abusive /əˈbjuː.sɪv/ adjective6 •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. •Being physically or emotionally injurious; characterized by repeated violence or other abuse. •Wrongly used; perverted; misapplied; unjust; illegal.I am […]necessitated to use the word Parliament improperly, according to the abusive acceptation thereof. — 1662 •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 •(no longer used) Catachrestic. •(no longer used) Tending to deceive; fraudulent. formsmore abusive · most abusive