Definition for Abusive:

• Of the nature of or marked by abuse.

Synonyms for Abusive:

• adj.

  •contemptuous (adjective)
  • derisive,
  • deprecative,
  • mocking,
  • Ridiculing,
  • disparaging,
  • sarcastic,
  • scoffing,
  • disdainful,
  • sardonic,
  • contemptuous,
  • jeering,
  • antipathetic,
  • flippant.
  •exhibiting unkind behavior or words (adjective)
  • scolding,
  • sharp-tongued,
  • Castigating,
  • Maligning,
  • Traducing,
  • Calumniating,
  • upbraiding,
  • Vilifying,
  • libelous,
  • scathing,
  • Obloquious.
  •violent (adjective)
  • ferocious,
  • violent,
  • uproarious,
  • vehement,
  • frenzied,
  • brawling,
  • intense,
  • broiling,
  • tumultuous,
  • raging,
  • furious,
  • fighting,
  • assaultive,
  • savage,
  • wild,
  • fierce.

• n.

  •
  • cruel,
  • corrupt,
  • monstrous,
  • unkind,
  • hard,
  • pitiless,
  • uncharitable,
  • evil,
  • sadistic,
  • brutal,
  • inhuman,
  • awful,
  • hateful.
  •
  • attitude,
  • light touch,
  • attack,
  • invective.
  •abusive (noun)
  • harmful.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • demeaning,
  • crude,
  • nurture,
  • lenient,
  • brotherly,
  • ripe,
  • ingratiating,
  • indulgent,
  • permissive,
  • blue,
  • dirty,
  • obscene,
  • X-rated,
  • colorful,
  • vitriolic,
  • punishment,
  • nurturance,
  • exploitative.
  •
  • raw.
  •Other relevant words:
  • swear,
  • indelicate,
  • horrid,
  • malevolent,
  • Black-mouthed,
  • mordant,
  • improper,
  • draconian,
  • abuse,
  • bad-tempered,
  • murderously,
  • affirm,
  • blackening,
  • Dedecorous,
  • Hectoring,
  • disapproval,
  • unmentionable,
  • bullet,
  • criminal,
  • abusive language,
  • taboo,
  • coarse,
  • intimidating,
  • Sotadean,
  • allege,
  • criticism,
  • blustering,
  • Epithetic,
  • assail,
  • defamation,
  • incisive,
  • cold-blooded,
  • threatening,
  • vicious,
  • Execrating,
  • scatological,
  • scurrilously,
  • uncivilized,
  • disagreeable,
  • damning,
  • fulminate,
  • deprecatory,
  • belittling,
  • Detracting,
  • biting,
  • caustic,
  • perverted,
  • blameful,
  • severe,
  • bleak,
  • grisly,
  • wrong,
  • irreverent,
  • declare,
  • gross,
  • tyrannical,
  • unmannerly,
  • minacious,
  • surly,
  • Fescennine,
  • common,
  • ugly,
  • corrosive,
  • catty,
  • derisory,
  • derogatory,
  • discus,
  • detestable,
  • barbaric,
  • acrimonious,
  • exploitatory,
  • insultingly,
  • cold,
  • denigrating,
  • ruffianly,
  • punishing,
  • assure,
  • minatory,
  • left-handed,
  • slighting,
  • savagely,
  • unpolished,
  • low,
  • dysphemistic,
  • acid,
  • offending,
  • mean,
  • derision,
  • attest,
  • humiliating,
  • depreciatory,
  • denounce,
  • ungentlemanly,
  • villainous,
  • heinous,
  • chide,
  • filthy,
  • ironic,
  • damnatory,
  • judgmental,
  • naughty,
  • abominable,
  • odious,
  • inconsiderate,
  • immodest,
  • ignominious,
  • worthlessly,
  • unbearable,
  • confide,
  • Ill-conditioned,
  • foully,
  • calumniatory,
  • rocket,
  • disgraceful,
  • satiric,
  • cool,
  • ill-mannered,
  • Unpolite,
  • lowering,
  • priggish,
  • rely,
  • condemnatory,
  • revilement,
  • vilely,
  • bitter,
  • hideous,
  • projectile,
  • hurtful,
  • menacing,
  • offensively,
  • uncompassionate,
  • abhorrent,
  • Exaggerating,
  • afflictive,
  • beat,
  • Infamously,
  • denunciative,
  • cantankerous,
  • dour,
  • unthinkable,
  • black,
  • libellous,
  • viciously,
  • withering,
  • cynical,
  • obnoxious,
  • uncouth,
  • vituperation,
  • vilify,
  • testy,
  • unfeeling,
  • impolite,
  • cranky,
  • foreboding,
  • derogative,
  • Imprecatory,
  • merciless,
  • quoit,
  • prohibitive,
  • flagrant,
  • smutty,
  • stinging,
  • blasphemous,
  • ill-bred,
  • brutally,
  • belabour,
  • wicked,
  • calumnious,
  • carcass,
  • brutishly,
  • unmannered,
  • egregious,
  • clamorous,
  • high,
  • horrendous,
  • unpleasant,
  • cruelly,
  • beastly,
  • extortionate,
  • stern,
  • rough,
  • Execratory,
  • comminatory,
  • infamous,
  • Misapplied,
  • indecorous,
  • stiff,
  • distressing,
  • excessive,
  • Browbeating,
  • grievous,
  • unfriendly,
  • outlandish,
  • foul,
  • ruthless,
  • comfortless,
  • abusively,
  • crabbed,
  • terrorizing,
  • taunt,
  • execrable,
  • venomous,
  • blackguard,
  • inglorious,
  • churlish,
  • Objurgatory,
  • Chaffing,
  • dear,
  • excruciating,
  • rudely,
  • assert,
  • Scurrile,
  • impertinent,
  • stark,
  • exorbitant,
  • indecent,
  • Reprobative,
  • grim,
  • rowdily,
  • imminent,
  • Ungenteel,
  • admonish,
  • punitive,
  • blackguardly,
  • virulent,
  • Castigatory,
  • malign,
  • bitchy,
  • shameful,
  • painful,
  • ill-behaved,
  • bad,
  • iniquitous,
  • Sotadic,
  • destructive,
  • curmudgeonly,
  • insupportable,
  • Detractory,
  • Hudibrastic,
  • crusty,
  • cursing,
  • revile,
  • inveigh,
  • denunciatory,
  • Threatful,
  • acerbic,
  • astringent,
  • Uncourteous,
  • thrash,
  • back-biting,
  • torturous,
  • bullying,
  • Predicting,
  • spiteful,
  • unladylike,
  • ill-tempered,
  • scabrous,
  • vile,
  • insist,
  • defiant,
  • appalling,
  • scandalous,
  • unprintable,
  • Fulminatory,
  • Unbred,
  • pejorative,
  • crotchety,
  • venal,
  • flak,
  • discourteous,
  • incorrect,
  • irascible,
  • bludgeoning,
  • overwhelming,
  • degrading,
  • grenade,
  • atrocious,
  • Excommunicatory,
  • in terrorem,
  • gibe,
  • stringent,
  • crooked,
  • unspeakable,
  • impudent,
  • scatologic,
  • Affronting,
  • harsh,
  • bawdy,
  • risque,
  • Inveighing,
  • missile,
  • brickbat,
  • tormenting,
  • horrible,
  • tart,
  • indignity,
  • depreciative,
  • Aspersive,
  • insensitive,
  • ignominiously,
  • minimizing,
  • shell,
  • vulgar,
  • licentious,
  • drastic,
  • thersitical,
  • provocation,
  • keen,
  • cutting,
  • barbed,
  • ribald,
  • affront,
  • trenchant,
  • lambast,
  • austere,
  • dishonest,
  • Uncourtly,
  • exploitive,
  • Bulldozing,
  • backhand,
  • snobbishly,
  • Execrative,
  • foul-spoken,
  • ball,
  • terrorising,
  • spartan,
  • currish,
  • terroristic,
  • ill-natured,
  • backhanded,
  • ominous.

Paraphrases for Abusive:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    offensive.

• Independent

  • 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.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    exploitative, vexatious, abused, insulting, violent, unconscionable, outrageous, obscene, degrading, violence, unethical, abuse, unfair.
  • Proper noun, singular
    abuse, abuses, unfair.

Antonyms for Abusive:

• adj.

  • exhibiting unkind behavior or words
    kind, respectful, complimentary, nice.
  • Other antonyms:
    gracious, civil, discreet, inoffensive, laudatory, temperate, moderate, judicious, mannerly, unoffending, encomiastic, harmless, praiseful, tempered, polite, courteous, Laudative.

• Other antonyms:

  • n.
    defensive.

Homophones for Abusive:

• apocope, Abu Sayyaf, Aphis Fabae, apojove.