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Definition: Vituperative |
VituperativeAdjective1. Marked by harshly abusive criticism; "his scathing remarks about silly lady novelists"; "her vituperative railing". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "vituperative" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1832. (references) |
Synonym: VituperativeSynonym: scathing (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Disapprobation | Disparaging, condemnatory, damnatory, denunciatory, reproachful, abusive, objurgatory, clamorous, vituperative; defamatory. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Vituperative |
| English words defined with "vituperative": scathing, slang. (references) |
| "Vituperative" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Vituperative" is used about 21 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) | 100% | 21 | 76,261 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "vituperative"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | qortues (admonitory, objurgatory, reproach, reproachful), poshtërues (derogatory, galling, humiliating, ignominious), fyes (abusive, insulting, offender, offensive, outrageous). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | ذمى. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | ругателен (injurious, invasive, maledictory, railing), хулителен. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | hanlivý (abusive, defamatory, libellous, opprobrious). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | vitupératif. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | schmähend (abusing, opprobrious, vilifying). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | υβριστικόσ (abusive, derogatory, insulting, invective, obloquious, opprobrious), ονειδιστικόσ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | sértegetõ (abusive). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | oltooanagh (abuser, abusive, censurer, disgraceful, reproachable, reproacher, reproaching, slanderer, vilifier), floutagh (abusive, aspersive, distainful, flippant, lewdly jocular, mock, reproachful, scornful, scurrilous, slanderous, taunting). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ituperativevay vituperativo, insultuoso (insolent), injurioso (contumelious, injurious, inveigh, liber, offensive, opprobrious, outrageous, unparliamentary). (various references) injurios (abusing, injurious, insulting, reproachful, scurrilous). (various references) бранный (expletive). (various references) sklon grdnji, prekoran (inculpatory, objurgatory). (various references) smädande (vituperation), skymfande. (various references) küfürbaz (abusive, blackguard, foul-mouthed, foul-spoken, obscene talker, scurrilous, swearer, swearing), azarlayıcı (upbraiding), ağzı bozuk (abusive, blackguardly, foul-mouthed, foul-spoken, ribald, scurrilous). (various references) chửi rủa (imprecatingly, imprecatory, maledictive, maledictory), bỉ báng. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "vituperative": vituperatively. (additional references) | |
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"Vituperative" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: vitiperative, vituberative, vituparative, vituperaltive, vituperitive, vituperlative. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "vituperative" (pronounced vī'tuw"perutiv or vutuw"perutiv) |
| 7 | -uw" p er u t i v | recuperative. |
| 6 | -p er u t i v | inoperative, operative, uncooperative. |
| 5 | -er u t i v | alliterative, degenerative, Federative, figurative, generative, remunerative. |
| 4 | -u t i v | accusative, acquisitive, additive, affirmative, alternative, anticompetitive, argumentative, causative, cognitive, commemorative, communicative, comparative, competitive, consecutive, conservative, consultative, contemplative, cumulative, curative, decorative, definitive, demonstrative, derivative, diminutive, dispositive, duplicative, evocative, executive, expletive, exploitative, fixative, formative, fugitive, hypersensitive, illustrative, imaginative, imperative, indicative, infinitive, informative, initiative, inquisitive, insensitive, interpretive, intuitive, laxative, lucrative, narrative, negative, neoconservative, noncompetitive, noncumulative, nonexecutive, normative, nutritive, palliative, participative, pejorative, positive, prerogative, preservative, preventative, primitive, prohibitive, provocative, punitive, putative, relative, rep, repetitive, representative, restorative, secretive, sedative, sensitive, speculative, superlative, talkative, tentative, ultraconservative, uncompetitive, unimaginative, uninformative, unrepresentative. |
| 3 | -t i v | abortive, accommodative, accumulative, active, adaptive, addictive, adjective, administrative, adoptive, affective, appointive, appreciative, assaultive, assertive, attentive, attractive, authoritative, automotive, captive, collaborative, collective, combative, conductive, congestive, connective, constructive, contraceptive, cooperative, corrective, corruptive, counterproductive, creative, deceptive, defective, deliberative, descriptive, destructive, detective, digestive, dilutive, directive, disincentive, disparages, disruptive, dissipative, distinctive, distributive, effective, elective, elucidative, eruptive, exhaustive, exploitive, facultative, festive, furtive, hyperactive, imitative, inactive, inattentive, incentive, ineffective, infective, injunctive, innovative, instinctive, instructive, interactive, introspective, invective, inventive, investigative, irrespective, iterative, legislative, locomotive, manipulative, meditative, motive, native, nonautomotive, nonnative, nonproductive, objective, obstructive, octave, overactive, perceptive, perspective, photoconductive, plaintive, predictive, preemptive, presumptive, preventive, proactive, probative, productive, prognosticative, projective, prospective, protective, qualitative, quantitative, radioactive, reactive, receptive, reconstructive, redemptive, redistributive, reflective, refractive, regulative, rehabilitative, reproductive, respective, restive, restrictive, retroactive, retrospective, seductive, selective, stimulative, subjective, substantive, suggestive, superconductive, supportive, unattractive, unproductive, unreceptive, vegetative, vindictive. |
| 7 | -uw" p er u t i v | recuperative. |
| 6 | -p er u t i v | inoperative, operative, uncooperative. |
| 5 | -er u t i v | alliterative, degenerative, Federative, figurative, generative, remunerative. |
| 4 | -u t i v | accusative, acquisitive, additive, affirmative, alternative, anticompetitive, argumentative, causative, cognitive, commemorative, communicative, comparative, competitive, consecutive, conservative, consultative, contemplative, cumulative, curative, decorative, definitive, demonstrative, derivative, diminutive, dispositive, duplicative, evocative, executive, expletive, exploitative, fixative, formative, fugitive, hypersensitive, illustrative, imaginative, imperative, indicative, infinitive, informative, initiative, inquisitive, insensitive, interpretive, intuitive, laxative, lucrative, narrative, negative, neoconservative, noncompetitive, noncumulative, nonexecutive, normative, nutritive, palliative, participative, pejorative, positive, prerogative, preservative, preventative, primitive, prohibitive, provocative, punitive, putative, relative, rep, repetitive, representative, restorative, secretive, sedative, sensitive, speculative, superlative, talkative, tentative, ultraconservative, uncompetitive, unimaginative, uninformative, unrepresentative. |
| 3 | -t i v | abortive, accommodative, accumulative, active, adaptive, addictive, adjective, administrative, adoptive, affective, appointive, appreciative, assaultive, assertive, attentive, attractive, authoritative, automotive, captive, collaborative, collective, combative, conductive, congestive, connective, constructive, contraceptive, cooperative, corrective, corruptive, counterproductive, creative, deceptive, defective, deliberative, descriptive, destructive, detective, digestive, dilutive, directive, disincentive, disparages, disruptive, dissipative, distinctive, distributive, effective, elective, elucidative, eruptive, exhaustive, exploitive, facultative, festive, furtive, hyperactive, imitative, inactive, inattentive, incentive, ineffective, infective, injunctive, innovative, instinctive, instructive, interactive, introspective, invective, inventive, investigative, irrespective, iterative, legislative, locomotive, manipulative, meditative, motive, native, nonautomotive, nonnative, nonproductive, objective, obstructive, octave, overactive, perceptive, perspective, photoconductive, plaintive, predictive, preemptive, presumptive, preventive, proactive, probative, productive, prognosticative, projective, prospective, protective, qualitative, quantitative, radioactive, reactive, receptive, reconstructive, redemptive, redistributive, reflective, refractive, regulative, rehabilitative, reproductive, respective, restive, restrictive, retroactive, retrospective, seductive, selective, stimulative, subjective, substantive, suggestive, superconductive, supportive, unattractive, unproductive, unreceptive, vegetative, vindictive. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-i-i-p-r-t-t-u-v-v" | |
-2 letters: vituperate. | |
-3 letters: iterative, partitive, privative. | |
-4 letters: eruptive, putative, vetivert. | |
-5 letters: ariette, iterate, partite, peatier, pettier, private, puttier, vetiver, vitiate. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-i-i-p-r-t-t-u-v-v" | |
+2 letters: vituperatively. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)56 69 74 75 70 65 72 61 74 69 76 65 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010110 01101001 01110100 01110101 01110000 01100101 01110010 01100001 01110100 01101001 01110110 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)V i t u p e r a t i v e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0056 0069 0074 0075 0070 0065 0072 0061 0074 0069 0076 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)567586878271846786758871 |
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