defame

Questions about defame

What is another word for defame?

It depends which defame you mean. In the sense “charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone”, the synonyms are slander, smirch, asperse, denigrate, calumniate, smear, sully, besmirch. Across all 1 sense there are 8 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of defame?

WordNet records no antonym for defame. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for defame come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of defame

• Full entry for defameAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for defameWords matching from the last stressed vowel onward, grouped by syllable count.
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