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形容詞

mordacious (comparative more mordacious, superlative most mordacious)

1. Biting, causing a physical bite or sting; corrosive
2. Sharp or caustic in style or tone.
3. Sharp in intent, sarcastic.
   • 1927, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], Max Carrados Mysteries:

     And that is really the long and the short of the whole matter, my mordacious friend.

4. 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.

派生語

• mordaciously
• mordacity

関連する語

• mordant
• mordancy

Further reading

• Douglas Harper (2001–2026), “mordacious”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.