abusive
English
/əˈbjuː.sɪv/, /əˈbju.sɪv/
adj
Definitions
- Prone to treat someone badly by coarse, insulting words or other maltreatment; vituperative; reproachful; scurrilous.
- (obsolete) Tending to deceive; fraudulent.
- (archaic) Tending to misuse; practising or containing abuse.
- Being physically or emotionally injurious; characterized by repeated violence or other abuse.
- Wrongly used; perverted; misapplied; unjust; illegal.
- (archaic) Catachrestic.
Etymology
Derived from French abusif derived from Latin abūsīvus suffix from English abuse.
Origin
English
abuse
Gloss
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Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- abusability English
- abusable English
- abusage English
- abuse English
- abusee English
- abuseful English
- abusement English
- abuser English
- abusest English
- abuseth English
- abusively English
- abusiveness English
- antiabuse English
- coabuse English
- disabuse English
- nonabusive English
- nonabusively English
- polyabuse English
- re-abuse English
- reabuse English
- self-abuse English
- unabusive English
- unabusively English
- use English
- abūsīvus Latin
- abusivo Italian
- abusif French
- abusivo Spanish, Castilian
- abusivo Portuguese
- abusen Middle English
- abusiu Catalan, Valencian