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Synonyms for biting
ˈbaɪ tɪŋbit·ing
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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.
Synonyms:
acerb, acetous, acid, acidulated, acidulous, acrid, acrimonious, bitter, caustic, cutting, harsh, irate, pungent, savage, sharp, sour, stinging, tart, vinegarish, virulentAntonyms:
dulcet, honeyed, luscious, nectared, saccharine, sweet
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
biting
Synonyms:
pungent, censorious, piercing, gnawing, sarcastic, sardonic, trenchantAntonyms:
pleasant, genial, soothing, complacent, flattering
Princeton's WordNet
barbed, biting, nipping, pungent, mordaciousadjective
capable of wounding
"a barbed compliment"; "a biting aphorism"; "pungent satire"
Synonyms:
briary, nipping, prickly, barbed, setose, mordacious, snappy, crisp, pungent, burred, nippy, bristly, barbellate, setaceous, briery, thorny, acrid, burry, bitter, spiny, bristled, frostyAntonyms:
unsarcastic, painlessbiting, bitteradjective
causing a sharply painful or stinging sensation; used especially of cold
"bitter cold"; "a biting wind"
Synonyms:
virulent, nipping, barbed, vitriolic, mordacious, acerbic, sulphurous, acrimonious, caustic, acrid, sulfurous, blistering, acid, pungent, bitter, acerbAntonyms:
unsarcastic, painless
Dictionary of English Synonymes
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Words popularity by usage frequency
| ranking | word | |
|---|---|---|
| #2570 | acid | |
| #3091 | sharp | |
| #3717 | cutting | |
| #9792 | savage | |
| #10079 | bitter | |
| #11018 | piercing | |
| #11437 | harsh | |
| #11793 | crisp | |
| #12027 | sour | |
| #18316 | biting | |
| #21938 | tart | |
| #27777 | frosty | |
| #29779 | sarcastic | |
| #33779 | barbed | |
| #35779 | caustic | |
| #38411 | snappy | |
| #40176 | stinging | |
| #40699 | blistering | |
| #41099 | prickly | |
| #43797 | virulent | |
| #47297 | spiny | |
| #48883 | thorny | |
| #50552 | pungent | |
| #58225 | irate | |
| #70931 | sardonic | |
| #75411 | gnawing | |
| #91935 | nipping | |
| #96542 | acerbic | |
| #96952 | acrid | |
| #100013 | vitriolic | |
| #101677 | trenchant | |
| #103017 | acrimonious | |
| #106653 | burry | |
| #114713 | bristly | |
| #116969 | bristled | |
| #117029 | nippy | |
| #194842 | sulfurous | |
| #195290 | censorious | |
| #206618 | sulphurous |
How to use biting in a sentence?
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.
The school called the police because they were required to make a report, they lied. They said this kid was biting, scratching, kicking other kids. It didn't happen.
That's the trouble with directors. Always biting the hand that lays the golden egg.
The fuel shortage is severely biting for the average person. They are forced to remain in lines far too long, for too much time, to pay too much money for too little fuel, this is no joking matter. Livelihoods and people's welfare are at stake. With so much on the line, Kachikwu's flippancy was out-of-line.
The Yonkers Police Department:
This coyote, including a second coyote observed traveling with the same, is suspected of multiple biting attacks in Yonkers and the surrounding jurisdictions over the past several days.
Translations for biting
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- хаплив, щипещ, лют, ухапване, остър, хапанеBulgarian
- sgaiteachScottish Gaelic
- csípősHungarian
- bersandingIndonesian
- pișcător, tăiosRomanian
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