epithet

Speech parts

1. epithet - Noun

2. epithet - Verb

Meaning

An adjective expressing some quality, attribute, or relation, that is properly or specially appropriate to a person or thing; as, a just man; a verdant lawn.

Term; expression; phrase.

To describe by an epithet.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

name title label nickname designation tag characterization appellation moniker cognomen sobriquet byname term style oath
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Antonyms

break ownership possession praise neglect substantive
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Hypernyms

picture depiction characterization defamation delineation calumny

Hyponyms

smear word

Phrases with the word

Homeric epithet ebenezer scrooge epithet christian epithet transferred epithet

Examples

Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness. Mary Wollstonecraft

Blasphemy is an epithet bestowed by superstition upon common sense. Robert G. Ingersoll

The dismissal of our anger as a racial minority is worse than any slur or epithet because it undermines our ability to react to it. Margaret Cho

Please to blot out gentle hearted, and substitute drunken dog, ragged head, seld-shaven, odd-ey'd, stuttering, or any other epithet which truly and properly belongs to the Gentleman in question. Charles Lamb

They call me a renegade. The epithet is inaccurate and undeserved. I cannot be faithless to a cause which I never have endorsed. Indeed, I am absolutely faithful to the only cause I espouse, which is my own welfare. I take pride in this unswerving loyalty! Jack Vance

Out of his surname they have coined an epithet for a knave, and out of his Christian name a synonym for the Devil. Thomas Babington Macaulay

Close letter words and terms

epitheory epithermal epithesis epitheted epithetic epithetical