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self-defensive

self-defensive adjective: exhibiting or relating to self-defense.

Adjective

self-defensive (comparative more self-defensive, superlative most self-defensive)

  1. Exhibiting or relating to self-defense.
    • the laws on self-defensive killing

Forms of self-defensive

comparativemore self-defensive
superlativemost self-defensive

Origin of self-defensive

From self-defense + -ive.

Questions about self-defensive

What does self-defensive mean?
Self-defensive means exhibiting or relating to self-defense.
What part of speech is self-defensive?
Self-defensive is an adjective.

Words near self-defensive in the dictionary

  1. self-defences
  2. self-defense
  3. self-defense wound
  4. self-defense wounds
  5. self-defenses
  6. self-defensive
  7. self-deficient
  8. self-defilement
  9. self-defined
  10. self-delete
  11. self-deleted

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