Vitriol

Definitions: Vitriol

Vitriol

Noun

1. (H2SO4) a highly corrosive acid made from sulfur dioxide; widely used in the chemical industry.

2. The expression of bitter deep-seated ill will; rancor.

Date "vitriol" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Domain	Definitions
Dream Interpretation	If you see vitriol in your dreams, it is a token of some innocent person being censured by you. To throw it on people, shows you will bear malice towards parties who seek to favor you. For a young woman to have a jealous rival throw it in her face, foretells that she will be the innocent object of some person's hatred. This dream for a business man, denotes enemies and much persecution. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted ....
Mining	A sulfate of any of various metals (such as copper, iron, or zinc,); esp. a hydrate (as the heptahydrate) of such a sulfate having a glassyappearance or luster. (references)
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Synonyms: Vitriol

Synonyms: invective (n), oil of vitriol (n), sulfuric acid (n), sulphuric acid (n), vituperation (n). (additional references)

Crosswords: Vitriol

English words defined with "vitriol": Atramentarious ♦ Blue jack, Blue vitriol ♦ Copperas, Cyanosite ♦ Green vitriol ♦ Inkstone ♦ Melanterite ♦ Oil of vitriol ♦ Red vitriol ♦ Sal Martis, Sal vitrioli, Salt of colcothar, Salt of Venus, Sory, Spirit of vitriol ♦ Vitriol of Mars, Vitriolate, Vitriolated, Vitriolizable, Vitriolize ♦ Water of crystallization, white vitriol ♦ Zinc vitriol. (references)

Specialty definitions using "vitriol": copper vitriol ♦ green copperas ♦ iron vitriol ♦ lead vitriol ♦ nickel vitriol ♦ red iron vitriol, rose vitriol ♦ Vitriol, vitriol oche ♦ Washoe process. (references)

Etymologies containing "vitriol": Chalcanthite. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Vitriol" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Czech (vitriol), French (vitriol), German (vitriol), Hungarian (vitriol), Manx (vitriol), Romanian (vitriol), Serbo-Croatian (vitriol), Swedish (vitriol).

Domain	Title
Books	Blue Vitriol (reference) Valentines & vitriol (reference) (more book examples)

Music	Barathrum Vitriol (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
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Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Cattle being tested with blue vitriol solution for hoof rot, Cruzen Ranch, Valley County, Idaho.Credit: Library of Congress.
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Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	An odour of vitriol ascended in puffs from the roofs of a neighbouring factory.
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Economic History	Ukraine	Currently only seven types of plant protection substances are produced by local plants, including polycarbapine, polychome, copper vitriol, sulfur-bearing substances, copper oxychloride, bromine methyl, and dinitro-o-cresol. (references)
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"Vitriol" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 91.67% of the time. "Vitriol" is used about 24 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
Noun (singular)	91.67%	22	74,468
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	8.33%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	24	N/A

Expressions using "vitriol": blue vitriol ♦ copper vitriol ♦ Green vitriol ♦ oil of vitriol ♦ red vitriol ♦ spirit of vitriol ♦ vitriol of Mars ♦ vitriol of zinc ♦ white vitriol ♦ zinc vitriol. Additional references.
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Language		Translations for "vitriol"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		sulfat (sulphate, vitriolic), sarkazëm (caustic, sarcasm), acid sulfurik. (various references)

Arabic		‏نقد لاذع (knock, stricture), ‏الزاج حامض كبريتي. (various references)

Bulgarian		сярна киселина, язвителност (acerbity, acidity, acrimony, bitterness, incision, mordacity, pungency, sting), витриол. (various references)

Chinese		矾. (various references)

Czech		vitriol, skalice. (various references)

Danish		kobbervitriol (blue stone ( CUSO4 5H20 ), blue vitriol, bluestone, chalcanthite, copper sulphate, copper vitriol, cyanosite), ferrosulfat (ferrous sulphate, green vitriol), blå vitriol (blue vitriol, bluestone, chalcanthite, copper vitriol, cyanosite). (various references)

Dutch		kopervitriool (blue stone ( CUSO4 5H20 ), blue vitriol, bluestone, chalcanthite, copper sulphate, copper vitriol, cyanosite), kopersulfaat (blue stone ( CUSO4 5H20 ), blue vitriol, bluestone, chalcanthite, copper sulphate, copper sulphide, copper vitriol, cyanosite), ijzervitriool (ferrous sulphate, green vitriol), ijzer-II-sulfaat (ferrous sulphate, green vitriol), ferrosulfaat (ferrous sulphate, green vitriol). (various references)

Finnish		vihtrilli. (various references)

French		vitrioler (vitriolize), vitriol. (various references)

German		Vitriol. (various references)

Greek		βιτριόλι (sulphuric acid), θειικό οξύ (chamber acid, E513, sulfuric acid, sulphuric acid). (various references)

Hebrew		ויטריול, ק� ק� תום (verdigris). (various references)

Hungarian		vitriol. (various references)

Italian		vetriolo (vitriolic). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		�"礬 (white vitriol, zinc sulfate heptahydrate). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		�"うば�" (knocked out, leave the mound, police box, steel plate, steel sheet, white vitriol, zinc sulfate heptahydrate). (various references)

Manx		vitriol, glessid. (various references)

Pig Latin		itriolvay

Portuguese		vitríolo, acrimônia (acerbity, acrimony, acuity, poignancy, pungency, sharpness). (various references)

Romanian		vitriol, criticã vehementã. (various references)

Russian		купорос (vitro). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		vitriol. (various references)

Spanish		vitriolo, hostilidad (adverse attitude, antipathy, hostility, ill feeling, needle). (various references)

Swedish		vitriol, galla (bile, choler, gall, salt, salt water), bitterhet (acerbity, acridity, acrimony, bitterness, embitterment, gall, jaundice). (various references)

Turkish		vitriyol (vitriolic), kezzap (aqua fortis, caustic, nitric acid), acı eleştiri, çok acı söz. (various references)

Ukranian		купорос. (various references)

Vietnamese		lời nói cay độc. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	vitreus. (various references)
Late Latin	300-700	vitreolus. (various references)
Medieval Latin	700-1500	vitriolum. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "vitriol": vitrioled, vitriolic, vitrioling, vitriolled, vitriolling, vitriols. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Vitriol" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: variola, vertiol, virtiol, vitdriol, vitral, vitreol, vitrial, vitrio, vitriole, vitrol, vittrio, viyriol. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "vitriol" (pronounced vi"trēul)
5	-t r ē u l	endometrial, extraterrestrial, industrial, terrestrial.
4	-r ē u l	actuarial, adversarial, advertorial, aerial, ambassadorial, antibacterial, arboreal, Ariel, arterial, bacterial, biomaterial, burial, cereal, conspiratorial, curatorial, dictatorial, directorial, editorial, equatorial, ethereal, extraterritorial, gubernatorial, immaterial, immemorial, imperial, janitorial, magisterial, malarial, managerial, material, memorial, mercurial, ministerial, nomenclatorial, pictorial, professorial, prosecutorial, raptorial, reportorial, sartorial, secretarial, senatorial, serial, territorial, tutorial, venereal.
3	-ē u l	adverbial, alluvial, biaxial, bicentennial, biennial, binomial, bronchial, centennial, ceremonial, coaxial, collegial, colloquial, colonial, convivial, custodial, decennial, entrepreneurial, filial, fluvial, intracranial, jovial, laryngeal, lineal, marsupial, matrilineal, matrimonial, medial, menial, microbial, millennial, myocardial, parochial, patrilineal, perennial, pluvial, polynomial, primordial, proverbial, pseudopodial, quadrennial, radial, remedial, testimonial, tracheal, triennial, trivial, vestigial.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "i-i-l-o-r-t-v"
	-2 letters: lirot, torii, triol, volti.
	-3 letters: liri, loti, riot, roil, roti, rotl, tirl, tiro, toil, tori, trio, viol, virl, volt.
	-4 letters: lit, lot, oil, ort, rot, til, tor.
	-5 letters: it, li, lo, or, ti, to.
	Words containing the letters "i-i-l-o-r-t-v"
	+1 letter: vitriols.
	+2 letters: frivolity, vitrioled, vitriolic.
	+3 letters: nontrivial, proclivity, virologist, vitrioling, vitriolled.
	+4 letters: frivolities, invalidator, inventorial, invigilator, meliorative, outrivaling, overtoiling, overutilize, silverpoint, variational, vibrational, virologists, vitriolling.
	+5 letters: ameliorative, derivational, interinvolve, intervocalic, invalidators, invigilators, obliterative, outrivalling, overcritical, overexplicit, overlighting, overutilized, overutilizes, proclivities, providential, removability, revalidation, silverpoints, valorization, velarization, victoriously, visitatorial.
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