# abusive
## English
### Etymology

First attested in the 1530s. From French abusif, from Latin abūsīvus, from abusus + -ivus (“-ive”). Equivalent to abuse +‎ -ive.

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /əˈbjuː.sɪv/
* (US) IPA: /əˈbju.sɪv/, /əˈbju.zɪv/
* Audio (UK):(file)

### Adjective

abusive (comparative more abusive, superlative most abusive)
* Prone to treat someone badly by coarse, insulting words or other maltreatment; vituperative; reproachful; scurrilous. [First attested in the early 17th century.]
    All they could ever do was to shout abusive inanities at me and my colleagues.
* (obsolete) Tending to deceive; fraudulent. [Attested only from the early to mid 17th century.]
** a. 1627 (date written), Francis [Bacon], “Considerations Touching a VVarre vvith Spaine. […]”, in William Rawley, editor, Certaine Miscellany VVorks of the Right Honourable Francis Lo. Verulam, Viscount S. Alban. […], London: […] I. Hauiland for Humphrey Robinson, […], published 1629, →OCLC:an abusive treaty
* (archaic) Tending to misuse; practising or containing abuse. [First attested in the late 16th century.]
** 1589, Thomas Nashe, The Anatomy of Absurdity:[…] to begin in this vacation the foundation of a trifling subject which might shroud in his leaves the abusive enormities of these our times.
** 1837, Henry Hallam, Introduction to the Literature of Europe:the abusive prerogatives of his see
* Being physically or emotionally injurious; characterized by repeated violence or other abuse.
* Wrongly used; perverted; misapplied; unjust; illegal. [First attested in the mid 16th century.]
** 1662, Thomas Fuller, Worthies of England:I am […] necessitated to use the word Parliament improperly, according to the abusive acceptation thereof.
* (archaic) Catachrestic. [First attested in the mid 16th century.]

#### Synonyms

* (prone to treating badly): reproachful, scurrilous, opprobrious, insolent, insulting, injurious, offensive, reviling, berating, vituperative

#### Antonyms

* abuseless, nonabusive, unabusive

#### Derived terms

* abusively
* abusiveness

#### Translations

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### References

* ↑ Laurence Urdang (editor), The Random House College Dictionary (Random House, 1984 [1975], →ISBN), page 6
* ↑ Philip Babcock Gove (editor), Webster's Third International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged (G. & C. Merriam Co., 1976 [1909], →ISBN), page 8
* 1 2 3 4 5 Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “abusive”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 10.

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /a.by.ziv/
* Audio (Canada):(file)
* Homophone: abusives

### Adjective

abusive
* feminine singular of abusif

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /a.buˈzi.ve/
* Rhymes: -ive
* Hyphenation: a‧bu‧sì‧ve

### Adjective

abusive
* feminine plural of abusivo

### Anagrams

* Vesubia

## Latin
### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /a.buːˈsiː.u̯e/, [äbuːˈs̠iːu̯ɛ]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /a.buˈsi.ve/, [äbuˈs̬iːve]

### Adjective

abūsīve
* vocative masculine singular of abūsīvus

### References

* “abusive”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press