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Abusive vs Horrid - What's the difference?

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Abusive is a related term of horrid.


In archaic|lang=en terms the difference between abusive and horrid

is that abusive is (archaic) given to misusing; also, full of abuses while horrid is (archaic) bristling, rough, rugged.

As adjectives the difference between abusive and horrid

is that abusive is wrongly used; perverted; misapplied; unjust; illegal while horrid is (archaic) bristling, rough, rugged.

abusive

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • 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.

    • Synonyms

    * reproachful, scurrilous, opprobrious, insolent, insulting, injurious, offensive, reviling, berating, vituperative

    Derived terms

    * abusively * abusiveness

    References

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    horrid

    English

    Adjective

    (en-adj)
  • (archaic) bristling, rough, rugged
    • His haughtie Helmet. horrid all with gold,//Both glorious brightnesse and great terror bredd. - , The Faerie Queen , I-vii-31
    Horrid with fern, and intricate with thorn. -
    Ye grots and caverns shagg's with horrid thorn! - , Eloisa to Abelard , I-20
  • causing horror or dread
    • Give colour to my pale cheek with thy blood,//that we the horrider may seem to those//Which chance to find us. - Shakespeare, Cymbeline , IV-ii
    I myself will be//The priest, and boldly do those horrid rites//You shake to think on. - , Sea Voyage , V-iv
    Not in the legions Of horrid hell. - Shakespeare, Macbeth , IV-iii
    What say you then to fair Sir Percivale,//And of the horrid foulness that he wrought? - , Merlin and Vivien
  • offensive, disagreeable, abominable, execrable
    • 1668' My Lord Chief Justice Keeling hath laid the constable by the heels to answer it next Sessions: which is a '''horrid shame. - , ''Diary , October 23
    About the middle of November we began to work on our Ship's bottom, which we found very much eaten with the Worm: For this is a horrid place for Worms. - , Voyages , I-362
    Already I your tears survey,//Already hear the horrid things they say. - , The Rape of the Lock , IV-108

    Usage notes

    * "Horrid" and "horrible" originally had different meanings, but have become almost synonymous over the years.

    Synonyms

    * abominable * alarming * appalling * awful * dire * dreadful * frightful * harrowing * hideous * horrible * revolting * shocking * terrific

    References

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