What are some opposite words for biting?
Antonyms for biting
ˈbaɪ tɪŋbit·ing
This page is about all possible antonyms and opposite words for the term biting.
English Synonyms and Antonyms
biting
Acid, sour, and bitter agree in being contrasted with sweet, but the two former are sharply distinguished from the latter. Acid or sour is the taste of vinegar or lemon-juice; bitter that of quassia, quinine, or strychnine. Acrid is nearly allied to bitter. Pungent suggests the effect of pepper or snuff on the organs of taste or smell; as, a pungent odor. Caustic indicates the corroding effect of some strong chemical, as nitrate of silver. In a figurative sense, as applied to language or character, these words are very closely allied. We say a sour face, sharp words, bitter complaints, caustic wit, cutting irony, biting sarcasm, a stinging taunt, harsh judgment, a tart reply. Harsh carries the idea of intentional and severe unkindness, bitter of a severity that arises from real or supposed ill treatment. The bitter speech springs from the sore heart. Tart and sharp utterances may not proceed from an intention to wound, but merely from a wit recklessly keen; cutting, stinging, and biting speech indicates more or less of hostile intent, the latter being the more deeply malicious. The caustic utterance is meant to burn, perhaps wholesomely, as in the satire of Juvenal or Cervantes. Compare MOROSE.
Antonyms:
dulcet, honeyed, luscious, nectared, saccharine, sweetSynonyms:
acerb, acetous, acid, acidulated, acidulous, acrid, acrimonious, bitter, caustic, cutting, harsh, irate, pungent, savage, sharp, sour, stinging, tart, vinegarish, virulent
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
biting
Antonyms:
pleasant, genial, soothing, complacent, flatteringSynonyms:
pungent, censorious, piercing, gnawing, sarcastic, sardonic, trenchant
Princeton's WordNet
barbed, biting, nipping, pungent, mordaciousadjective
capable of wounding
"a barbed compliment"; "a biting aphorism"; "pungent satire"
Antonyms:
unsarcastic, painlessSynonyms:
briary, nipping, prickly, barbed, setose, mordacious, snappy, crisp, pungent, burred, nippy, bristly, barbellate, setaceous, briery, thorny, acrid, burry, bitter, spiny, bristled, frostybiting, bitteradjective
causing a sharply painful or stinging sensation; used especially of cold
"bitter cold"; "a biting wind"
Antonyms:
unsarcastic, painlessSynonyms:
virulent, nipping, barbed, vitriolic, mordacious, acerbic, sulphurous, acrimonious, caustic, acrid, sulfurous, blistering, acid, pungent, bitter, acerb
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How to use biting in a sentence?
So, teething isn't something that parents should be worried about or something that need tremendous action plans, however, if they do notice their kids are fussy and biting on things we can address them in many ways.
People think of me as a neurotic kid, full of fits and depressions, biting my fingernails to the bone, living under an eternal shadow of illness and collapse. Why do people insist on seeing an aura of tragedy around me always? My life isn’t tragic at all. I laugh a lot these days. At myself, too. Lord, if I couldn’t laugh at myself I don’t think I’d be alive.
Please hurry. He’s biting my nose.
The other cop let the dog out, and they just kept punching him and the dog kept biting him at the same time, he was on the floor, like he was knocked out.
There is a great difference between our son being born in his country and born here in such a miserable conditions and this cold weather. The cold is biting for us, let alone for a newborn, tAKE THEM BACK.
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#2466 | sweet | |
#5538 | pleasant | |
#18316 | biting | |
#18586 | soothing | |
#27099 | luscious | |
#27677 | painless | |
#33864 | flattering | |
#44531 | complacent | |
#57508 | genial | |
#101586 | saccharine | |
#120295 | honeyed | |
#182872 | dulcet |
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