aggressive vs offensive

aggressive

adj
  • Characterized by aggression; unjustly attacking; prone to behave in a way that involves attacking or arguing. 

  • Female but having a male or masculine gender presentation: butch. 

  • Involving high risk for potentially high reward. 

  • That spreads quickly or extensively; virulent; malignant. 

  • Of heuristics, source code optimization techniques, etc.: exploiting every opportunity to be applied. 

noun
  • One who is aggressive. 

  • A (Black) woman who presents as masculine; a butch. 

offensive

adj
  • Relating to an offense or attack, as opposed to defensive. 

  • Causing offense; arousing a visceral reaction of disgust, anger, hatred, or indignation. 

  • Having to do with play directed at scoring. 

noun
  • An attack. 

  • The posture of attacking or being able to attack. 

How often have the words aggressive and offensive occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )