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Abusive Definition And Meaning
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.

Abusive Definition And Meaning

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

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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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