adj
Meaning 1
Biting, causing a physical bite or sting; corrosive
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Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
mordacious
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adj
Meaning 2
Sharp or caustic in style or tone.
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adj
Meaning 3
Sharp in intent, sarcastic.
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adj
Meaning 4
Prone to biting, aggressive (of an animal etc.).
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adjective satellite
Meaning 5
biting or given to biting
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- they deliberately gave me a skittish and mordacious mount
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adjective satellite
Meaning 6
capable of wounding
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- a barbed compliment
- a biting aphorism
- pungent satire
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: barbed, biting, nipping, pungent
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
From Latin mordax (“given to biting, corrosive”) (from mordere (“to bite, sting”)) + -ious.
Across languages
Translations
24 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: хаплив (hapliv) — biting, causing a bite or sting
- Dutch: bijtend — biting, causing a bite or sting
- Dutch: scherp — biting, causing a bite or sting
- Russian: е́дкий (jédkij) — biting, causing a bite or sting
- Bulgarian: язвителен (jazvitelen) — biting, sharp or caustic in style or tone
- Dutch: bijtend — biting, sharp or caustic in style or tone
- Dutch: scherp — biting, sharp or caustic in style or tone
- Hungarian: csípős — biting, sharp or caustic in style or tone
- Hungarian: metsző — biting, sharp or caustic in style or tone
- Russian: язви́тельный (jazvítelʹnyj) — biting, sharp or caustic in style or tone
- Russian: е́дкий (jédkij) — biting, sharp or caustic in style or tone
- Spanish: mordaz — biting, sharp or caustic in style or tone
- Bulgarian: саркастичен (sarkastičen) — sharp in intent, sarcastic
- Dutch: bijtend — sharp in intent, sarcastic
- Dutch: bitter — sharp in intent, sarcastic
- Dutch: sarcastisch — sharp in intent, sarcastic
- Dutch: scherp — sharp in intent, sarcastic
- Russian: язви́тельный (jazvítelʹnyj) — sharp in intent, sarcastic
- Russian: е́дкий (jédkij) — sharp in intent, sarcastic
- Bulgarian: хаплив (hapliv) — prone to biting
- Dutch: bijtend — prone to biting
- Dutch: bijtgraag — prone to biting
- Russian: куса́чий (kusáčij) — prone to biting
- Spanish: mordedor — prone to biting