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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | consuming, wearing; bitter |
| Synonyms: | acerb, acerbic, acrid, biting, caustic, corroding, cutting, destructive, erosive, incisive, sarcastic, strongly acid, trenchant, venomous, virulent, wasting |
| Antonyms: | contributing, fortifying, supporting |
| Main Entry: | sarcastic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | nasty, mocking in speech |
| Synonyms: | acerb, acerbic, acid, acrimonious, arrogant, austere, backhanded, biting, bitter, brusque, captious, carping, caustic, chaffing, contemptuous, contumelious, corrosive, cussed, cutting, cynical, derisive, disillusioned, disparaging, disrespectful, evil, hostile, irascible, ironical, mean, mordant, needling, offensive, ornery*, salty, sardonic, satirical, saucy*, scorching, scornful, scurrilous, severe, sharp, smart-alecky, snarling, sneering, taunting, trenchant, twitting, weisenheiming |
| Notes: | sarcastic means 'derisive, tauntingly contemptuous,' while sardonic means 'bitterly scornful, cynically disdainful' |
| Antonyms: | kind, nice |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | devouring |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | eating up |
| Synonyms: | annihilatory, consuming, corrosive, edacious, gluttonous, voracious |
| Main Entry: | vitriolic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | scathing |
| Synonyms: | antagonistic, biting, bitter, burning, caustic, corrosive, cutting, harsh, sharp |
| Main Entry: | corrosiveness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sarcasm |
| Synonyms: | acrimony, causticity, corrosive, corrosivity, mordacity, mordancy, trenchancy |
| Main Entry: | corrosiveness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | erosiveness |
| Synonyms: | corrosity, corrosive, disintegrating, erosivity |
| Main Entry: | mordacious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | biting |
| Synonyms: | acerbic, acid, acidic, acrid, acrimonious, astringent, bitter, caustic, corrosive, cutting, incisive, mordant, pungent, scathing, severe, sharp, slashing, stinging, trenchant, truculent, vitriolic, withering |
| Main Entry: | satiric |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sarcastic |
| Synonyms: | acerb, acerbic, acid, acrimonious, arrogant, austere, backhanded, biting, bitter, brusque, captious, carping, caustic, chaffing, contemptuous, contumelious, corrosive, cussed, cutting, cynical, derisive, disillusioned, disparaging, disrespectful, evil, hostile, irascible, ironical, jeering, mean, mocking, mordant, needling, offensive, ornery*, salty, sardonic, satirical, saucy*, scoffing, scorching, scornful, scurrilous, severe, sharp, smart-alecky, snarling, sneering, taunting, trenchant, twitting, weisenheiming |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | scoffing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sarcastic |
| Synonyms: | acerb, acerbic, acid, acrimonious, arrogant, austere, backhanded, biting, bitter, brusque, captious, carping, caustic, chaffing, contemptuous, contumelious, corrosive, cussed, cutting, cynical, derisive, disillusioned, disparaging, disrespectful, evil, hostile, irascible, ironical, jeering, mean, mocking, mordant, needling, offensive, ornery*, salty, sardonic, satiric, satirical, saucy*, scorching, scornful, scurrilous, severe, sharp, smart-alecky, snarling, sneering, taunting, trenchant, twitting, weisenheiming |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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