adj
Meaning 1
Disparaging or derisive in an insinuative way.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- Don't make snide remarks to me.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
snide
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Sound
Pronunciation
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/snaɪd/
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rhymes with -aɪd
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adj
Meaning 2
Tricky; deceptive; false; spurious; contemptible.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
An underhanded, tricky person given to sharp practice; a sharper; a cheat.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
Counterfeit money.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 5
expressive of contempt
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- curled his lip in a supercilious smile
- spoke in a sneering jeering manner
- makes many a sharp comparison but never a mean or snide one
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: supercilious, sneering
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
Probably from a dialectal variant of snithe (“sharp, cutting, cold”). See snithe (adjective). Alternatively, possibly a metathetic corruption of Middle English snythand (“piercing (the heart), cold, biting”, literally and figuratively). More at snithe (verb). Compare typologically cutting, Russian ко́лкий (kólkij) (akin to коло́ть (kolótʹ)).
Across languages
Translations
57 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: подигравателен (podigravatelen) — nasty, sarcastic
- Catalan: sorneguer — nasty, sarcastic
- Czech: jízlivý — nasty, sarcastic
- Czech: uštěpačný — nasty, sarcastic
- Czech: posměšný — nasty, sarcastic
- Danish: spydig — nasty, sarcastic
- Danish: drilsk — nasty, sarcastic
- Danish: nedladende — nasty, sarcastic
- Danish: sarkastisk — nasty, sarcastic
- Dutch: sarcastisch — nasty, sarcastic
- Dutch: snedig — nasty, sarcastic
- Finnish: vihjaileva — nasty, sarcastic
- Finnish: ilkeämielinen — nasty, sarcastic
- French: sarcastique — nasty, sarcastic
- German: abfällig — nasty, sarcastic
- German: verächtlich — nasty, sarcastic
- German: herabsetzend — nasty, sarcastic
- German: spöttisch — nasty, sarcastic
- Hungarian: rosszindulatú — nasty, sarcastic
- Hungarian: bántó — nasty, sarcastic
- Hungarian: becsmérlő — nasty, sarcastic
- Hungarian: gúnyos — nasty, sarcastic
- Hungarian: gunyoros — nasty, sarcastic
- Hungarian: szarkasztikus — nasty, sarcastic
- Icelandic: illkvittinn — nasty, sarcastic
- Icelandic: meinhæðinn — nasty, sarcastic
- Italian: sarcastico — nasty, sarcastic
- Italian: derisorio — nasty, sarcastic
- Italian: sprezzante — nasty, sarcastic
- Italian: schernevole — nasty, sarcastic
- Māori: whakatīkai — nasty, sarcastic
- Māori: whakatakē — nasty, sarcastic
- Portuguese: sarcástico — nasty, sarcastic
- Russian: глумли́вый (glumlívyj) — nasty, sarcastic
- Russian: насме́шливый (nasméšlivyj) — nasty, sarcastic
- Russian: язвительный (jazvitelʹnyj) — nasty, sarcastic
- Serbo-Croatian: sarkastičan — nasty, sarcastic
- Serbo-Croatian: podrugljiv — nasty, sarcastic
- Serbo-Croatian: podao — nasty, sarcastic
- Spanish: socarrón — nasty, sarcastic
- Swedish: spydig — nasty, sarcastic
- Swedish: nedsättande — nasty, sarcastic
- Swedish: insinuant — nasty, sarcastic
- Welsh: coeglyd — nasty, sarcastic
- Welsh: gwawdlyd — nasty, sarcastic
- Bulgarian: измамен (izmamen) — tricky, deceptive
- Bulgarian: фалшив (falšiv) — tricky, deceptive
- Dutch: heimelijk — tricky, deceptive
- Dutch: bedrieglijk — tricky, deceptive
- French: trompeur — tricky, deceptive
- German: betrügerisch — tricky, deceptive
- Hungarian: becstelen — tricky, deceptive
- Hungarian: tisztességtelen — tricky, deceptive
- Hungarian: csaló — tricky, deceptive
- Hungarian: hamis — tricky, deceptive
- Icelandic: fyrirlítanlegur — tricky, deceptive
- Russian: обма́нчивый (obmánčivyj) — tricky, deceptive