About The Word Abusive
Learn about the word Abusive to help solve your crossword puzzle. Discover Abusive definitions and meaning, origins, synonyms, related terms and more at the free Crossword Dictionary.
Abusive
| 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.
|
More Crossword Puzzle Words
A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z
Cross Word Of The Day
- Eradication ‐ the complete destruction of every trace of…
- Squaw root ‐ tall herb of eastern North America and Asia having blue berrylike…
- High-necked ‐ (of a garment) having a high neckline; "a…
- Canaanitic language ‐ a group of Semitic…
- Leonid ilyich brezhnev ‐ Soviet statesman who became president of the Soviet Union…
- Militia ‐ civilians trained as soldiers but not part of the…
- Ripened ‐ of wines, fruit, cheeses; having reached a desired or final condition;…
- Saprobe ‐ an organism that lives in and derives its nourishment from organic…
- Spheroid ‐ a shape that is generated by rotating an ellipse around one of…
- Baby doc ‐ son and successor of Francois Duvalier as President of Haiti;…