Vituperation

Definition: Vituperation

Vituperation

Noun

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

Date "vituperation" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1822. (references)

Etymology: Vituperation \Vi*tu`per*a"tion\, noun. [Latin expression vituperatio: compare to Old French expression vituperation. See Vituperate.]. (Websters 1913)

Domain	Definitions
Satire	VITUPERATION, n. Saite, as understood by dunces and all such as suffer from an impediment in their wit. Source: Devil's Dictionary.
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Synonyms: Vituperation

Synonyms: invective (n), vitriol (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Disapprobation	Chiding, upbraiding;Verb: exprobation, abuse, vituperation, invective, objurgation, contumely; hard words, cutting words, bitter words.
Malediction	Noun: malediction, malison, curse, imprecation, denunciation, execration, anathema, ban, proscription, excommunication, commination, thunders of the Vatican, fulmination, maranatha; aspersion, disparagement, vilification, vituperation.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Vituperation

English words defined with "vituperation": Vituperable, Vituperrious. (references)

Specialty definitions using "vituperation": Vituperation. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	The Three Estates: A Pleasant Satire in Commendation of Virtue and in Vituperation of Vice (reference) (more book examples)
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"Vituperation" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Vituperation" is used about 15 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)	100%	15	90,616

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.

Language		Translations for "vituperation"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		sharje (abuse, animadversion, bad language, chastisement, curse, damn, dispraise, dressing down, embroilment, invective, lashing, mudslinging, oath, obscenities, quarrel, scolding, swear word, swearing, talking to, wigging), poshtërim (abasement, abjection, humiliation, ignominy, letdown), mallkim (anathema, ban, blight, curse, cuss, damn, damnation, imprecation, perdition, swearing, tarnation), fyerje (affront, contumely, displeasure, flout, grievance, indignity, injury, insult, offence, opprobrium, resentment, umbrage). (various references)

Arabic		‏قدح (dispraise, glass, goblet, invective, libel, percuss, slander, slur, snap, tumbler, vituperate), ‏توبيخ قاس (earful, hell), ‏ذم (asperse, blacken, blackguard, disparage, disparagement, dispraise, invective, slur, vilify, vituperate). (various references)

Bulgarian		ругаене, хулене (vilification), хокане (dressing down, rowing, scolding, wigging), злословене (scandal, vilification). (various references)

Czech		tupení. (various references)

Farsi		ناسزاگوءی (Invective, Obloquy), توهین (Insolence, Insult, Libel, Offense), توبیخ (Rail, Reproach, Snuff), سرزنش (Blame, Censure, Demerit, Obloquy, Rail, Remonstrance, Reproach, Reproof, Sarcasm, Snub, Twit), بدگوءی (Defamation, Denunciation, Gossip, Obloquy, Vilification). (various references)

French		vitupération. (various references)

German		Beschimpfung (abusing, brickbat, insult, invective, invectiveness, name calling, obloquy, slander, swearing). (various references)

Greek		ύβρισ (abuse, affront, contumely, indignity, insult, invective, opprobrium), βρισιά (abuse, insult). (various references)

Hebrew		�'�"וף (abuse, blasphemy, curse, insult, invective, obloquy, profanity, revilement, scorn, swearword, vilification). (various references)

Hungarian		szidás (comeuppance, dressing down, kick in the pants, rating, scold, scolding, strafe, wig), sértegetés. (various references)

Italian		vituperazione. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		罵詈雑言 (vilification). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ばりぞう�"�" (vilification). (various references)

Manx		oltooan (abuse, disgrace, reproach, slur), flout (affront, aspersion, gibe, invective, rebuff, rebuttal, reproach, scorn, slander, snub, stigma, taunt). (various references)

Pig Latin		ituperationvay

Portuguese		vituperação, vitupério, insulto (abuse, affront, contumely, indignity, injury, insult, lash, scurrility, taunt), injúria (abuse, bruise, contumely, despite, harm, hurt, indignity, injury, insult, invective, mischief, outrage, railing, violence, wrong). (various references)

Russian		брань (blackguardism, language, lashing, profanity, scolding, warm language, wigging), поношение (defamation, denegration, obloquy, vilification). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		grdnja (dressing down, gird, ragging, scolding, telling off), grđenje (objurgation). (various references)

Spanish		vituperio. (various references)

Swedish		smädelse (abuse, aspersion, invective, obloquy, opprobrium), smädande (vituperative), skymford (insulting word, invective). (various references)

Turkish		küfretme (curse, swearing), fırça atma (lashing, ribbing), azarlama (blast, castigation, dressing down, lash, rap, rating, rebuke, reprimand, ribbing, scolding, strafing, upbraiding, wigging). (various references)

Ukranian		ганьблення (aspersion, vilification, vitiation), лайка (abuse, altercation, barge, chevrette, curse, damn, dog-skin, hassle, kid-skin, oath, ordure, scold, swear word). (various references)

Vietnamese		sự chửi rủa (abuse, damnation, damning, imprecation, name-calling, railing), sự bỉ báng. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "vituperation": vituperations. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Vituperation" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: vituperatian. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "vituperation" (pronounced 'Vi*tu`per*a"tion'): Abacination, Abaction, Abalienation, Abarticulation, Abbreviation, Abdication, Abduction, Aberration, Abevacuation, Abirritation, Abjection, Abjudication, Abjuration, Ablactation, Ablaqueation, Ablation, Ablegation, Abligurition, Abnegation, Abnodation, Abolition, Abomination, Abortion, Abreaction, Abrenunciation, Abreption, Abrogation, Abruption, Absentation, Absolution, Absorbition, Absorption, Abstention, Abstraction, Absumption, Accentuation, Acceptation, Acceptilation, Acception, Acclimatation, Acclimation, Acclimatization, Accombination, Accommodation, Accreditation, Accrementition, Accretion, Accubation, Accusation, Acervation. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-i-i-n-o-p-r-t-t-u-v"
	-2 letters: reputation.
	-3 letters: iteration, novitiate, nutritive, partition, partitive, portative, privation, vaporetti.
	-4 letters: antiriot, atropine, eruption, optative, outpaint, paintier, patentor, petition, pointier, printout, punitive, putative, rotative, trapunto, triptane, uintaite, vitiator.
	-5 letters: antipot, atropin, epinaoi, inertia, intreat, introit, inviter, iterant, nattier, nitrate, nitrite, nittier, nuttier, operant, opuntia, outearn, outrate, outrave, overapt, overtip, painter, partite, parvenu, patient, patriot.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-i-i-n-o-p-r-t-t-u-v"
	+1 letter: vituperations.
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