Synonyms and Antonyms of defensive (dĭ-fĕnsĭv)

guarding protecting touchy protective shielding prickly safeguarding warding-off watchful wary guarded preventive averting forestalling foiling balking arresting opposing withstanding armored in opposition self-justifying justificative justificatory self-preservative defending on-the-defensive in self-defense self-protective defensive attitude self-defensive checking frustrating thwarting resistive

combative aggressive offensive undefensive unprotective unwatchful unwary

attacking armed irritable unfriendly the defensive defensively tactical rearguard midfield scrummage rear-guard

defensive ₁₆

defense ₁₁ defines ₁₁ deveins ₁₁ devisee ₁₁ endives ₁₁ infeeds ₁₁ vendees ₁₁

defies ₁₀ define ₁₀ devein ₁₀ devise ₁₀ endive ₁₀ envied ₁₀ evened ₁₀ fiends ₁₀ infeed ₁₀ sieved ₁₀ veined ₁₀ vendee ₁₀ viseed ₁₀ envies ₉ nieves ₉ denies ₇ dienes ₇ seined ₇

fives ₁₁ defis ₉ devis ₉ dives ₉ feeds ₉ fends ₉ fiend ₉ finds ₉ fined ₉ vends ₉ vined ₉ vised ₉ evens ₈ fines ₈ neifs ₈ neves ₈ nieve ₈ seven ₈ sieve ₈ veins ₈ vines ₈ denes ₆ dense ₆ diene ₆ dines ₆ needs ₆ nides ₆ snide ₆ seine ₅

five ₁₀ defi ₈ devi ₈ devs ₈ difs ₈ dive ₈ feds ₈ feed ₈ fend ₈ fids ₈ find ₈ vend ₈ vide ₈ vids ₈ vied ₈ even ₇ eves ₇ fees ₇ fens ₇ fine ₇ fins ₇ neif ₇ neve ₇ nevi ₇ seif ₇ vees ₇ vein ₇ vies ₇ vine ₇ vins ₇ vise ₇ dees ₅ dene ₅ deni ₅ dens ₅ desi ₅ dies ₅ dine ₅ dins ₅ eide ₅ ends ₅ ides ₅ need ₅ nide ₅ seed ₅ send ₅ side ₅ sned ₅ esne ₄ seen ₄

def ₇ dev ₇ dif ₇ fed ₇ fid ₇ vid ₇ efs ₆ eve ₆ fee ₆ fen ₆ fes ₆ fie ₆ fin ₆ ifs ₆ sev ₆ vee ₆ vie ₆ vin ₆ vis ₆ dee ₄ den ₄ die ₄ din ₄ dis ₄ eds ₄ end ₄ ids ₄ ens ₃ ins ₃ nee ₃ see ₃ sei ₃ sen ₃ sin ₃

ef ₅ fe ₅ if ₅ de ₃ ed ₃ id ₃ en ₂ es ₂ in ₂ is ₂ ne ₂ si ₂