Word Meanings - INVECTIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Characterized by invection; critical; denunciatory; satirical; abusive; railing.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of INVECTIVE)

• Abuse
• Mistreatment
• invective
• ill-treatment
• opprobrium
• scurrility
• vituperation
• ribaldry
• obloquy
• reproach
• insolence
• misusage
• ill-usage
• Satire
• Invective
• sarcasm
• burlesque
• lampoon
• pasquinade
• irony
• ridicule
• Satirical
• Cutting
• poignant sarcastic
• bitter
• ironical

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of INVECTIVE)

• Laud
• praise
• approve
• commend

Related words: (words related to INVECTIVE)

• COMMENDATOR
  One who holds a benefice in commendam; a commendatary. Chalmers.
• SARCASM
  A keen, reproachful expression; a satirical remark uttered with some degree of scorn or contempt; a taunt; a gibe; a cutting jest. The sarcasms of those critics who imagine our art to be a matter of inspiration. Sir J. Reynolds. Syn. -- Satire;
• PASQUINADE
  A lampoon or satirical writing. Macaulay.
• REPROACHER
  One who reproaches.
• BITTERWEED
  A species of Ambrosia ; Roman worm wood. Gray.
• APPROVEDLY
  So as to secure approbation; in an approved manner.
• COMMENDER
  One who commends or praises.
• PRAISEWORTHINESS
  The quality or state of being praiseworthy.
• OPPROBRIUM
  Disgrace; infamy; reproach mingled with contempt; abusive language. Being both dramatic author and dramatic performer, he found himself heir to a twofold opprobrium. De Quincey.
• BITTERS
  A liquor, generally spirituous in which a bitter herb, leaf, or root is steeped.
• RIDICULER
  One who ridicules.
• CUTTHROAT
  One who cuts throats; a murderer; an assassin.
• LAMPOONER
  The writer of a lampoon. "Libelers, lampooners, and pamphleteers." Tatler.
• POIGNANTLY
  In a poignant manner.
• PRAISER
  1. One who praises. "Praisers of men." Sir P. Sidney. 2. An appraiser; a valuator. Sir T. North.
• INVECTIVE
  Characterized by invection; critical; denunciatory; satirical; abusive; railing.
• SARCASMOUS
  Sarcastic. "Sarcasmous scandal." Hubidras.
• CUTTY
  Short; as, a cutty knife; a cutty sark.
• BITTERBUMP
  the butterbump or bittern.
• COMMENDATARY
  One who holds a living in commendam.
• APPRAISER
  One who appraises; esp., a person appointed and sworn to estimate and fix the value of goods or estates.
• IMBITTER
  To make bitter; hence, to make distressing or more distressing; to make sad, morose, sour, or malignant. Is there anything that more imbitters the enjoyment of this life than shame South. Imbittered against each other by former contests. Bancroft.
• DISAPPROVE
  1. To pass unfavorable judgment upon; to condemn by an act of the judgment; to regard as wrong, unsuitable, or inexpedient; to censure; as, to disapprove the conduct of others. 2. To refuse official approbation to; to disallow; to decline
• STRAW-CUTTER
  An instrument to cut straw for fodder.
• SWARD-CUTTER
  A plow for turning up grass land. A lawn mower.
• SCUTTLE
  both fr. L. scutella, dim. of scutra, scuta, a dish or platter; cf. 1. A broad, shallow basket. 2. A wide-mouthed vessel for holding coal: a coal hod.