epithet

[Ep·i*thet]

The noun epithet is a descriptive nickname, such as "Richard the Lionhearted," or "Tommy the Terrible." When it takes a turn for the worse, it can also be a word or phrase that offends.

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An adjective expressing some quality, attribute, or relation, that is properly or specially appropriate to a person or thing; as, a just man; a verdant lawn.

Noun
a defamatory or abusive word or phrase; "sticks and stones may break my bones but names can never hurt me"

Noun
descriptive word or phrase

n.
An adjective expressing some quality, attribute, or relation, that is properly or specially appropriate to a person or thing; as, a just man; a verdant lawn.

n.
Term; expression; phrase.

v. t.
To describe by an epithet.

Epithet

Ep"i*thet , n. [L. epitheton, Gr. , fr. added, fr. to add; upon, to + to put, place: cf. F. '82pith'8ate. See Do.] 1. An adjective expressing some quality, attribute, or relation, that is properly or specially appropriate to a person or thing; as, a just man; a verdant lawn.

A prince [Henry III.] to whom the epithet "worthless" seems best applicable.

2. Term; expression; phrase. "Stiffed with epithets of war." Shak. Syn. -- Epithet, Title. The name epithet was formerly extended to nouns which give a title or describe character (as the "epithet of liar"), but is now confined wholly to adjectives. Some rhetoricians, as Whately, restrict it still further, considering the term epithet as belonging only to a limited class of adjectives, viz., those which add nothing to the sense of their noun, but simply hold forth some quality necessarily implied therein; as, the bright sun, the lofty heavens, etc. But this restriction does not prevail in general literature. Epithet is sometimes confounded with application, which is always a noun or its equivalent.

Epithet

Ep"i*thet, v. t. To describe by an epithet. [R.]

Never was a town better epitheted.

An adjective expressing some quality, attribute, or relation, that is properly or specially appropriate to a person or thing; as, a just man; a verdant lawn.

To describe by an epithet.

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Usage Examples

In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary and it is they alone who are masters.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

Children, I grant, should be innocent but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness.