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Definition: Invective |
InvectiveNoun1. The expression of bitter deep-seated ill will; rancor. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "invective" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Dream Interpretation | To dream of using invectives, warns you of passionate outbursts of anger, which may estrange you from close companions. To hear others using them, enemies are closing you in to apparent wrong and deceits. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
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Synonyms: InvectiveSynonyms: vitriol (n), vituperation (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Accusation | Noun: accusation, charge, imputation, slur, inculpation, exprobration, delation; crimination; incrimination, accrimination, recrimination; tu quoque argument; invective. |
Detraction | Sarcasm, cynicism; criticism (disapprobation); invective; envenomed tongue; spretae injuria formae. |
Disapprobation | Chiding, upbraiding;Verb: exprobation, abuse, vituperation, invective, objurgation, contumely; hard words, cutting words, bitter words. |
Malediction | Threat; more bark than bite; invective; (disapprobation). |
Abuse; foul language, bad language, strong language, unparliamentary language; billingsgate, sauce, evil speaking; cursing; Verb: profane swearing, oath; foul invective, ribaldry, rude reproach, scurrility. | |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Invective |
| English words defined with "invective": Invection, Invectively. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "invective": BILLINGSGATE. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Invective" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. French (insult, invective), Latin (scoldingly). |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | They were wholly deaf to my arguments, or failed to perceive their force, and fell into a strain of invective that was irresistible |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Civil Liberties | Swaziland | In general both the government-owned and independent newspapers covered a wide variety of sensitive topics and criticized government corruption, inefficiency, and waste, frequently using harsh invective. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | BILLINGSGATE, n. The invective of an opponent. |
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| "Invective" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 53.23% of the time. "Invective" is used about 62 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 53.23% | 33 | 60,273 |
| Noun (singular) | 45.16% | 28 | 65,706 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.61% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 62 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "invective": foul invective. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
invective | 9 |
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| Language | Translations for "invective"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | sharje (abuse, animadversion, bad language, chastisement, curse, damn, dispraise, dressing down, embroilment, lashing, mudslinging, oath, obscenities, quarrel, scolding, swear word, swearing, talking to, vituperation, wigging). (various references) | |
Arabic | قدحي, قدح (dispraise, glass, goblet, libel, percuss, slander, slur, snap, tumbler, vituperate, vituperation), طعني (libellous), طعن قذف (defamation, obloquy, slur), ذمي, ذم (asperse, blacken, blackguard, disparage, disparagement, dispraise, slur, vilify, vituperate, vituperation). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | хули (obloquy, opprobrium), обиди, нападки (attacks, oppugnancy, zap). (various references) | |
Chinese | 谩骂. (various references) | |
Czech | urážlivý (abusive, contumelious, huffish, huffy, hurtful, injurious, obnoxious, offensive, outrageous, petulant, shocking, touchy). (various references) | |
Danish | skældsord (term of abuse). (various references) | |
Dutch | schimpwoord (term of abuse), scheldwoord (term of abuse). (various references) | |
Farsi | پرخاش (Quarrel, Ruffe), ناسزاگوءی (Obloquy, Vituperation), سخن حمله امیز, طعن . (various references) | |
Finnish | haukkumasanat (abuse). (various references) | |
French | invective (insult). (various references) | |
German | schimpfend (badmouthing, blusterous, inveighing, sassing, upbraiding). (various references) | |
Greek | ύβρισ (abuse, affront, contumely, indignity, insult, opprobrium, vituperation), προσβλητικόσ (affrontive, insulting, offensive), προσβολή (affront, assault, attack, blow, derogation, indignity, insult, mortification, offence, outrage, slur, stroke, umbrage), υβριστικόσ (abusive, derogatory, insulting, obloquious, opprobrious, vituperative), υβρεολόγιο (abusive language, tirade). (various references) | |
Hebrew | חרוף (abuse, blasphemy, curse), "עלב" (abashment, affront, insulting), '"וף (abuse, blasphemy, curse, insult, obloquy, profanity, revilement, scorn, swearword, vilification, vituperation). (various references) | |
Hungarian | kirohanás vki ellen, förmedvény (libel). (various references) | |
Icelandic | skammaryrði (term of abuse). (various references) | |
Indonesian | makian. (various references) | |
Italian | invettiva (ranting). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 痛罵 (abuse, denunciation). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | つうば (abuse, denunciation). (various references) | |
Manx | flout (affront, aspersion, gibe, rebuff, rebuttal, reproach, scorn, slander, snub, stigma, taunt, vituperation). (various references) | |
Norwegian | skjellsord (term of abuse). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | invectiveay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | invetivo, invetiva (objurgation, tirade), invectivo, invectiva (objurgation, tirade), injurioso (contumelious, injurious, libellous, opprobrious, outrageous, unparliamentary, vituperative), injúria (abuse, bruise, contumely, despite, insult, mischief, outrage, railing, violence, vituperation, wrong), expressão injuriosa (abusive terms). (various references) | |
Romanian | invectivã (abuse, railing), insultã (abuse, affront, contumely, dirt, hurt, insult, offence, slap, slur). (various references) | |
Russian | ругательства (opprobrious language), ругань (abusive, bad language, bawdry, swearing). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | pogrdan (abusive, foul, insulting, libellous, libelous, opprobrious, pejorative). (various references) | |
Spanish | invectiva. (various references) | |
Swedish | invektiv, smädelse (abuse, aspersion, obloquy, opprobrium, vituperation), skymford (insulting word, vituperation), skällsord (foul language, term of abuse, word of abuse), ovett (abuse, railing, scolding). (various references) | |
Thai | คำหยาบ. (various references) | |
Turkish | sövüp sayma (fulmination, swearing), küfür (a bad word, abuse, blasphemy, contumely, curse, cuss, cuss word, expletive, invectives, oath, profanity, revilement, scurrility, strong language, swearing, swearword), hakaret (affront, contempt, contumely, cuss word, defamation, epithet, hotfoot, indignity, insult, opprobrium, outrage, revilement, slap, slap in the face, slight, slur, snub). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | образлива промова, лайливий (abusive, opprobrious, pejorative). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | thoá mạ (scandalous), tố cáo kịch liệt chửi rủa thậm tệ, lời thoá mạ, lời tố cáo kịch liệt lời chửi rủa thậm tệ, lời công kích dữ dội, công kích dữ dội. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | in. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | invectio. (various references) |
| Late Latin | 300-700 | invectivus. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "invective": invectively, invectiveness, invectivenesses, invectives. (additional references) | |
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"Invective" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: injective, insectival, insertive, invectif, invectiva, invektiv, invictive. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "invective" (pronounced i'nve"ktiv) |
| 5 | -e" k t i v | affective, collective, connective, corrective, defective, detective, directive, effective, elective, ineffective, infective, introspective, irrespective, objective, perspective, projective, prospective, protective, reflective, respective, retrospective, selective, subjective. |
| 4 | -k t i v | active, addictive, adjective, attractive, conductive, constructive, counterproductive, destructive, distinctive, hyperactive, inactive, injunctive, instinctive, instructive, interactive, nonproductive, obstructive, octave, overactive, photoconductive, predictive, proactive, productive, radioactive, reactive, reconstructive, refractive, reproductive, restrictive, retroactive, seductive, superconductive, unattractive, unproductive, vindictive. |
| 3 | -t i v | accommodative, abortive, accumulative, accusative, acquisitive, adaptive, additive, administrative, adoptive, affirmative, alliterative, alternative, anticompetitive, appointive, appreciative, argumentative, assaultive, assertive, attentive, authoritative, automotive, captive, causative, cognitive, collaborative, combative, commemorative, communicative, comparative, competitive, congestive, consecutive, conservative, consultative, contemplative, contraceptive, cooperative, corruptive, creative, cumulative, curative, deceptive, decorative, definitive, degenerative, deliberative, demonstrative, derivative, descriptive, digestive, dilutive, diminutive, disincentive, disparages, dispositive, disruptive, dissipative, distributive, duplicative, elucidative, eruptive, evocative, executive, exhaustive, expletive, exploitative, exploitive, facultative, Federative, festive, figurative, fixative, formative, fugitive, furtive, generative, hypersensitive, illustrative, imaginative, imitative, imperative, inattentive, incentive, indicative, infinitive, informative, initiative, innovative, inoperative, inquisitive, insensitive, interpretive, intuitive, inventive, investigative, iterative, laxative, legislative, locomotive, lucrative, manipulative, meditative, motive, narrative, native, negative, neoconservative, nonautomotive, noncompetitive, noncumulative, nonexecutive, nonnative, normative, nutritive, operative, palliative, participative, pejorative, perceptive, plaintive, positive, preemptive, prerogative, preservative, presumptive, preventative, preventive, primitive, probative, prognosticative, prohibitive, provocative, punitive, putative, qualitative, quantitative, receptive, recuperative, redemptive, redistributive, regulative, rehabilitative, relative, remunerative, rep, repetitive, representative, restive, restorative, secretive, sedative, sensitive, speculative, stimulative, substantive, suggestive, superlative, supportive, talkative, tentative, ultraconservative, uncompetitive, uncooperative, unimaginative, uninformative, unreceptive, unrepresentative, vegetative, vituperative. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-e-i-i-n-t-v-v" | |
-1 letter: evincive. | |
-2 letters: invitee. | |
-3 letters: entice, evince, incite, invite. | |
-4 letters: civet, civie, event, evict, evite, niece, nieve, vinic. | |
-5 letters: cent, cete, cine, cite, etic, even, inti, neve, nevi, nice, nite, teen, tine, vein, vent, vice, vine, vive. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-e-i-i-n-t-v-v" | |
+1 letter: invectives. | |
+2 letters: invectively, reviviscent. | |
+4 letters: invectiveness. | |
+5 letters: vindictiveness. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Fiction 6. Quotations: Non-fiction 7. Usage Frequency 8. Expressions | 9. Expressions: Internet 10. Translations: Modern 11. Translations: Ancient 12. Derivations | 13. Rhymes 14. Anagrams 15. Bibliography |
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