abusive

Meanings

Adjective Satellite

• expressing offensive reproach
• characterized by physical or psychological maltreatment
  • "abusive punishment"
  • "argued...that foster homes are abusive"

Adj

• Prone to treat someone badly by coarse, insulting words or other maltreatment; vituperative; reproachful; scurrilous.
• Tending to deceive; fraudulent.
• Tending to misuse; practising or containing abuse.
• Being physically or emotionally injurious; characterized by repeated violence or other abuse.
• Wrongly used; perverted; misapplied; unjust; illegal.
• Catachrestic.

Synonyms

berating, injurious, insolent, insulting, offensive, opprobrious, reproachful, reviling, scurrilous, vituperative

Antonyms

abuseless, nonabusive, unabusive