Words Like EPITHET

We have put together a list of words that are similar to EPITHET.

11 Alternative Words Similar to epithet

1 Name Noun      Synonym Words Like Name
2 Calumniation Noun      Synonym Words Like Calumniation
3 Calumny Noun      Synonym Words Like Calumny
4 Characterization Noun      Synonym Words Like Characterization
5 Defamation Noun      Synonym Words Like Defamation
6 Obloquy Noun      Synonym Words Like Obloquy
7 Picture Noun      Synonym Words Like Picture
8 Traducement Noun      Synonym Words Like Traducement
9 Term Noun      Synonym Words Like Term
10 Expression Noun      Synonym Words Like Expression
11 Phrase Noun      Synonym Words Like Phrase

1 examples of epithet

1 a just man; a verdant lawn

10 definitions of epithet

1 An adjective expressing some quality, attribute, or relation, that is properly or specially appropriate to a person or thing.
2 Term; expression; phrase.
3 To describe by an epithet.
4 a defamatory or abusive word or phrase
5 descriptive word or phrase
6 A term used to characterize a person or thing, such as rosy-fingered in rosy-fingered dawn or the Great in Catherine the Great.
7 A term used as a descriptive substitute for the name or title of a person, such as The Great Emancipator for Abraham Lincoln.
8 An abusive or contemptuous word or phrase.
9 Biology A word in the scientific name of an animal or plant following the name of the genus and denoting a species, variety, or other division of the genus, as sativa in Lactuca sativa.
10 An adjective, or a word or phrase used as an adjective, expressing some real quality of the person or thing to which it is applied, or attributing some quality or character to the person or thing: as, a benevolent or a hard-hearted man; a scandalous exhibition; sphinx-like mystery; a Fabian policy.
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