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Offensive vs Cumulative - What's the difference?

offensive | cumulative |

As a noun offensive

is offensive (posture of attacking or being able to attack).

As an adjective cumulative is

incorporating all data up to the present.

offensive

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Causing offense; arousing a visceral reaction of disgust, anger, or hatred.
  • Relating to an offense or attack, as opposed to defensive.
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  • Having to do with play directed at scoring.

    • Usage notes

    * Nouns to which "offensive" is often applied: content, material, language, word, comment, remark, statement, speech, joke, humor, image, picture, art, behavior, conduct, act, action. * When the second syllable is emphasized, "offensive" is defined as "insulting". When the first syllable is emphasized, it refers to the attacker of a conflict or the team in a sport who possesses the ball.

    Synonyms

    * aggressive * invidious (Intending to cause envious offense)

    Antonyms

    * inoffensive (not causing offense or disgust ) * defensive (relating or causing defence )

    Derived terms

    * offensiveness

    Related terms

    * offend

    Noun

  • (countable, military) An attack.
    • The Marines today launched a major offensive .
  • (uncountable) The posture of attacking or being able to attack.
    • He took the offensive in the press, accusing his opponent of corruption.

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    cumulative

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Incorporating all data up to the present
  • That is formed by accumulation of successive additions
  • * Francis Bacon
    • As for knowledge which man receiveth by teaching, it is cumulative , not original.
  • * Trench
    • The argument is in very truth not logical and single, but moral and cumulative .
  • That tends to accumulate
  • (finance) Having priority rights to receive a dividend that accrue until paid

    • Derived terms

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    Related terms

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