| Main Entry: | abusive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | exhibiting unkind behavior or words |
Synonyms: |
calumniating, castigating, censorious, contumelious, defamatory, derisive, disparaging, insolent, insulting, invective, libelous, maligning, obloquious, offensive, opprobrious, reproachful, reviling, rude, sarcastic, scathing, scolding, scurrilous, sharp-tongued, slanderous, traducing, upbraiding, vilifying, vituperative |
Antonyms: |
complimentary, kind, respectful |
| Main Entry: | defamatory |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | libelous, slanderous |
Synonyms: |
abusive, calumnious, contumelious, denigrating, derogatory, detracting, detractive, disparaging, injurious, insulting, maligning, opprobrious, traducing, vilifying, vituperative |
Antonyms: |
approving, commending, complimentary, exalting, praising |
| Main Entry: | foul |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | vulgar, offensive |
Synonyms: |
abusive, blasphemous, blue*, coarse, dirty, filthy, foul-mouthed, gross*, indecent, lewd, low, nasty, obscene, profane, raunchy, scatological, scurrilous, smutty |
Antonyms: |
clean, innocent, inoffensive, moral |
| Main Entry: | injurious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hurtful |
Synonyms: |
abusive, adverse, bad, baneful, corrupting, damaging, dangerous, deadly, deleterious, destructive, detrimental, disadvantageous, evil, harmful, iniquitous, insulting, libeling, mischievous, nocent, nocuous, noxious, opprobrious, pernicious, poisonous, prejudicial, ruinous, slanderous, unconducive, unhealthy, unjust, wrongful |
Antonyms: |
aiding, assisting, beneficial, constructive, curing, fixing, good, healing, helpful, mending, nice |
| Main Entry: | insolent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bold, disrespectful |
Synonyms: |
abusive, arrogant, barefaced, brassy, brazen, breezy, contemptuous, contumelious, dictatorial, discourteous, disdainful, flip*, fresh, imperative, impertinent, impolite, impudent, insubordinate, insulting, magisterial, nervy, off-base, offensive, out-of-line, overbearing, peremptory, pert, procacious, put down, rude, sassy*, saucy*, smart, smart-alecky, uncivil, ungracious |
Antonyms: |
cowardly, humble, modest, polite, respectful, servile |
| Main Entry: | nasty |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bad-tempered, mean |
Synonyms: |
abusive, annoying, beastly, critical, cruel, despicable, disagreeable, distasteful, evil, fierce, hateful, malevolent, malicious, malign, malignant, ornery, ruthless, sarcastic, sordid, spiteful, squalid, unkind, unpleasant, vicious, vile, wicked |
Antonyms: |
agreeable, friendly, happy, kind, pleasant |
| Main Entry: | offensive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | disrespectful, insulting; displeasing |
Synonyms: |
abhorrent, abusive, annoying, biting, cutting, detestable, disagreeable, discourteous, distasteful, dreadful, embarrassing, evil, foul, ghastly, grisly, gross, hideous, horrible, horrid, impertinent, insolent, invidious, irritating, nauseating, objectionable, obnoxious, odious, off-color, offending, opprobrious, outrageous, repellent, reprehensible, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, rotten, rude, shocking, stinking, terrible, uncivil, unmannerly |
Antonyms: |
agreeable, kind, nice, pleasing, respectful |
| Main Entry: | profane |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | immoral, crude, disrespectful of religion |
Synonyms: |
abusive, atheistic, blasphemous, coarse, dirty*, filthy*, foul, godless, heathen, idolatrous, impious, impure, indecent, infidel, irreligious, irreverent, irreverential, mundane, nasty, obscene, pagan, profanatory, raunchy, sacrilegious, sinful, smutty, temporal, transient, transitory, unconsecrated, ungodly, unhallowed, unholy, unsanctified, vulgar, wicked, worldly |
Antonyms: |
clean, moral, sacred |
| Main Entry: | rank |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | obscene, vulgar |
Synonyms: |
abusive, atrocious, coarse, crass, dirty, filthy, foul, gross, indecent, nasty, outrageous, raunchy, scurrilous, shocking, smutty, wicked |
Antonyms: |
clean, moral |
| Main Entry: | rude |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | disrespectful, rough |
Synonyms: |
abrupt, abusive, bad-mannered, barbarian, barbaric, barbarous, blunt, boorish, brusque, brutish, cheeky, churlish, coarse, crabbed, crude, curt, discourteous, graceless, gross, gruff, ignorant, illiterate, impertinent, impolite, impudent, inconsiderate, insolent, insulting, intrusive, loutish, low, obscene, offhand, peremptory, raw, savage, scurrilous, short, surly, uncivil, uncivilized, uncouth, uncultured, uneducated, ungracious, unmannerly, unpolished, unrefined, vulgar, wild |
Antonyms: |
kind, mannerly, nice, polite, respectful |