Offensive vs Wicked - What's the difference?
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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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(countable, military) An attack.
(uncountable) The posture of attacking or being able to attack.
Evil or mischievous by nature.
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People who are wicked.Oxford dictionary [http://www.oxfordadvancedlearnersdictionary.com/dictionary/wicked_2].
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Having a wick.
(British, dialect, chiefly, Yorkshire) Infested with maggots.
Wicked is a synonym of offensive.
As adjectives the difference between offensive and wicked
is that offensive is causing offense; arousing a visceral reaction of disgust, anger, or hatred while wicked is evil or mischievous by nature.As nouns the difference between offensive and wicked
is that offensive is an attack while wicked is people who are wicked..As an adverb wicked is
very, extremely.As a verb wicked is
past tense of wick.offensive
English
Adjective
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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
* * ----wicked
English
Etymology 1
1225-75 (etyl) wikked, wikke, an alteration of wicke, adjectival use of (etyl)Adjective
(en-adj)citation, passage=‘[…] I remember a lady coming to inspect St. Mary's Home where I was brought up and seeing us all in our lovely Elizabethan uniforms we were so proud of, and bursting into tears all over us because “it was wicked to dress us like charity children”. […]’.}}
Usage notes
* Nouns to which "wicked" is often applied: witch, person, man, woman, angel, deed, act, pleasure, delight, game, way, night, word.Synonyms
* (evil or mischievous) evil, immoral, malevolent, malicious, nefarious, twisted, villainous, See also * awesome, bad, cool, dope, excellent, far out, groovy, hot, rad, See alsoDerived terms
* wickedly * wickedness * wicked tongueAdverb
(-)- The band we went to see the other night was wicked loud!
Synonyms
* hella, helluv (primarily Northern California slang )Noun
Etymology 2
See (wick)Verb
(head)Adjective
(-)- a two-wicked lamp