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English
Etymology
From Latin mordax (“given to biting, corrosive”) (from mordere (“to bite, sting”)) + -ious.
Adjective
mordacious (comparative more mordacious, superlative most mordacious)
- Biting, causing a physical bite or sting; corrosive
- sharp or caustic in style or tone.
- Prone to biting, aggressive (of an animal etc.).
1856, Samuel Klinefelter Hoshour, Letters to Squire Pedant, in the East, page 13:Not gyved with connubial relations, I entered upon my migration entirely isolated, with the exception of a canine quadruped whose mordacious, latrant, lusorious, and venatic qualities, are without parity.
- Sharp in intent, sarcastic
Derived terms
Translations
biting, causing a bite or sting
biting, sharp or caustic in style or tone
sharp in intent, sarcastic
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