Abusive meaning : 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.