The difference between Abusive and Invective
When used as adjectives, abusive means prone to treat someone badly by coarse, insulting words or other maltreatment, whereas invective means characterized by invection or railing.
Invective is also noun with the meaning: an expression which inveighs or rails against a person.
check bellow for the other definitions of Abusive and Invective
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Abusive as an adjective:
Prone to treat someone badly by coarse, insulting words or other maltreatment; vituperative; reproachful; scurrilous.
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Abusive as an adjective (obsolete):
Tending to deceive; fraudulent.
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Abusive as an adjective (archaic):
Given to misusing; also, full of abuses.
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Abusive as an adjective (obsolete):
Given to misusing.
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Abusive as an adjective:
Being physically injurious; characterized by repeated violence.
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Abusive as an adjective:
Wrongly used; perverted; misapplied; unjust; illegal.
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Abusive as an adjective (archaic):
Catachrestic.
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Abusive as an adjective (archaic):
Full of abuses; practicing abuse; containing abuse, or serving as the instrument of abuse.
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Invective as a noun:
An expression which inveighs or rails against a person.
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Invective as a noun:
A severe or violent censure or reproach.
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Invective as a noun:
Something spoken or written, intended to cast shame, disgrace, censure, or reproach on another.
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Invective as a noun:
A harsh or reproachful accusation.
Examples:
"Politics can raise invective to a low art."
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Invective as an adjective:
Characterized by invection or railing.
Examples:
"Tom's speeches became diatribes — each more invective than the last."