Damaging vs Abusive - What's the difference?
damaging | abusive | Related terms |
Harmful; injurious; causing damage.
*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-19, author=
, volume=189, issue=6, page=1, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title=
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.
*
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.
Damaging is a related term of abusive.
As adjectives the difference between damaging and abusive
is that damaging is harmful; injurious; causing damage while abusive is wrongly used; perverted; misapplied; unjust; illegal .As a verb damaging
is .damaging
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Mark Tran
Denied an education by war, passage=One particularly damaging , but often ignored, effect of conflict on education is the proliferation of attacks on schools