Word Meanings - VITUPERATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of vituperating; abuse; severe censure; blame. When a man becomes untractable and inaccessible by fierceness and pride, then vituperation comes upon him. Donne.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of VITUPERATION)

• Abuse
• Mistreatment
• invective
• ill-treatment
• opprobrium
• scurrility
• vituperation
• ribaldry
• obloquy
• reproach
• insolence
• misusage
• ill-usage
• Invective
• Obloquy
• denunciation
• castigation
• reprobation
• abuse
• railing
• sarcasm
• satire
• diatribe

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of VITUPERATION)

• Laud
• praise
• approve
• commend

Related words: (words related to VITUPERATION)

• 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;
• REPROACHER
  One who reproaches.
• APPROVEDLY
  So as to secure approbation; in an approved manner.
• RAIL
  An outer cloak or covering; a neckerchief for women. Fairholt.
• 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.
• DIATRIBE
  A prolonged or exhaustive discussion; especially, an acrimonious or invective harangue; a strain of abusive or railing language; a philippic. The ephemeral diatribe of a faction. John Morley.
• 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.
• REPROBATIONER
  One who believes in reprobation. See Reprobation,2. South.
• COMMENDATARY
  One who holds a living in commendam.
• APPROVEMENT
  a confession of guilt by a prisoner charged with treason or felony, together with an accusation of his accomplish and a giving evidence against them in order to obtain his own pardon. The term is no longer in use; it corresponded to what is now
• RIBALDRY
  The talk of a ribald; low, vulgar language; indecency; obscenity; lewdness; -- now chiefly applied to indecent language, but formerly, as by Chaucer, also to indecent acts or conduct. The ribaldry of his conversation moved Macaulay.
• APPROVE
  approve, fr. L. approbare; ad + probare to esteem as good, approve, 1. To show to be real or true; to prove. Wouldst thou approve thy constancy Approve First thy obedience. Milton. 2. To make proof of; to demonstrate; to prove or show practically.
• SATIRE
  a dish filled with various kinds of fruits, food composed of various ingredients, a mixture, a medley, fr. satur full of food, sated, fr. sat, satis, enough: cf. F. satire. See Sate, Sad, a., and 1. A composition, generally poetical, holding up
• COMMENDATION
  A message of affection or respect; compliments; greeting. Hark you, Margaret; No princely commendations to my king Shak. (more info) 1. The act of commending; praise; favorable representation in words; recommendation. Need we . . . epistles of
• RAILING
  Expressing reproach; insulting. Angels which are greater in power and might, bring not railing accusation against them. 2 Pet. ii. 11.
• APPRAISER
  One who appraises; esp., a person appointed and sworn to estimate and fix the value of goods or estates.
• FRAILNESS
  Frailty.
• FRAIL
  A basket made of rushes, used chiefly for containing figs and raisins. 2. The quantity of raisins -- about thirty-two, fifty-six, or seventy-five pounds, -- contained in a frail. 3. A rush for weaving baskets. Johnson.
• 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
• TAFFRAIL
  The upper part of a ship's stern, which is flat like a table on the top, and sometimes ornamented with carved work; the rail around a ship's stern.
• FRAILTY
  1. The condition quality of being frail, physically, mentally, or morally, frailness; infirmity; weakness of resolution; liableness to be deceived or seduced. God knows our frailty, pities our weakness. Locke. 2. A fault proceeding from weakness;
• DRAIL
  To trail; to draggle. South.
• SHIP RAILWAY
  An inclined railway running into the water with a cradelike car on which a vessel may be drawn out on land, as for repairs. A railway on which to transport vessels overland between bodies of water.