OFFENDED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does offended mean? 

• OFFENDED (adjective)
  The adjective OFFENDED has 1 sense:

1. emotionally hurt or upset or annoyed

  Familiarity information: OFFENDED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OFFENDED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Emotionally hurt or upset or annoyed

Synonyms:

injured; offended; pained

Context example:

injured feelings

Similar:

displeased (not pleased; experiencing or manifesting displeasure)

 Context examples 

I am sure, said she, I am very sorry if I have offended him.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

To tell you the truth (at which you will not be offended), I came Out to walk alone, because I have had so much company.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

You won’t be offended, Watson?

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Please don't be offended. I didn't mean to preach or tell tales or be silly.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

He had gone away deeply offended—he came back engaged to another—and to another as superior, of course, to the first, as under such circumstances what is gained always is to what is lost.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

I could only look upwards; the sun began to grow hot, and the light offended my eyes.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

“Yes, indeed,” cried Mrs. Bennet, offended by his manner of mentioning a country neighbourhood.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

At length she replied: Do not be offended, Elinor, if my praise of him is not in every thing equal to your sense of his merits.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

“Can it not!” she cried, pretending to be offended.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Sir Thomas heard and was not offended.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)