insultive
English edit
Etymology edit
Adjective edit
insultive (comparative more insultive, superlative most insultive)
- (rare, nonstandard) Insulting
- 1795, Thomas Blackwell, J. U. D., Memoirs of the Court of Augustus, volume IV, page 154:
- The inſultive Epigram, which I make no Doubt ſhe has ſeen, concludes with a cutting Inſinuation, that the Man who touched her, bid fair to loſe his Manhood. To an ordinary Female this was unpardonable — What muſt be it to a lady of the higheſt Pride and Jealouſy?
- 1895, Frank Frankfort Moore, chapter VI, in One Fair Daughter, volume 1, pages 234–235:
- Perhaps it was the too-tooing of the youth on the coach horn which frustrated the proposal, and made it appear ludicrous rather than insultive to her ears.
- 1987 November 13, “Testimony of December 4, 1972 Before the Water Island Commission”, in Secretary of the Interior's Report on Water Island, published 1991, Serial No. 100-84, page 231 (17):
- Mr. Olive: Normally I would, but he wasn't insultive or abusive. He just drove right up- he said, "Please clean the beach up when you get through and took right off."
Usage notes edit
- This word is about 0.01% as common as insulting and does not appear in most dictionaries.
Translations edit
insulting — see insulting
References edit
- “insultive”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- “insultive”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.