abusive
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- 12
- Words With Friends
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- Letters
- 7
/əˈbjuː.sɪv/
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/əˈbjuː.sɪv/ · /əˈbju.sɪv/(US) · /əˈbju.zɪv/(US)
Definition of abusive
6 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
adj
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Prone to treat someone badly by coarse, insulting words or other maltreatment; vituperative; reproachful; scurrilous.
“All they could ever do was to shout abusive inanities at me.”
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adj
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Prone to treat someone badly by coarse, insulting words or other maltreatment; vituperative; reproachful; scurrilous.
“All they could ever do was to shout abusive inanities at me.”
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(obsolete)Tending to deceive; fraudulent.
“an abusive treaty”
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(archaic)Tending to misuse; practising or containing abuse.
“[…] to begin in this vacation the foundation of a trifling subject which might shroud in his leaves the abusive enormities of these our times.”
“the abusive prerogatives of his see”
- Being physically or emotionally injurious; characterized by repeated violence or other abuse.
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Wrongly used; perverted; misapplied; unjust; illegal.
“I am […]necessitated to use the word Parliament improperly, according to the abusive acceptation thereof.”
- (archaic)Catachrestic.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
First attested in the 1530s. From French abusif, from Latin abūsīvus, from abusus + -ivus (“-ive”). Equivalent to abuse + -ive.
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