The difference between Abusive and Vituperative

When used as adjectives, abusive means prone to treat someone badly by coarse, insulting words or other maltreatment, whereas vituperative means marked by harsh, spoken, or written abuse.

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  1. Abusive as an adjective:

    Prone to treat someone badly by coarse, insulting words or other maltreatment; vituperative; reproachful; scurrilous.

  2. Abusive as an adjective (obsolete):

    Tending to deceive; fraudulent.

  3. Abusive as an adjective (archaic):

    Given to misusing; also, full of abuses.

  4. Abusive as an adjective (obsolete):

    Given to misusing.

  5. Abusive as an adjective:

    Being physically injurious; characterized by repeated violence.

  6. Abusive as an adjective:

    Wrongly used; perverted; misapplied; unjust; illegal.

  7. Abusive as an adjective (archaic):

    Catachrestic.

  8. Abusive as an adjective (archaic):

    Full of abuses; practicing abuse; containing abuse, or serving as the instrument of abuse.

  1. Vituperative as an adjective:

    Marked by harsh, spoken, or written abuse; abusive, often with ranting or railing.

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