'Vituperative' definitions:
Definition of 'vituperative'
From: WordNet
adjective
Marked by harshly abusive criticism; "his scathing remarks about silly lady novelists"; "her vituperative railing" [syn: scathing, vituperative]
Definition of 'Vituperative'
From: GCIDE
- Vituperative \Vi*tu"per*a*tive\, a. Uttering or writing censure; containing, or characterized by, abuse; scolding; abusive. -- {Vi*tu"per*a*tive*ly}, adv. [1913 Webster]
- Vituperative appellations derived from their real or supposed ill qualities. --B. Jonson. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'vituperative'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abusive,
- acid,
- belittling,
- biting,
- blackening,
- blameful,
- blasphemous,
- calumniatory,
- calumnious,
- castigatory,
- censorious,
- comminatory,
- condemnatory,
- contemptuous,
- contumelious,
- critical,
- cursing,
- damnatory,
- damning,
- defamatory,
- denunciatory,
- deprecative,
- deprecatory,
- depreciative,
- depreciatory,
- derisive,
- derogatory,
- detractory,
- dirty,
- disparaging,
- dysphemistic,
- epithetic,
- excommunicative,
- excommunicatory,
- execrating,
- execrative,
- execratory,
- foul,
- fulminatory,
- harsh,
- imprecatory,
- insulting,
- invective,
- inveighing,
- judgmental,
- maledictory,
- malign,
- objurgatory,
- obscene,
- opprobrious,
- priggish,
- profane,
- Rabelaisian,
- railing,
- raw,
- reproachful,
- reprobative,
- reviling,
- ribald,
- ridiculing,
- risque,
- sarcastic,
- sardonic,
- scatologic,
- scoffing,
- scolding,
- scornful,
- scurrile,
- scurrilous,
- severe,
- slanderous,
- truculent,
- vile,
- vilifying,
- withering