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| Main Entry: | biting |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | piercing, sharp |
| Synonyms: | bitter, bleak, cold, crisp, cutting, freezing, harsh, penetrating, raw, blighting, nipping |
| Antonyms: | bland, calm, mild |
| Main Entry: | biting |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sarcastic |
| Synonyms: | acerbic, acrimonious, bitter, caustic, cutting, incisive, mordant, scathing, severe, sharp, stinging, trenchant, withering |
| Antonyms: | kind, nice, sweet |
| Main Entry: | bite |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | grip or tear with teeth |
| Synonyms: | chew, chomp, clamp, crunch, crush, cut, eat, gnaw, hold, lacerate, masticate, munch, nibble, nip, pierce, pinch, rend, ruminate, seize, sever, snap, taste, tooth, wound, champ, chaw, chaw on, take a chunk out of |
| Main Entry: | bite |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | corrode, eat away |
| Synonyms: | burn, consume, decay, decompose, deteriorate, dissolve, engrave, erode, etch, oxidize, rot, rust, scour, sear, slash, smart, sting, tingle, eat into, wear away |
| Main Entry: | bite |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | take a chance |
| Synonyms: | nibble, risk, volunteer, be victim, get hooked |
| Antonyms: | be careful |
| Main Entry: | acrimonious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | nasty in behavior, speech |
| Synonyms: | acerbic, acid, angry, astringent, belligerent, biting, bitter, caustic, censorious, churlish, crabby, cranky, cross, cutting, indignant, irascible, irate, mad, mordant, peevish, petulant, sarcastic, sharp, spiteful, tart, testy, trenchant, wrathful, ireful, rancorous, splenetic |
| Antonyms: | kind, kindly, peaceable |
| Main Entry: | astringent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | harsh |
| Synonyms: | acetic, acrid, biting, bitter, cutting, sharp, tonic |
| Antonyms: | bland, mild |
| Main Entry: | corrosive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | consuming, wearing; bitter |
| Synonyms: | acerbic, acrid, biting, caustic, cutting, destructive, incisive, sarcastic, trenchant, venomous, virulent, acerb, corroding, erosive, strongly acid, wasting |
| Antonyms: | supporting, contributing, fortifying |
| Main Entry: | cutting |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | nasty, hateful |
| Synonyms: | acerbic, acid, acrimonious, barbed, biting, bitter, caustic, clear-cut, crisp, hurtful, incisive, malicious, penetrating, piercing, pointed, raw, sarcastic, sardonic, scathing, severe, sharp, stinging, trenchant, ingoing, probing, wounding |
| Antonyms: | kind, nice, pleasant |
| Main Entry: | freezing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very cold |
| Synonyms: | arctic, biting, bitter, chill, chilly, cutting, frigid, frosty, gelid, glacial, icy, nippy, penetrating, polar, raw, snappy*, wintry, Siberian, chilled, frost-bound, hawkish, numbing, one-dog night, shivery, two-dog night |
| Antonyms: | boiling, heated, hot |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | gullible |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | naive, trusting |
| Synonyms: | believing, biting, credulous, easy mark*, foolish, green*, innocent, mark*, silly, simple, sucker, susceptible, unsophisticated, unsuspecting, being a sucker, easily taken in, falling hook line and sinker, kidding oneself, swallowing whole, taken in, taking the bait, trustful, tumbling for, unskeptical, wide-eyed |
| Antonyms: | astute, discerning, knowledgeable, perceptive, suspicious, unbelieving, wise, untrusting |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | ice-cold |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very cold |
| Synonyms: | arctic, biting, bitter, chill, cutting, freezing, frozen, gelid, glacial, icy, piercing, polar, raw, wintry, Siberian, algid, bitterly cold, brumal, sub-zero |
| Antonyms: | hot, warm, burning hot |
| Main Entry: | insulting |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | abusive |
| Synonyms: | biting, degrading, derogatory, discourteous, disparaging, disrespectful, hurtful, insolent, offensive, repulsive, rude, slighting, uncivil, ridiculing |
| Main Entry: | intense |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | forceful, severe; passionate |
| Synonyms: | acute, agonizing, ardent, biting, bitter, burning, close, concentrated, consuming, cutting, deep, diligent, eager, earnest, energetic, exaggerated, exceptional, excessive, exquisite, extraordinary, extreme, fanatical, fervent, fervid, fierce, forcible, full, great, hard, harsh, impassioned, intensive, keen, marked, piercing, powerful, profound, pungent, sharp, shrill, stinging, strained, strong, supreme, undue, vehement, violent, vivid, zealous, all-consuming, heightened, intensified, protracted |
| Notes: | emotions are intense while sustained application or attention is intensive; intense arises from within and intensive comes from outside (it is imposed or assumed) |
| Antonyms: | calm, dull, low-key, mild, moderate |
| Main Entry: | ironic/ironical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sarcastic |
| Synonyms: | acrid, alert, arrogant, backbiting, biting, bitter, burlesque, caustic, clever, contemptuous, contradictory, critical, cutting, cynical, defiant, derisive, disparaging, exaggerated, implausible, incisive, incongruous, keen, mocking, mordant, pungent, quick-witted, ridiculous, sardonic, satirical, scathing, sharp, sneering, spicy, trenchant, twisted, witty, wry, chaffing, double-edged, jibing, paradoxical, satiric, scoffing, uncomplimentary |
| Antonyms: | considerate, deferential |
| Main Entry: | mordant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sarcastic |
| Synonyms: | acerbic, acid, biting, bitter, caustic, cutting, cynical, disparaging, disrespectful, mean, poignant, pointed, sardonic, scathing, sharp, acerb |
| Main Entry: | painful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | physically or mentally agonizing |
| Synonyms: | agonizing, arduous, awful, biting, burning, caustic, difficult, dire, disagreeable, distasteful, distressing, dreadful, excruciating, extreme, grievous, hard, harrowing, hurtful, inflamed, irritated, laborious, piercing, raw, sensitive, severe, sharp, sore, stinging, tedious, tender, terrible, troublesome, trying, uncomfortable, unpleasant, vexatious, aching, afflictive, extremely bad, hurting, saddening, smarting, throbbing, tormenting |
| Antonyms: | delightful, easy, pleasant, painless |
| Main Entry: | piercing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | intense to the senses |
| Synonyms: | acute, agonizing, arctic, biting, bitter, cold, deafening, earsplitting, excruciating, exquisite, fierce, freezing, frosty, high, high-pitched, keen, loud, painful, penetrating, powerful, raw, severe, sharp, shooting, shrill, stentorian, thin, wintry, blaring, knifelike, numbing, racking, roaring, shattering, stabbing, stentorious, treble |
| Antonyms: | low, soft, weak |
| Main Entry: | sarcastic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | nasty, mocking in speech |
| Synonyms: | acerbic, acid, acrimonious, arrogant, austere, backhanded, biting, bitter, brusque, captious, carping, caustic, contemptuous, corrosive, cutting, cynical, derisive, disillusioned, disparaging, disrespectful, evil, hostile, irascible, mean, mordant, offensive, ornery*, salty, sardonic, satirical, saucy*, scorching, scornful, scurrilous, severe, sharp, sneering, trenchant, acerb, chaffing, contumelious, cussed, ironical, needling, smart-alecky, snarling, taunting, twitting, weisenheiming |
| Antonyms: | kind, nice |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | sardonic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sarcastic |
| Synonyms: | acerbic, arrogant, biting, bitter, carping, caustic, cynical, derisive, disrespectful, evil, irascible, mean, mocking, mordant, nasty, offensive, salty*, satirical, scorching, scornful, sharp, sneering, wise*, smart-alecky, taunting |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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