insultiveとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

insultive (comparative more insultive, superlative most insultive)

1. (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."

使用する際の注意点

• This word is about 0.01% as common as insulting and does not appear in most dictionaries.

同意語

• insultative

参照

• “insultive”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “insultive”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.