Definition for Invidious:

• Likely to incur ill- will or to provoke envy; envious.

Synonyms for Invidious:

• adj.

  •all (adjective)
  • discriminatory,
  • invidious.
  •envious (adjective)
  • fain,
  • green with envy,
  • longing for.
  •hateful (adjective)
  • slighting,
  • Vilifying,
  • offensive,
  • Maligning,
  • Detracting,
  • uncool,
  • Detractory,
  • loathsome,
  • abominable,
  • Envying,
  • shuddersome,
  • odious,
  • detestable.
  •jealous (adjective)
  • grabby,
  • mistrustful,
  • Possessory,
  • doubting.
  •libelous (adjective)
  • calumniatory,
  • Aspersive.
  •loathsome (adjective)
  • beastlier,
  • beastliest.
  •objectionable (adjective)
  • unpalatable,
  • dislikable,
  • unwelcome.
  •obnoxious (adjective)
  • heelest,
  • pillest,
  • pain neck,
  • un pleasant,
  • more hateable,
  • most hateable,
  • un-pleasant,
  • pain in neck,
  • pain the neck,
  • offcolor,
  • off color.
  •repugnant (adjective)
  • more inconsonant,
  • in consistent,
  • in-compatible,
  • un-fitted,
  • in compatible,
  • un friendliest,
  • most unconformable,
  • more revulsive,
  • anti pathetic,
  • more unfitted,
  • more unconformable,
  • un-friendlier,
  • in-consistent,
  • un-conformable,
  • anti-pathetic,
  • un conformable,
  • un-friendly,
  • in consonant,
  • un-friendliest,
  • un fitted,
  • most against,
  • in-consonant,
  • most unfitted,
  • more against,
  • most inconsonant,
  • un friendlier,
  • most revulsive.

• n.

  •
  • adverse,
  • embarrassing,
  • bad.
  •
  • injurious,
  • law,
  • scandalous,
  • attack.
  •
  • desire.
  •injurious (noun)
  • harmful,
  • unfair.
  •invidious (noun)
  • unfavorable,
  • unfavourable.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • expensive,
  • contentious,
  • devilish,
  • tendentious,
  • calumnious,
  • schismatic,
  • offending,
  • fractious,
  • amiss,
  • green-eyed,
  • fraught,
  • touchy,
  • difficult,
  • self-defeating,
  • burdensome,
  • problematic,
  • vexed,
  • costly,
  • troublesome,
  • provocative,
  • intrusive,
  • disruptive,
  • problem,
  • divisive,
  • murphy's law,
  • punitive,
  • obstructive.
  •
  • detractive,
  • prickly,
  • defamatory,
  • mischievous,
  • incendiary,
  • slanderous,
  • inflammatory,
  • rogue,
  • awkward,
  • libelous,
  • undesirable,
  • covetous,
  • corrosive.
  •
  • crippling.
  •Other relevant words:
  • irritating,
  • malignant,
  • sneering,
  • iniquitous,
  • repellent,
  • discourteous,
  • annoying,
  • spiteful,
  • evil,
  • unaccommodating,
  • malicious,
  • contemptuous,
  • preferential,
  • cussed,
  • Plaguing,
  • prejudiced,
  • pernicious,
  • antagonistic,
  • horrid,
  • suspicious,
  • repulsive,
  • noxious,
  • mean,
  • distasteful,
  • distrustful,
  • grudging,
  • acrimonious,
  • disgusting,
  • retaliatory,
  • unforgiving,
  • hostile,
  • unpleasant,
  • yellow,
  • churlish,
  • malevolent,
  • baleful,
  • tiresome,
  • Horn-mad,
  • sarcastic,
  • disagreeable,
  • scathing,
  • inequitable,
  • nasty,
  • ghastly,
  • ornery,
  • begrudging,
  • sardonic,
  • retaliative,
  • surly,
  • mortifying,
  • harsh,
  • foul,
  • outrageous,
  • stinging,
  • resentful,
  • forbidding,
  • wounding,
  • Irksome,
  • aggravating,
  • enviable,
  • stern,
  • provoking,
  • maleficent,
  • bitchy,
  • green,
  • venomous,
  • sullen,
  • bitter,
  • plaguy,
  • rancorous,
  • Inofficious,
  • galling,
  • scornful,
  • wearisome,
  • retributive,
  • mordant,
  • jaundiced,
  • cutting,
  • abhorrent,
  • ungracious,
  • Uncandid,
  • objectionable,
  • vexatious,
  • acerb,
  • retributory,
  • unfriendly,
  • discriminative,
  • Revulsive,
  • caustic,
  • unkind,
  • vicious,
  • Yellow-eyed,
  • unaesthetic,
  • malign,
  • disobliging,
  • wicked,
  • acid,
  • malefic.

Paraphrases for Invidious:

• Independent

  • Adjective
    heinous, iniquitous, abhorrent, hideous, loathsome, inequitable, vicious, horrendous, despicable.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    odious, unjust, unfair, hateful, thankless.

Antonyms for Invidious:

• adj.

  • hateful
    delightful, lovable, likeable.
  • Other antonyms:
    charitable, well-meaning, benevolent, kind, favourable, favorable, kindhearted, generous, altruistic.

Invidious Sentence Examples:

• From the first moment of his arrival he exercised the most bitter hostility to the Irish, and enhanced the invidious distinction between the English by birth and the English by descent.

• The Duke of Hereward was very fond and very proud of his lovely young bride, whose beauty soon became the theme of London clubs - though invidious critics insisted that she was much too pale and grave ever to become a reigning belle.