abusive

形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /əˈbjuː.sɪv/    美 /əˈbju.sɪv/|/əˈbju.zɪv/

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  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. Tending to deceive; fraudulent. obsolete
    — an abusive treaty
  3. Tending to misuse; practising or containing abuse. archaic
    — […] to begin in this vacation the foundation of a trifling subject which might shroud in his leaves the abusive enormities of these our times.
  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.
  6. Catachrestic. archaic

词形变化

more abusive comparative most abusive superlative

词汇关系

反义词
abuseless nonabusive unabusive
衍生词
abusively abusiveness abusivity

词源

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