Abusiveとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /əˈbjuː.sɪv/
• (米国発音) IPA: /əˈbju.sɪv/, /əˈbju.zɪv/

形容詞

abusive (comparative more abusive, superlative most abusive)

1. Prone to treat someone badly by coarse, insulting words or other maltreatment; vituperative; reproachful; scurrilous. [First attested in the early 17th century.]

   All they could ever do was to shout abusive inanities at me and my colleagues.

2. (obsolete) Tending to deceive; fraudulent. [Attested only from the early to mid 17th century.]
   • a. 1627 (date written), Francis [Bacon], “Considerations Touching a Warre with Spaine. […]”, in William Rawley, editor, Certaine Miscellany Works of the Right Honourable Francis Lo. Verulam, Viscount S. Alban. […], London: […] I. Hauiland for Humphrey Robinson, […], published 1629, →OCLC:

     an abusive treaty

3. (archaic) Tending to misuse; practising or containing abuse. [First attested in the late 16th century.]
   • 1589, Thomas Nashe, The Anatomy of Absurdity:

     […] to begin in this vacation the foundation of a trifling subject which might shroud in his leaves the abusive enormities of these our times.

   • 1837, Henry Hallam, Introduction to the Literature of Europe:

     the abusive prerogatives of his see

4. Being physically or emotionally injurious; characterized by repeated violence or other abuse.
5. Wrongly used; perverted; misapplied; unjust; illegal. [First attested in the mid 16th century.]
   • 1662, Thomas Fuller, Worthies of England:

     I am […] necessitated to use the word Parliament improperly, according to the abusive acceptation thereof.

6. (archaic) Catachrestic. [First attested in the mid 16th century.]

同意語

• (prone to treating badly): reproachful, scurrilous, opprobrious, insolent, insulting, injurious, offensive, reviling, berating, vituperative

反意語

• abuseless, nonabusive, unabusive

派生語

• abusively
• abusiveness

参照

形容詞

abūsīve

1. vocative masculine singular of abūsīvus

副詞

abusive (not comparable)

1. wrongly, in an incorrect manner, by catachresis
2. slightly, not really in earnest

参照

• “abusive”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• abusive in Georges, Karl Ernst, Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918) Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 1, Hahnsche Buchhandlung
• abusive in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.