Vituperative vs Rude - What's the difference?
vituperative | rude |
marked by harsh, spoken, or written abuse; abusive, often with ranting or railing
* 1598 :
* 2009 " [
bad-mannered
Somewhat obscene, pornographic, offensive.
tough, robust.
undeveloped, unskilled, basic.
* 2 Corinthians 11:6 (KVJ)
* (rfdate), Rudyard Kipling, The Conundrum of the Workshops
* 1767 , Adam Ferguson, An Essay on the History of Civil Society
hearty, vigorous; (found particularly in the phrase rude health).
As an adjective vituperative
is marked by harsh, spoken, or written abuse; abusive, often with ranting or railing.As a proper noun rude is
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English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Vituperative appellations derived from their real or supposed ill qualities.
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- The injunction also became a pretext for yet another round of Vituperative cant from Idaho's reactionary congressional delegation against provoking folks like hippie Roselle.[http://www.counterpunch.org/stclair10302009.html]
Synonyms
* (marked by harsh verbal abuse) abusive, censorious, invective, ranting, scoldingReferences
*rude
English
(mismatch between senses and translations)Adjective
(er)- The girl was so rude to her boyfriend by screaming at him for no reason.
- But though I be rude in speech, yet not in knowledge
- When the flush of a new-born sun fell first on Eden's green and gold,
- Our father Adam sat under the Tree and scratched with a stick in the mould;
- And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart,
- Till the Devil whispered behind the leaves, "It's pretty, but is it Art?"
- It might be apprehended, that among rude nations, where the means of subsistence are procured with so much difficulty, the mind could never raise itself above the consideration of this subject