What is another word for abusive?
563 synonyms foundPronunciation:
[ ɐbjˈuːsɪv], [ ɐbjˈuːsɪv], [ ɐ_b_j_ˈuː_s_ɪ_v]Table of Contents
Similar words for abusive:- all (adjective)
- contemptuous (adjective)
- contumelious (adjective)
- exhibiting unkind behavior or words (adjective)
- foul (adjective)
- horrid (adjective)
- injurious (adjective)
- insolent (adjective)
- nasty (adjective)
- offensive (adjective)
- profane (adjective)
- rude (adjective)
- satirical/satiric (adjective)
- scornful (adjective)
- scurrilous (adjective)
- truculent (adjective)
- violent (adjective)
- abusive (noun)
- other synonyms
- other relevant words
Synonyms for Abusive:
adj.
•all (adjective) •contemptuous (adjective)- derisive,
- deprecative,
- mocking,
- Ridiculing,
- disparaging,
- sarcastic,
- scoffing,
- disdainful,
- sardonic,
- contemptuous,
- jeering,
- antipathetic,
- flippant.
- scolding,
- sharp-tongued,
- Castigating,
- Maligning,
- Traducing,
- Calumniating,
- upbraiding,
- Vilifying,
- libelous,
- scathing,
- Obloquious.
- foul mouthed,
- more foul-mouthed,
- foul,
- indecent,
- most foul-mouthed,
- in decent,
- in-decent,
- most foul mouthed,
- more foul mouthed.
- more nocent,
- most libeling,
- un just,
- un-conducive,
- pre judicial,
- dis-advantageous,
- un-justest,
- un healthiest,
- pre-judicial,
- more libeling,
- un-just,
- dis advantageous,
- un-juster,
- un conducive,
- most nocent,
- un healthier,
- most unconducive,
- un justest,
- un juster,
- un-healthiest,
- more unconducive,
- unconducive,
- un-healthy,
- mischievous,
- un healthy.
- un pleasant,
- dis-tasteful,
- dis-agreeable,
- un kinder,
- un kind,
- un-kind,
- dis agreeable,
- un kindest,
- un-kindest,
- un-kinder,
- dis tasteful,
- beastliest,
- un-pleasant,
- beastlier.
- more unconsecrated,
- un godliest,
- more unsanctified,
- most unconsecrated,
- un sanctified,
- un consecrated,
- unholy,
- un holiest,
- most unsanctified,
- pro fane,
- more infidel,
- more irreverential,
- in-fidel,
- un godlier,
- un-godliest,
- un godly,
- more profanatory,
- un-consecrated,
- un-holier,
- un hallowed,
- pro-fane,
- un holier,
- godless,
- in fidel,
- un-godlier,
- un-godly,
- most infidel,
- un-holiest,
- most irreverential,
- most profanatory,
- un-holy,
- un holy.
- more badmannered,
- un refined,
- more bad-mannered,
- most bad-mannered,
- un educated,
- un cultured,
- un-couth,
- un-cultured,
- most badmannered,
- uneducated,
- most brutish,
- un-civilized,
- most bad mannered,
- un polished,
- badmannered,
- more bad mannered,
- more brutish,
- un civilized,
- un couth,
- un-educated,
- bad mannered,
- un-refined.
- more parodying,
- more paradoxical,
- most lampooning,
- most chaffing,
- more chaffing,
- most spoofing,
- most bantering,
- more taunting,
- most parodying,
- more bantering,
- more ridiculing,
- most paradoxical,
- more satiric,
- more lampooning,
- most taunting,
- most ridiculing,
- most ironical,
- more spoofing.
- more invective,
- more vituperatory,
- most vituperatory,
- in famous,
- most vituperous,
- most invective,
- more vituperous.
n.
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- cruel,
- corrupt,
- monstrous,
- unkind,
- hard,
- pitiless,
- uncharitable,
- evil,
- sadistic,
- brutal,
- inhuman,
- awful,
- hateful.
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- attitude,
- light touch,
- attack,
- invective.
Other synonyms:
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- conveyor belt,
- blue,
- demeaning,
- colorful,
- obscene,
- dirty,
- nurturance,
- exploitative,
- vitriolic,
- nurture,
- crude,
- X-rated,
- ripe,
- permissive,
- ingratiating,
- indulgent,
- punishment,
- lenient,
- choice,
- brotherly,
- unrepeatable.
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•
- raw.
- crusty,
- bitter,
- smutty,
- afflictive,
- stern,
- egregious,
- rowdily,
- priggish,
- assure,
- ugly,
- worthlessly,
- projectile,
- disgraceful,
- vituperation,
- heinous,
- discus,
- withering,
- caustic,
- revilement,
- Sotadean,
- perverted,
- execrable,
- brutally,
- blackening,
- missile,
- Imprecatory,
- wrong,
- stark,
- offending,
- foully,
- insupportable,
- Execrative,
- Threatful,
- terrorizing,
- unbearable,
- tyrannical,
- cruelly,
- impudent,
- foreboding,
- ill-bred,
- spartan,
- ill-tempered,
- wicked,
- overwhelming,
- abusive language,
- terroristic,
- detestable,
- austere,
- cutting,
- thersitical,
- biting,
- carcass,
- ignominious,
- defamation,
- irascible,
- shameful,
- mean,
- vile,
- scatological,
- improper,
- brickbat,
- libellous,
- cantankerous,
- beastly,
- dysphemistic,
- humiliating,
- crabbed,
- Execratory,
- Affronting,
- unfriendly,
- insist,
- Unbred,
- unthinkable,
- venomous,
- hurtful,
- outlandish,
- vilify,
- bullet,
- crotchety,
- degrading,
- allege,
- black,
- ribald,
- currish,
- unladylike,
- cold-blooded,
- drastic,
- ungentlemanly,
- Detracting,
- Ill-conditioned,
- exorbitant,
- bad-tempered,
- exploitive,
- odious,
- flagrant,
- Inveighing,
- naughty,
- mordant,
- grenade,
- Predicting,
- unpolished,
- disagreeable,
- derisory,
- lambast,
- trenchant,
- backhand,
- bleak,
- common,
- risque,
- judgmental,
- barbed,
- blameful,
- menacing,
- abominable,
- assail,
- Exaggerating,
- excessive,
- quoit,
- indignity,
- offensively,
- rudely,
- ill-mannered,
- comfortless,
- spiteful,
- hideous,
- ominous,
- assert,
- comminatory,
- Reprobative,
- rocket,
- revile,
- malevolent,
- damnatory,
- derogatory,
- uncouth,
- fulminate,
- immodest,
- ironic,
- Sotadic,
- ruffianly,
- cursing,
- draconian,
- bawdy,
- calumnious,
- unmannered,
- belabour,
- merciless,
- Unpolite,
- uncompassionate,
- indelicate,
- cranky,
- scabrous,
- Scurrile,
- irreverent,
- low,
- Execrating,
- blackguardly,
- Objurgatory,
- gibe,
- foul-spoken,
- deprecatory,
- blackguard,
- Browbeating,
- bitchy,
- abhorrent,
- uncivilized,
- discourteous,
- lowering,
- exploitatory,
- stringent,
- vulgar,
- horrible,
- bullying,
- impolite,
- condemnatory,
- filthy,
- provocation,
- curmudgeonly,
- Hudibrastic,
- grievous,
- derision,
- incisive,
- beat,
- confide,
- prohibitive,
- indecorous,
- unprintable,
- blasphemous,
- vilely,
- ignominiously,
- shell,
- cold,
- testy,
- unspeakable,
- punitive,
- coarse,
- unfeeling,
- scatologic,
- admonish,
- tart,
- brutishly,
- insensitive,
- iniquitous,
- keen,
- criminal,
- Fulminatory,
- extortionate,
- unmentionable,
- tormenting,
- declare,
- Uncourteous,
- impertinent,
- defiant,
- Black-mouthed,
- astringent,
- ill-natured,
- barbaric,
- savagely,
- scandalous,
- atrocious,
- dour,
- Misapplied,
- inveigh,
- ruthless,
- virulent,
- thrash,
- Epithetic,
- distressing,
- flak,
- stiff,
- painful,
- taunt,
- acrimonious,
- Excommunicatory,
- disapproval,
- corrosive,
- insultingly,
- murderously,
- appalling,
- derogative,
- criticism,
- damning,
- Infamously,
- infamous,
- licentious,
- snobbishly,
- depreciative,
- Hectoring,
- Bulldozing,
- attest,
- calumniatory,
- horrid,
- torturous,
- crooked,
- satiric,
- minatory,
- Ungenteel,
- ball,
- in terrorem,
- horrendous,
- inconsiderate,
- abusively,
- grisly,
- left-handed,
- punishing,
- dishonest,
- bludgeoning,
- minimizing,
- inglorious,
- Castigatory,
- acid,
- catty,
- taboo,
- blustering,
- backhanded,
- cynical,
- severe,
- unpleasant,
- Aspersive,
- rely,
- scurrilously,
- imminent,
- acerbic,
- depreciatory,
- back-biting,
- Fescennine,
- intimidating,
- cool,
- grim,
- clamorous,
- gross,
- abuse,
- denunciative,
- bad,
- destructive,
- Uncourtly,
- stinging,
- dear,
- pejorative,
- ill-behaved,
- obnoxious,
- denigrating,
- churlish,
- Detractory,
- belittling,
- threatening,
- vicious,
- swear,
- surly,
- unmannerly,
- high,
- denunciatory,
- affirm,
- affront,
- venal,
- slighting,
- harsh,
- chide,
- denounce,
- villainous,
- rough,
- minacious,
- terrorising,
- incorrect,
- Dedecorous,
- Chaffing,
- excruciating,
- malign,
- viciously.
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Equivalence
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Adjective
offensive.
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Adjective
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Independent
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Adjective
ill-treatment, inappropriate, oppressive, unreasonable, perverse, arbitrary, frivolous, mistreatment, wrongful, ill-treated, predatory, intrusive, maltreatment, humiliating, irregular, malicious, indiscriminate, rude, demeaning, exaggerated, indecent, coarse, unlawful, unsuitable, incorrect, misused, undesirable, illegitimate, unseemly, illegal, unwarranted, fraudulent, brutal, inaccurate, ill-treating, inadequate, obnoxious, battered, vicious, aggressor.
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Other Related
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Adjective
exploitative, vexatious, abused, insulting, violent, unconscionable, outrageous, obscene, degrading, violence, unethical, abuse, unfair.
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Adjective
Antonyms for Abusive:
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adj.
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exhibiting unkind behavior or words
kind, respectful, complimentary, nice.
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exhibiting unkind behavior or words
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Other antonyms:
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n.
defensive.
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n.