Definition of biting
- a biting wind
- a biting wit
a biting wind that only the toughest football fans were willing to endure
the biting comments by the popular girls about the new kid in class
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14th century
acerbic, acid, acidic, acrid, barbed, caustic, corrosive, cutting, mordant, pungent, sarcastic, sardonic, satiric (or satirical), scalding, scathing, sharp, smart-aleck, smart-alecky, tart;
amusing, droll, merry, playful, sportive, waggish;
diplomatic, polite, smooth, suave, urbane;
brisk, cross, sharp-tongued, sour, sourish, spiky (also spikey), tartish;
incisive, keen, poignant, trenchant;
cynical, dry, ironic (also ironical), wry;
facetious, flippant, tongue-in-cheek;
acrimonious, bitter, resentful, vitriolic;
harsh, rough, severe, stringent;
abrupt, blunt, brusque (also brusk), concise, crisp, curt, gruff, pithy, snippety, snippy, succinct, terse;
: unpleasantly cold
: having a sharply critical and often clever quality
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