'abusive' definitions:
Definition of 'abusive'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Expressing offensive reproach [syn: abusive, opprobrious, scurrilous]
adjective
Characterized by physical or psychological maltreatment; "abusive punishment"; "argued...that foster homes are abusive"
Synonyms of 'abusive'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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