Word.ws English Dictionary

dysphemistic

dysphemistic adjective: of, pertaining to, or being a dysphemism.

Adjective

dysphemistic (comparative more dysphemistic, superlative most dysphemistic)

  1. Of, pertaining to, or being a dysphemism.

Forms of dysphemistic

comparativemore dysphemistic
superlativemost dysphemistic

Origin of dysphemistic

From dysphem(ism) + -istic.

Words formed from dysphemistic

Questions about dysphemistic

What does dysphemistic mean?
Dysphemistic means of, pertaining to, or being a dysphemism.
What part of speech is dysphemistic?
Dysphemistic is an adjective.

Words near dysphemistic in the dictionary

  1. dysphasics
  2. dysphemia
  3. dysphemias
  4. dysphemism
  5. dysphemisms
  6. dysphemistic
  7. dysphemistically
  8. dysphemize
  9. dysphemized
  10. dysphemizes
  11. dysphemizing

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: dysphemistic (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “dysphemistic.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/dysphemistic. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.