invidious
Meaning of invidious
adjective
- (of an action or situation) likely to arouse or incur resentment or anger in others.
she'd put herself in an invidious position
early 17th century: from Latin invidiosus, from invidia (see envy).
Information about invidious
- It is an adjective.
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Hyphenation of invidious
in-vid-i-ous
- It consists of 4 syllables and 9 chars.
- invidious is a word polysyllabic because it has four or more syllables
invidious synonyms
Meaning discriminatory:
Meaning causing discomfort, unhappiness, or revulsion; disagreeable:
Meaning causing difficulty; hard to do or deal with:
Meaning needing much effort or skill to accomplish, deal with, or understand:
Meaning not wanted or desirable because harmful, objectionable, or unpleasant:
Meaning difficult, undesirable, or unpleasant:
invidious antonyms
Meaning giving a sense of happy satisfaction or enjoyment:
Meaning wished for as being an attractive, useful, or necessary course of action:
Translation of invidious
- German: beleidigend, verleumderisch
- Italian: diffamatorio
- Spanish: difamatorio, difamatoria
- French: diffamatoire
Words that rhyme with invidious
aerobious, amphibious, anaerobious, antiscabious, dubious, helobious, hematobious, indubious, microbious, nonamphibious, rabious, rubious, scabious, stibious, superbious, superdubious, triphibious, undubious, Delicious, Procious, acinacious, ametoecious, androdioecious, andromonoecious, appendicious, artificious, astucious, atrocious, audacious, auspicious, autecious, autoecious, avaricious, bibacious, bodacious, boldacious, bowdacious, capacious, capricious, cilicious, coconscious, cogracious, conconscious, conscious, contumacious, curvacious, delicious, dicacious, diecious, dioecious
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