abusively

1. 1.

   in an abusive manner

   “he behaved abusively toward his children”

Questions about abusively

What does abusively mean?

abusively means "in an abusive manner".

How many syllables are in abusively?

abusively has 5 syllables: a-bu-si-ve-ly. The stress falls on "si".

Is abusively a common word?

abusively is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.