Hyphenation of offensively

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word offensively? This word can be hyphenated and contains 4 syllables as shown below.

of-fen-sive-ly

Definitions of offensively:

1.	In an unpleasantly offensive manner He smelled offensively unwashed
2.	In an obnoxious manner He said so in one of his more offensively intellectually arrogant sentences
3.	In an aggressive manner `In this crisis
4.	We must act offensively
5.	' the President said The admiral intends to act offensively in the Mediterranean

Synonyms of offensively:

adv	objectionably, obnoxiously

Last hyphenations of this language

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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.