1 (of speech or of a person) rude and offensive; criticizing rudely and unfairly:
abusive language / remarks * He became abusive when he was drunk.
2 (of behaviour) involving violence:
an abusive relationship
abusively adverb (rare)
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for abusive is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is abusive a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, abusive is tagged as adjective.
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