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Word Meanings - OFFENSEFUL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Causing offense; displeasing; wrong; as, an offenseful act.

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  • 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.

 

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