Biting

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Causing a stinging sensation; nipping: biting cold.
  • adj. Capable of gripping and affecting or wounding; cutting: a biting aphorism. See Synonyms at incisive.
  • adj. Of or relating to insects and certain other animals that wound the skin with a sting, mouthparts, or fangs.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. Present participle of bite.
  • n. The action of the verb to bite.
  • n. An occurrence of a bite.
  • adj. Causing a stinging sensation.
  • adj. Cutting or incisive.
  • adj. Tending to bite.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. That bites; sharp; cutting; sarcastic; caustic.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The action of cutting, piercing, etc., in any sense of bite.
  • n. The corroding action of a mordant upon a metal plate, wherever the lines of a design, drawn upon a prepared ground, have been laid bare with a needle, as in etching, or the surface is alternately stopped out and exposed, as in aquatint.
  • Nipping; keen: as, biting cold; biting weather.
  • Severe; sharp; bitter; painful: as, a “biting affliction,”
  • Acrid; hot; pungent: as, a biting taste.
  • Hence Sharp; severe; cutting; sarcastic: as, a biting remark.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. causing a sharply painful or stinging sensation; used especially of cold
  • adj. capable of wounding
  • Equivalent
    painful    sarcastic   
    Cross Reference
    acrid    stimulating    acrimonious    sarcastic   
    Form
    bitingly   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    sharp    cutting    sarcastic    caustic   
    Verb Stem
    bite   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    benighting    citing    delighting    exciting    fighting    igniting    inciting    indicting    inviting    kiting