Abusive vs Audacious - What's the difference?
abusive | audacious | Related terms |
Wrongly used; perverted; misapplied; unjust; illegal.
* I am ... necessitated to use the word Parliament improperly, according to the abusive acceptation thereof. - Fuller
(archaic) Catachrestic.
(archaic) Full of abuses; practicing abuse; containing abuse, or serving as the instrument of abuse.
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Prone to ill treat by coarse, insulting words or by other ill usage; vituperative; reproachful; scurrilous.
* An abusive lampoon. - A dictionary of the English language
(obsolete) Tending to deceive; fraudulent.
* An abusive treaty. -
(archaic) Given to misusing; also, full of abuses.
* The abusive prerogatives of his see. -
(obsolete) Given to misusing.
Being physically injurious; characterized by repeated violence.
Showing willingness to take bold risks; recklessly daring.
* 22 March 2012 , Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Games [http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-hunger-games,71293/]
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Impudent.
Abusive is a related term of audacious.
As adjectives the difference between abusive and audacious
is that abusive is wrongly used; perverted; misapplied; unjust; illegal while audacious is showing willingness to take bold risks; recklessly daring.abusive
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Synonyms
* reproachful, scurrilous, opprobrious, insolent, insulting, injurious, offensive, reviling, berating, vituperativeDerived terms
* abusively * abusivenessReferences
audacious
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- That such a safe adaptation could come of The Hunger Games speaks more to the trilogy’s commercial ascent than the book’s actual content, which is audacious and savvy in its dark calculations.