highly offensive
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6.6
- adjective
- Offensive
- I found your remarks highly offensive.
- find it highly offensive
- highly offensive to many people
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Watch on YouTubeTristar says these claims are entirely false as well as highly offensive, damaging and unacceptable.
- Tristar says these claims are entirely false as well as highly offensive, damaging and unacceptable.
- That being said, I've been seeing some extra highly offensive speech in, in, in, in, in the recent past.
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Maher's overpopulation schtick is not only highly offensive; it is completely inaccurate.
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But your very conscious grouping of trans women with men and trans men is highly offensive to me.
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I could imagine that would be highly offensive to some.
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This is highly offensive, in my opinion.
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Now, we find the concept of digging up consecrated ground to be highly offensive.
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I find this use of a targeted gender slur highly offensive.
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On September 13th, two days after the attack, Hillary Clinton said the video was highly offensive and reprehensible.
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Tristar says these claims are entirely false as well as highly offensive, damaging and unacceptable.
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Instead of setting a civil tone and engaging in a responsible debate, Ms. Wys has stuck by comments that are inflammatory, highly offensive, and continue to demonstrate the deep-seated racism that abounds in Puerto Rican political and social discourse.
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I found your remarks highly offensive when you insulted my friend.
Synonyms
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1.3
Causing a strong feeling of dislike or making you feel sick
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1.8
Words or actions that hurt people
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4.0
Likely to make people angry or upset
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4.2
Shocking and very wrong in a way that upsets people
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3.0
Being rude or saying things that hurt someone
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5.1
Very unpleasant in a way that makes people angry or upset
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4.7
Containing rude or offensive language
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5.1
Being rude and offensive, often about sex
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6.5
Being rude and indecent in words or behaviour
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4.9
Using insulting words or hurtful behavior toward another person
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6.9
Expressing an insulting, disrespectful view of someone or something
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7.8
Very unpleasant and morally wrong to most people
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4.6
Something that makes people feel dislike or disgust
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6.7
Causing people to feel offended or want to protest
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5.7
Very shocking and upsetting to many people because it breaks moral rules
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6.5
Words and actions that offend or exclude some people
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Causing strong dislike or disgust because people see it as morally wrong
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Saying rude and untrue things to hurt someone's reputation
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Being very uncaring about other people's feelings
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Very insulting and likely to deeply offend people
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6.7
Causing a strong feeling of dislike or making people feel sick
Antonyms
How Offensive
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- Offensive
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- Offensive
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4.0
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1.0
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3.2
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'extremely insulting' is directly and compositionally derived from the intensifier 'highly' (extremely) modifying the adjective 'offensive' (insulting). This standard intensifier + adjective pattern is cross-linguistically common and easily predictable for a B1 learner who knows both constituents.
Etymology
Highly offensive paints a simple picture: imagine words that feel like an attack. The word offensive is like being hit by rude words and highly makes that hit much stronger, so the phrase means 'extremely insulting' or 'very hurtful'.