Extended Open Multilingual Wordnet 1.3

00908672-a 'substitute a harsher or distasteful term for a mild one';

English

dysphemistic ( ⊳ ⇔ ) , offensive ( ⊳ ⊳ ⊳ )

Definitions

Japanese: より辛辣であるか不愉快な語を穏やかなものに変わりに用いる
― 'nigger'はアフリカ系アメリカ人の偽悪用語である
English: substitute a harsher or distasteful term for a mild one
― `nigger' is a dysphemistic term for `African-American'

Relations

Antonym:	euphemistic
Semantic Field:	all_a

External Links

TempoWN: ◁ △ ▶ (Past: 0.000; Present: 0.000; Future: 0.128)

SentiWN: △ ▼ (+0.00 -0.75) MLSentiCon: ▲ ▼ (+0.25 -0.38)