INVECTIVE DEFINITIONS - 9 definitions found
invective n 1: abusive or venomous language used to express blame or censure or bitter deep-seated ill will [syn: vituperation, invective, vitriol] Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 11th Edition (2003) invective I. adjective Etymology: Middle English invectif, from Middle French, from Latin invectivus, from invectus, past participle of invehere Date: 15th century of, relating to, or characterized by insult or abuse • invectively adverb • invectiveness noun II. noun Date: 1523 1. an abusive expression or speech 2. insulting or abusive language ; vituperation Synonyms: see abuse Oxford English Reference Dictionary
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner\'s English Dictionary invective Invective is rude and unpleasant things that people shout at people they hate or are angry with. (FORMAL) A woman had hurled racist invective at the family... N-UNCOUNT: usu with supp Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) Invective \In*vec"tive\, a. [L. invectivus: cf. F. invectif. See Inveigh.] Characterized by invection; critical; denunciatory; satirical; abusive; railing. Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) Invective \In*vec"tive\, n. [F. invective.] An expression which inveighs or rails against a person; a severe or violent censure or reproach; something uttered or written, intended to cast opprobrium, censure, or reproach on another; a harsh or reproachful accusation; -- followed by against, having reference to the person or thing affected; as an invective against tyranny. The world will be able to judge of his [Junius'] motives for writing such famous invectives. --Sir W. Draper. Syn: Abuse; censure; reproach; satire; sarcasm; railing; diatribe. See Abuse. Soule\'s Dictionary of English Synonyms invective I. n. 1. Abuse, contumely, reproach, censure, railing, vituperation, sarcastic attack, rhetorical assault. 2. Satire, sarcasm, pasquinade, philippic, diatribe, fling. II. a. 1. Abusive, reproachful, censorious, captious, railing, scolding. 2. Satirical, sarcastic, assailing. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 105 Moby Thesaurus words for "invective": abuse, abusive, address, after-dinner speech, allocution, assailing, assault, attack, berating, billingsgate, bitter words, blackening, blameful, calumny, causticity, censorious, chalk talk, condemnatory, contemptuous, contumelious, contumely, cynicism, damnatory, debate, declamation, denunciatory, deprecative, deprecatory, depreciative, derisive, diatribe, disparaging, eulogy, execrating, execration, execrative, execratory, exhortation, filibuster, forensic, forensic address, formal speech, funeral oration, harangue, hard words, hortatory address, inaugural, inaugural address, innuendo, inveighing, irony, jawing, jeremiad, judgmental, objurgatory, obloquy, onslaught, opprobrious, opprobrium, oration, pep talk, peroration, philippic, pitch, prepared speech, prepared text, priggish, public speech, rating, reading, recital, recitation, reproachful, reprobative, revilement, reviling, ridiculing, sales talk, salutatory, salutatory address, sarcasm, satire, satiric wit, say, scoffing, screed, scurrile, scurrility, scurrilous, set speech, speech, speechification, speeching, talk, talkathon, tirade, tongue-lashing, truculent, valediction, valedictory, valedictory address, vilification, vilifying, vituperation, vituperative |
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