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abusious

abusious is the alternative form of abusive.

Meaning of abusive

Adjective

abusive (comparative more abusive, superlative most abusive)

  1. 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.
  2. (obsolete) Tending to deceive; fraudulent.
    • an abusive treatya. 1627 (date written), Francis [Bacon], “Considerations Touching a Warre with Spaine. […]”, in William Rawley, editor, Certaine Miscellany Works of the Right Honourable Francis Lo. Verulam, Viscount...
  3. (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.1589, Thomas Nashe, The Anatomy of Absurdity
  4. Being physically or emotionally injurious; characterized by repeated violence or other abuse.
  5. Wrongly used; perverted; misapplied; unjust; illegal.
    • I am […]necessitated to use the word Parliament improperly, according to the abusive acceptation thereof.1662, Thomas Fuller, Worthies of England
  6. (archaic) Catachrestic.

Questions about abusious

What is abusious the alternative form of?
Abusious is the alternative form of abusive.

Words near abusious in the dictionary

  1. abusing
  2. abusingly
  3. abusio
  4. abusion
  5. abusions
  6. abusious
  7. abusive
  8. abusively
  9. abusiveness
  10. abusivity
  11. abustle

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