'Invective' definitions:
Definition of 'invective'
From: WordNet
noun
Abusive or venomous language used to express blame or censure or bitter deep-seated ill will [syn: vituperation, invective, vitriol]
Definition of 'Invective'
From: GCIDE
- Invective \In*vec"tive\, a. [L. invectivus: cf. F. invectif. See Inveigh.] Characterized by invection; critical; denunciatory; satirical; abusive; railing. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Invective'
From: GCIDE
- Invective \In*vec"tive\, n. [F. invective.] An expression which inveighs or rails against a person; a severe or violent censure or reproach; something uttered or written, intended to cast opprobrium, censure, or reproach on another; a harsh or reproachful accusation; -- followed by against, having reference to the person or thing affected; as, an invective against tyranny. [1913 Webster]
- The world will be able to judge of his [Junius'] motives for writing such famous invectives. --Sir W. Draper.
- Syn: Abuse; censure; reproach; satire; sarcasm; railing; diatribe. See Abuse. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'invective'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abuse,
- abusive,
- address,
- after-dinner speech,
- allocution,
- assailing,
- assault,
- attack,
- berating,
- billingsgate,
- bitter words,
- blackening,
- blameful,
- calumny,
- causticity,
- censorious,
- chalk talk,
- condemnatory,
- contemptuous,
- contumelious,
- contumely,
- cynicism,
- damnatory,
- debate,
- declamation,
- denunciatory,
- deprecative,
- deprecatory,
- depreciative,
- derisive,
- diatribe,
- disparaging,
- eulogy,
- execrating,
- execration,
- execrative,
- execratory,
- exhortation,
- filibuster,
- forensic,
- forensic address,
- formal speech,
- funeral oration,
- harangue,
- hard words,
- hortatory address,
- inaugural,
- inaugural address,
- innuendo,
- inveighing,
- irony,
- jawing,
- jeremiad,
- judgmental,
- objurgatory,
- obloquy,
- onslaught,
- opprobrious,
- opprobrium,
- oration,
- pep talk,
- peroration,
- philippic,
- pitch,
- prepared speech,
- prepared text,
- priggish,
- public speech,
- rating,
- reading,
- recital,
- recitation,
- reproachful,
- reprobative,
- revilement,
- reviling,
- ridiculing,
- sales talk,
- salutatory,
- salutatory address,
- sarcasm,
- satire,
- satiric wit,
- say,
- scoffing,
- screed,
- scurrile,
- scurrility,
- scurrilous,
- set speech,
- speech,
- speechification,
- speeching,
- talk,
- talkathon,
- tirade,
- tongue-lashing,
- truculent,
- valediction,
- valedictory,
- valedictory address,
- vilification,
- vilifying,
- vituperation,
- vituperative