What is another word for epithets?

Pronunciation: [ˈɛpɪθɪts] (IPA)

Epithets are adjectives or descriptive phrases that are used to further define a person, place, or thing. There are several synonyms for this word, including descriptive words, labels, tags, appellations, nicknames, and titles. Descriptive words describe the qualities or characteristics of someone or something, while labels and tags are assigned to individuals based on their behavior or status. Appellations, on the other hand, are formal names given to people or places, while nicknames are more informal and often used affectionately. Finally, titles are used as a mark of respect and are often given to people in positions of authority or achievement. Regardless of the term used, epithets play an important role in language and are used to enhance our understanding of the world around us.

What are the hypernyms for Epithets?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Usage examples for Epithets

The language of Homer, by its natural and musical flow, by its accumulated wealth of meaning, by the use of traditional epithets and modes of expression, that penetrate far back into the belief, the feelings, and the life of an earlier time, implies the existence of a long line of poets who preceded him.
"The Roman Poets of the Republic"
W. Y. Sellar
All the keen, hard epithets common to the modern day he flung into Neuman's face.
"The Desert of Wheat"
Zane Grey
Children afflicted by such features suffer torment from playfellows whose scornful epithets are echoed by the looking-glass.
"Civics and Health"
William H. Allen

Famous quotes with Epithets

  • The epithets of imbeciles have never bothered me.
    Rosa Bonheur
  • Insolence is not logic; epithets are the arguments of malice.
    Robert Green Ingersoll
  • A heap of epithets is poor praise: the praise lies in the facts, and in the way of telling them.
    Jean de La Bruyère
  • Emerson's prose is full of poetry, and his poems are light and air. ... His modes of expression, like his epithets, are imaginative.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • I attempt to describe Mr. Swinburne; and lo! the Bacchanal screams, the sterile Dolores sweats, serpents dance, men and women wrench, wriggle and foam in an endless alliteration of heated and meaningless words, the veriest garbage of Baudelaire flowered over with the epithets of the Della Cruscans.
    Algernon Charles Swinburne

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