abrasive

/əˈbɹeɪ.sɪv/

adj 2noun 2

Collocations

ADJ.

damaged, english, little, mild, unpleasant

VERB + ABRASIVE

apologized, avoid, came, ching, find, seemed, sounds, stand

ABRASIVE + NOUN

agg, cleaner, cleaners, cleanser, employer, people, person, personality

PREP.

across, around, on

ADV.

terribly, unpleasantly

Definitions

adj

Producing abrasion; rough enough to wear away the outer surface.

Being rough and coarse in manner or disposition; overly aggressive and causing irritation.

An abrasive person can grate on one's sensibilities.

Despite her proper upbringing, we found her manners to be terribly abrasive.

noun

A hard inorganic substance or material consisting in powder or granule form such as sandpaper, pumice, or emery, used for cleaning, smoothing, or polishing.

Rock fragments, sand grains, mineral particles, used by water, wind, and ice to abrade a land surface.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — a substance that abrades or wears down

abradant

adjective — sharply disagreeable

harsh

adjective — causing abrasion

scratchy

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

Example Bank

An abrasive person can grate on one's sensibilities.

Wiktionary

Despite her proper upbringing, we found her manners to be terribly abrasive.

Wiktionary

The women of the movement, it struck me, were more humorless and more single-minded in their total dedication to the ideology than were the men. In fact, Chiang Ching was unpleasantly abrasive and agg

Wiktionary

Do you think I'm abrasive?

Tatoeba · #1886056

He was being very abrasive.

Tatoeba · #3545851

He has an abrasive personality.

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