offended

«offended» in Mova's school dictionary: Feeling hurt, upset or insulted by what someone said or did — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

verb, past of offend; adjective (feel offended)

meaning for a pupil

1) Feeling hurt, upset or insulted by what someone said or did. tree →

2) Past form of offend: made someone upset. tree →

3) (formal) Broke a law. tree →

sense in the lessons

In stories it tells the reader how a character feels after an insult; in PSHE it helps name a feeling. Phrases: be offended by, take offence, look offended, easily offended.

examples

• Mia was offended when nobody invited her. tree →
• He looked offended when I laughed at his drawing. tree →
• I hope you aren't offended, but I prefer the blue one. tree →
• The joke offended my grandad. tree →
• She is easily offended, so be kind. tree →
• The man had offended before and went to prison. tree →
• ‘There! there!’ said the Fairy, ‘I am not offended. tree →

note

As an adjective it describes the person who feels hurt: «I am offended.» Do not mix with «offensive», which describes the thing that hurts: «an offensive joke». Past of offend (regular -ed).

In the corpora

• Toad is offended — Mr.
• "ne obrazhaisya" means "don't be offended", said after a joke that hurt.
• A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city; and their contentions are like the bars of a castle.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «offended» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.