Abusive: Definition and part of speech

Abusive

  1. a. Tending to deceive; fraudulent; cheating.
  2. a. Wrongly used; perverted; misapplied.
  3. a. Given to misusing; also, full of abuses.
  4. a. Practicing abuse; prone to ill treat by coarse, insulting words or by other ill usage; as, an abusive author; an abusive fellow.
  5. a. Containing abuse, or serving as the instrument of abuse; vituperative; reproachful; scurrilous.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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