defensively
adverb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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- core relation
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- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 1 adverb
in an apologetic and defensive manner
`I felt it better you should know,' said Sir Cedric defensively
Related & opposite
- justificative derived from
Sense 2 adverb
in a defensive manner
the general conviction that our side is in the right and acting defensively over what Russians call the German question and Americans the Berlin crisis
Related & opposite
- offensively antonym
- defensive derived from
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derived from | Related & opposite | justificative |
| 2 | antonym | Related & opposite | offensively |
| 2 | derived from | Related & opposite | defensive |