defensive
/dɪˈfɛn.sɪv/ صفة C1باللغة العربية: دفاعي
- Intended for defence; protective. · a defensive perimeter
- Intended to deter attack. · a defensive missile system
- Performed so as to minimise risk. · defensive driving
- Displaying an inordinate sensitivity to criticism or intrusion; oversensitive; thin-skinned.
- Of a bowling or fielding tactic designed to prevent the other side from scoring runs; of a batting tactic designed to prevent being out.
- Pertaining to defense, as opposed to attack. · The victim held up his hand to repel the attacker and received a defensive knife wound.
- In a state or posture of defense.
من المكتبة
“Threats!” cried the jailer, retreating and putting himself on the defensive; “you are certainly going mad.
Science becomes, in their hands, not only a defensive weapon, but still more frequently an offensive one; the one serves against all their physical sufferings, the other against all their enemies.
She did not draw traditional offensive plays or defensive strategies on the smooth surface.
Researchers discovered that when individuals feel stripped of their privacy, they tend to withdraw socially as a defensive coping mechanism.
نتائج أخرى
تعلّم defensive في نصوص حقيقية
مع حساب مجاني، مرّر المؤشر فوق أي كلمة في المكتبة لترى معناها، واستمع إليها مقروءة بصوت عالٍ، واحفظ الكلمات لمراجعتها في مواعيد تناسب ذاكرتك، واعرف مقدار ما تعرفه من كل كتاب.