Skip to content
ontologydriven
Sign out

Dictionary

Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

harassive en · ADJ

Etymology

From harass + -ive.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Characterized by the tendency to harass; tending to harass; constituting or pertaining to harassment.
    • The hypothesis that women generally perceive sexually harassive conduct in the workplace to be unacceptable is clearly supported by these results. 1993, Americas & Latinas:
    • Specifically, former Supervisor (Christie) indicated having "warned" Grievant J_ about his harassive behavior toward the female approximately three (3) to four (4) months prior to her submission of the complaint. 1990, Labor Arbitration Reports:
    • A set of jointly necessary and sufficient conditions of sexual harassment are defended which purport to capture the more subtle instances of sexual harassment while circumventing those sexual advances that are not sexually harassive. 2001, Robert A. H. Larmer, Ethics in the Workplace: Selected Readings in Business Ethics:
    • A person's dignity can be violated without causing an harassive environment and an harassive environment may not necessarily violate an individual's dignity. Harassive in this context meaning - hostile, degrading, humiliating or offensive. 2006, Equality Commission for Northern Ireland, Harassment & Bullying in the Workplace:

Antonyms

supportive · friendly

Synonyms

hindering · bullying