Was heißt »of­fen­siv« auf Englisch?

Das Adjektiv »of­fen­siv« lässt sich wie folgt von Deutsch auf Englisch übersetzen:

  • offensive

Synonyme

ag­gres­siv:
abrasive
aggressive
thugish
an­griffs­lus­tig:
aggressive
belligerent
kämp­fe­risch:
aggressive
combative
pugnacious
streit­bar:
disputatious

Antonyme

de­fen­siv:
defensive

Englische Beispielsätze

  • You may think your comment was innocuous, but I found it very offensive.

  • As an American, I find that offensive.

  • Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

  • Tom is offensive.

  • A purse of three thousand drachmas, however, was cast ashore, and now lies covered with seaweed near a dead dolphin, the stench of which is so offensive, that all who pass that way hasten by it as fast as they can.

  • The Viet Cong launched the Tet offensive on January 30, 1968.

  • The word "nigger" is an offensive term.

  • The police conducted an offensive against some drug dealers.

  • The plans for the offensive were secret.

  • Several soldiers were injured in the offensive.

  • The smell was offensive.

  • Your attitude towards women is offensive.

  • The speaker's comments were highly offensive.

  • I find just the memory of his overly polite patronizing manner really offensive.

  • English usage is not uniform throughout the world, and some words are considered more offensive in some areas of the English-speaking world than elsewhere.

  • He had drunk too much and became offensive.

Offensiv übersetzt in weiteren Sprachen:

Quellen:
  1. [Übersetzungen] Wiktionary-Autoren: offensiv. In: Wiktionary – Das freie Wörterbuch, 2023, [online] de.wiktionary.org, CC BY-SA 3.0
  2. [Synonyme] OpenThesaurus-User: offensiv. In: OpenThesaurus – Das freie Wörterbuch für Synonyme, 2023, [online] openthesaurus.de, CC BY-SA 4.0
  3. [Beispielübersetzungen] User-generated content: Satz Nr. 3595678, 3126734, 2347536, 2236796, 6213207, 6214614, 752989, 681615, 681614, 681613, 681612, 681611, 681610, 72024, 10219435 & 11213436. In: tatoeba.org, CC BY 2.0 FR