Usually means: Causing hurt through words, actions.
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We found 31 dictionaries that define the word offensive:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. offensive: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. offensive, offensive: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. offensive: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. offensive, the offensive: Collins English Dictionary
  5. offensive: Vocabulary.com
  6. Offensive, offensive: Wordnik
  7. offensive: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. offensive: Wiktionary
  9. offensive: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. offensive: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. offensive: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. offensive: Dictionary.com
  13. offensive (adj.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. offensive: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Offensive (military), Offensive: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Offensive: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. offensive: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. offensive: Rhymezone
  19. Offensive (f), offensive: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. offensive: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. offensive: Free Dictionary
  22. offensive: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. offensive: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. offensive: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  2. offensive: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. offensive: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)

(Note: See offensively as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Causing offense; arousing a visceral reaction of disgust, anger, hatred, sadness, or indignation.
adjective:  Relating to an offense or attack, as opposed to defensive.
adjective:  (sports) Having to do with play directed at scoring.
noun:  (countable, military) An attack.
noun:  (uncountable) The posture of attacking or being able to attack.

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