Hyphenation of offensive

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word offensive? This word can be hyphenated and contains 3 syllables as shown below.

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Definitions of offensive:

1.	The action of attacking an enemy
2.	Violating or tending to violate or offend against Violative of the principles of liberty Considered such depravity offensive against all laws of humanity
3.	For the purpose of attack rather than defense Offensive weapons
4.	Causing anger or annoyance Offensive remarks
5.	Morally offensive An unsavory reputation An unsavory scandal
6.	Unpleasant or disgusting especially to the senses Offensive odors
7.	Substitute a harsher or distasteful term for a mild one `nigger' is a dysphemistic term for `African-American'
8.	Causing or able to cause nausea A nauseating smell Nauseous offal A sickening stench

Synonyms of offensive:

adj	violative, offending
adj	offensive, antipersonnel, assaultive, attacking, hit-and-run, tip-and-run, incursive, invading, invasive, marauding, predatory, raiding, on the offensive, aggressive, hostile
adj	offensive, abusive, insulting, opprobrious, scornful, scurrilous, disrespectful, harmful
adj	unsavory, unsavoury, odoriferous
adj	offensive, abhorrent, detestable, obscene, repugnant, repulsive, charnel, ghastly, sepulchral, creepy, disgusting, disgustful, distasteful, foul, loathly, loathsome, repellent, repellant, repelling, revolting, skanky, wicked, yucky, ghoulish, morbid, hideous, horrid, horrific, outrageous, objectionable, obnoxious, unpleasant, rank, scrimy, verminous, evil, wicked, hateful, unpalatable, unpleasant
adj	dysphemistic
adj	nauseating, nauseous, noisome, loathsome, sickening, vile, unwholesome
noun	offense, offence, operation, military operation

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Hyphenator

The hyphen is a punctuation mark used to join words and to separate syllables of a single word. The use of hyphens is called hyphenation. The hyphen should not be confused with dashes, which are longer and have different uses, or with the minus sign, which is also longer in some contexts. Some words can be hyphenated in different places and you can use this website to find out where. Also reffered to as syllable counter and divider.