Dictionary Entry
abusive
abusive is a 7-letter English word with 7 senses as adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Wrongly used; perverted; misapplied. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
7 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 15 · 7 senses
Definitions
- 1adjective
Wrongly used; perverted; misapplied.
- 2adjective
Given to misusing; also, full of abuses.
- 3adjective
Practicing abuse; prone to ill treat by coarse, insulting words or by other ill usage; as, an abusive author; an abusive fellow.
- 4adjective
Containing abuse, or serving as the instrument of abuse; vituperative; reproachful; scurrilous.
- 5adjective
Tending to deceive; fraudulent; cheating.
- 6adjective
characterized by physical or psychological maltreatment
"abusive punishment"
"argued...that foster homes are abusive"
- 7adjective
expressing offensive reproach
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