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thersitical

thersitical adjective: scurrilous, grossly defamatory.

Adjective (1)

thersitical (comparative more thersitical, superlative most thersitical)

  1. Scurrilous, grossly defamatory
  2. Caustic, obscenely and tactlessly abusive

Adjective (2) capitalized: Thersitical

Thersitical (comparative more Thersitical, superlative most Thersitical)

  1. (alternative) Alternative form of thersitical.

Forms of thersitical

comparativemore thersitical
superlativemost thersitical
alternative formThersitical
comparativemore Thersitical
superlativemost Thersitical

Origin of thersitical

After Thersites, a minor character in the Iliad who slandered and mocked Agamemnon.

Questions about thersitical

What does thersitical mean?
Thersitical means scurrilous, grossly defamatory.
What part of speech is thersitical?
Thersitical is an adjective.

Words near thersitical in the dictionary

  1. thers
  2. Thersander
  3. thersite
  4. Thersitean
  5. thersites
  6. thersitical
  7. thesaural
  8. thesaurer
  9. thesaurers
  10. thesauri
  11. thesauric

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: thersitical (page history and authors); Thersitical (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.

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