Usually means: Protecting oneself from potential harm.
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We found 21 dictionaries that define the word defensively:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. defensively: Merriam-Webster
  2. defensively: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. defensively: Collins English Dictionary
  4. defensively: Vocabulary.com
  5. Defensively, defensively: Wordnik
  6. defensively: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. defensively: Wiktionary
  8. Defensively, defensively: Dictionary.com
  9. defensively: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Defensively: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. defensively: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. defensively: Rhymezone
  13. Defensively: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. defensively: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. defensively: FreeDictionary.org
  16. defensively: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. defensively: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. defensively: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. defensively: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (defensively)

▸ adverb:  In a defensive manner.

Similar:
undefensively, defencively, indefensively, counteroffensively, protensively, offensively, protectively, defensibly, nondefensively, protectingly, more...

Types:
protectively, guardedly, cautiously, more...

Phrases:
speak defensively, said defensively, say defensively, sprayed in the face defensively, defensively agree, more...

Colors:
    olive,     khaki,     gray,     black,     dark green, more...



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Similar:
undefensively, defencively, indefensively, counteroffensively, protensively, offensively, protectively, defensibly, nondefensively, protectingly, more...

Types:
protectively, guardedly, cautiously, more...

Phrases:
speak defensively, said defensively, say defensively, sprayed in the face defensively, defensively agree, raise hands defensively, more...

Colors:
    olive,     khaki,     gray,     black,     dark green, more...



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