Word Meanings - OFFENSEFUL - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Causing offense; displeasing; wrong; as, an offenseful act.
Related words: (words related to OFFENSEFUL)
- CAUSEFUL
Having a cause. - CAUSATIVE
1. Effective, as a cause or agent; causing. Causative in nature of a number of effects. Bacon. 2. Expressing a cause or reason; causal; as, the ablative is a causative case. - CAUSEWAYED; CAUSEYED
Having a raised way ; paved. Sir W. Scott. C. Bronté. - OFFENSELESS
Unoffending; inoffensive. - WRONGOUS
Not right; illegal; as, wrongous imprisonment. Craig. (more info) 1. Constituting, or of the nature of, a wrong; unjust; wrongful. - CAUSATOR
One who causes. Sir T. Browne. - WRONG
imp. of Wring. Wrung. Chaucer. - CAUSTICILY
1. The quality of being caustic; corrosiveness; as, the causticity of potash. 2. Severity of language; sarcasm; as, the causticity of a reply or remark. - CAUSAL
A causal word or form of speech. Anglo-Saxon drencan to drench, causal of Anglo-Saxon drincan to drink. Skeat. - WRONGLESS
Not wrong; void or free from wrong. -- Wrong"less*ly, adv. Sir P. Sidney. - DISPLEASANCE
Displeasure; discontent; annoyance. Chaucer. - CAUSATIVELY
In a causative manner. - CAUSTICALLY
In a caustic manner. - CAUSATIONIST
One who believes in the law of universal causation. - OFFENSEFUL
Causing offense; displeasing; wrong; as, an offenseful act. - WRONGDOING
Evil or wicked behavior or action. - WRONGFUL
Full of wrong; injurious; unjust; unfair; as, a wrongful taking of property; wrongful dealing. -- Wrong"ful*ly, adv. -- Wrong"ful*ness, n. - WRONGHEAD
A person of a perverse understanding or obstinate character. - CAUSIDICAL
Pertaining to an advocate, or to the maintenance and defense of suits. - CAUSERIE
Informal talk or discussion, as about literary matters; light conversation; chat. - ANTICAUSODIC
See ANTICAUSOTIC - ENCAUSTIC
Prepared by means of heat; burned in. Encaustic painting (Fine Arts), painting by means of wax with which the colors are combined, and which is afterwards fused with hot irons, thus fixing the colors. -- Encaustic tile , an earthenware tile which - UNCAUSED
Having no antecedent cause; uncreated; self-existent; eternal. A. Baxter. - EREMACAUSIS
A gradual oxidation from exposure to air and moisture, as in the decay of old trees or of dead animals. - CATACAUSTIC
Relating to, or having the properties of, a caustic curve formed by reflection. See Caustic, a. Nichol.