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General (28 matching dictionaries)

1. defensive: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info]
2. defensive: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info]
3. defensive: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info]
4. defensive: Dictionary.com [home, info]
5. defensive: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]
6. defensive: Cambridge Dictionary of American English [home, info]
7. Defensive: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia [home, info]
8. Defensive: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
9. defensive: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info]
10. defensive: Rhymezone [home, info]
11. defensive: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
12. defensive: Webster's 1828 Dictionary [home, info]
13. defensive: Free Dictionary [home, info]
14. defensive: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info]
15. defensive: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info]
16. defensive: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info]
17. defensive: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]
18. defensive: Merriam-Webster.com [home, info]
19. defensive: Oxford Dictionaries [home, info]
20. defensive: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
21. defensive: Collins English Dictionary [home, info]
22. defensive: Vocabulary.com [home, info]
23. defensive, defensive: Macmillan Dictionary [home, info]
24. Defensive, defensive: Wordnik [home, info]
25. defensive: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary [home, info]
26. defensive: Wiktionary [home, info]

Business (3 matching dictionaries)

27. defensive: Glossary of Legal Terms [home, info]
28. Defensive: Moneyterms [home, info]
29. defensive: Legal dictionary [home, info]

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)

30. defensive: Medical dictionary [home, info]

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)

31. DEFENSIVE: Acronym Finder [home, info]
32. defensive: Idioms [home, info]

(Note: See defensives for more definitions.)

Quick definitions from Macmillan ( ) Provided by Quick definitions from WordNet (defensive) ▸ noun:  an attitude of defensiveness (especially in the phrase `on the defensive') ▸ adjective:  intended or appropriate for defending against or deterring aggression or attack ("Defensive weapons") ▸ adjective:  attempting to justify or defend in speech or writing ▸ adjective:  serving as or appropriate for defending or protecting ("Defensive fortifications") ▸ Also see defensives ▸ Words similar to defensive ▸ Usage examples for defensive ▸ Popular adjectives describing defensive ▸ Popular nouns described by defensive ▸ Words that often appear near defensive ▸ Rhymes of defensive ▸ Invented words related to defensive