defensive Synonyms

safeguarding guarding sheltering guarded shielding defensive attitude vigilant justificatory watchful wary justificative preventive cautious protective careful strong resist resistant vindicatory retaliatory tutelar rigid touchy self-defence thin-skinned territorial precautionary supersensitive suspicious withstanding oversensitive paranoid repugnatorial countering easily hurt in opposition quick to take offense onside on guard antisubmarine antiaircraft hypersensitive fullback uptight antitank defensiveness diversionary self-protective resisting advocacy