- 1謾罵、辱罵；尖酸的抨擊之詞
Invective is a stream of rude, attacking words that someone when they are very angry — not one insult, but a whole burst meant to wound. You most often hear it as a noun: a speech full of invective, a storm of invective. Writers also use it as an adjective (invective language, invective remarks) for words whose job is to hurt. It is a rather formal, word. In everyday talk people more often say abuse, a rant, or a stream of insults. News and essays like it when they talk about political speeches or an online pile-on. A sharp joke among friends is not invective; invective is language used as a weapon.
組成From Latin in- (into) + vehere (to carry): speech 'carried in' against someone. English took it through Medieval Latin invectiva and Middle French invective.
同家族的字
- vehiclesame Latin vehere, 'to carry'
- inveighsame root; to speak bitterly against someone
原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
invectivenoun/ɪnˈvɛktɪv/
- 1
An expression which inveighs or rails against a person.
- 2
A severe or violent censure or reproach.
- 3
Something spoken or written, intended to cast shame, disgrace, censure, or reproach on another.
- And wordy attacks against slavery drew sneers from observers which were not altogether undeserved. The authors were compared to doctors who offered to a patient nothing more than invectives against the disease which consumed him.
- [A] savage passage of 14th-century invective about the text-obsessed nerdiness of the Florentine bibliophile and friend of Petrarch, Niccolò Niccoli ...
- 4
A harsh or reproachful accusation.
- Politics can raise invective to a low art.
invectiveadj/ɪnˈvɛktɪv/
- 1
Characterized by invection or railing.
- Tom's speeches became diatribes — each more invective than the last.
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