Offensive vs Impure - What's the difference?
offensive | impure |
Causing offense; arousing a visceral reaction of disgust, anger, or hatred.
Relating to an offense or attack, as opposed to defensive.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=
, volume=188, issue=26, page=6, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= Having to do with play directed at scoring.
(countable, military) An attack.
(uncountable) The posture of attacking or being able to attack.
Not pure
Defiled by sin or guilt; unholy; unhallowed
Unchaste; lewd; unclean or obscene
(Judaism) Not virgin, having previously had sexual intercourse
* 2012 , Frederick Ramsay, The Eighth Veil: A Jerusalem Mystery
(obsolete) to defile; to pollute
As a noun offensive
is offensive (posture of attacking or being able to attack).As an adjective impure is
not pure.As a verb impure is
(obsolete) to defile; to pollute.offensive
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Ed Pilkington
‘Killer robots’ should be banned in advance, UN told, passage=In his submission to the UN, [Christof] Heyns points to the experience of drones. Unmanned aerial vehicles were intended initially only for surveillance, and their use for offensive purposes was prohibited, yet once strategists realised their perceived advantages as a means of carrying out targeted killings, all objections were swept out of the way.}}
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
* offensivenessNoun
- The Marines today launched a major offensive .
- He took the offensive in the press, accusing his opponent of corruption.
External links
* * ----impure
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The impure gemstone was not good enough to be made into a necklace, so it was thrown out.
- He was thinking impure thoughts.
- “No one would marry her if she was impure''', don't you see?” “'''Impure'''? Surely if a woman is forcibly deprived of her virginity, she can't be thought of as '''impure .”