Definition of "abusive"

abusive

/əˈbjuː.sɪv/

adjective
comparative more abusive, superlative most abusive
1. Prone to treat someone badly by coarse, insulting words or other maltreatment; vituperative; reproachful; scurrilous.
2. (obsolete) Tending to deceive; fraudulent.
  Quotations
  an abusive treaty
  a. 1627 (date written), Francis [Bacon], “Considerations Touching a VVarre vvith Spaine. […]”, in William Rawley, editor, Certaine Miscellany VVorks of the Right Honourable Francis Lo. Verulam, Viscount S. Alban. […], London: […] I. Hauiland for Humphrey Robinson, […], published 1629
3. (archaic) Tending to misuse; practising or containing abuse.
  Quotations
  […] 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, Thomas Nashe, The Anatomy of Absurdity
  the abusive prerogatives of his see
  1837, Henry Hallam, Introduction to the Literature of Europe
4. Being physically or emotionally injurious; characterized by repeated violence or other abuse.
5. Wrongly used; perverted; misapplied; unjust; illegal.
  Quotations
  I am […] necessitated to use the word Parliament improperly, according to the abusive acceptation thereof.
  1662, Thomas Fuller, Worthies of England
6. (archaic) Catachrestic.