflict with one's nature, principles, or tastes < intensely repugnant to human nature, being a condition of chronic terror that at last became unbearable — G.B.Shaw > < if violence was incompatible with the character of a Virginia gentleman, how much more repugnant must it appear to the ideal of pure womanhood — Ellen Glasgow > revolting applies to what is offensive or repulsive and calls forth a determination to resist, rebel, or escape, especially on the part of a person of delicate sensibilities < his whole body shivered and started into awe-inspiring movement, monstrous and inhuman, revolting … yet pitiful — Liam O'Flaherty > < the maneuvers of selfishness and duplicity must ever be revolting — Jane Austen > II. 1. < took the offensive > — opposed to defensive 2. < offensive aimed at the enemy's capital > : an aggressive action or movement < an economic offensive can often prevent the necessity for a … military defense — W.H.Draper > |
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