vituperate

Questions about vituperate

What does vituperate mean?

vituperate means "spread negative information about".

How many syllables are in vituperate?

vituperate has 4 syllables and divides as vi-tu-pe-rate under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for vituperate?

Close synonyms include vilify, revile, rail. 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 vituperate a common word?

vituperate 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.