Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun epithet

2 senses of epithet

Sense 1
name, epithet -- (a defamatory or abusive word or phrase)
       => defamation, calumny, calumniation, obloquy, traducement, hatchet job -- (a false accusation of an offense or a malicious misrepresentation of someone's words or actions)

Sense 2
epithet -- (descriptive word or phrase)
       => word picture, word-painting, delineation, depiction, picture, characterization, characterisation -- (a graphic or vivid verbal description; "too often the narrative was interrupted by long word pictures"; "the author gives a depressing picture of life in Poland"; "the pamphlet contained brief characterizations of famous Vermonters")