calumnious

Questions about calumnious

What does calumnious mean?

calumnious means "(used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign".

How many syllables are in calumnious?

calumnious has 4 syllables: ca-lum-ni-ous. The stress falls on "ni".

What is another word for calumnious?

Close synonyms include calumniatory, defamatory, denigrative, denigrating, denigratory. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is calumnious a common word?

calumnious is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.