About The Word Abusive
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Abusive
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What's The Definition Of Abusive?
[adj] characterized by physical or psychological maltreatment; "abusive punishment"; "argued...that foster homes are abusive"
[adj] expressing offensive reproach Synonyms | Synonyms for Abusive: harmful | insulting | offensive | opprobrious | scornful | scurrilous Related Terms | Find terms related to Abusive: atrocious | back-biting | backhand | backhanded | belittling | bitchy | blackening | blameful | blasphemous | bludgeoning | blustering | browbeating | brutal | bulldozing | bullying | calumniatory | calumnious | catty | censorious | comminatory | condemnatory | contemptuous | contumelious | corrupt | crooked | cruel | cursing | damnatory | defamatory | degrading | denunciatory | deprecative | deprecatory | depreciative | depreciatory | derisive | derisory | derogative | derogatory | destructive | detractory | dirty | dishonest | disparaging | dysphemistic | epithetic | excommunicative | excommunicatory | execrating | execrative | execratory | fear-inspiring | filthy | foreboding | foul | fulminatory | harmful | hectoring | humiliating | hurtful | imminent | imprecatory | improper | incorrect | injurious | insolent | insulting | intimidating | invective | inveighing | judgmental | left-handed | libelous | lowering | maledictory | maligning | menacing | minacious | minatory | minimizing | misapplied | objurgatory | obscene | odious | offending | offensive | ominous | opprobrious | outrageous | pejorative | perverted | priggish | profane | Rabelaisian | raw | reproachful | reprobative | reviling | ribald | ridiculing | risque | rude | scandalous | scatologic | scoffing | scurrile | scurrilous | slanderous | slighting | smutty | terroristic | terrorizing | threatening | threatful | truculent | unspeakable | venal | vile | vilifying | vituperative | vulgar | wrong See Also | Abusive In Webster's Dictionary \A*bu"sive\, a. [Cf. F. abusif, fr. L. abusivus.]
1. Wrongly used; perverted; misapplied.
I am . . . necessitated to use the word Parliament
improperly, according to the abusive acceptation
thereof. --Fuller.
2. Given to misusing; also, full of abuses. [Archaic] ``The
abusive prerogatives of his see.'' --Hallam.
3. Practicing abuse; prone to ill treat by coarse, insulting
words or by other ill usage; as, an abusive author; an
abusive fellow.
4. Containing abuse, or serving as the instrument of abuse;
vituperative; reproachful; scurrilous. ``An abusive
lampoon.'' --Johnson.
5. Tending to deceive; fraudulent; cheating. [Obs.] ``An
abusive treaty.'' --Bacon.
Syn: Reproachful; scurrilous; opprobrious; insolent;
insulting; injurious; offensive; reviling.
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