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mordant meaning in Malayalam

രൂക്ഷമായ

/ˈmɔːdn̩t/US/ˈmoɹd(ə)nt/

mordant in Malayalam: രൂക്ഷമായ, ഉഗ്രമായ, എരിവുള്ള, പൊള്ളിക്കുന്ന. In English, mordant means having or showing a sharp or critical quality.

Malayalam words for mordant

trenchant, caustic, biting
രൂക്ഷമായ, ഉഗ്രമായ, എരിവുള്ള, പൊള്ളിക്കുന്ന, കഠിനം, ക്രൂരം

English meaning of mordant

  1. adjective Having or showing a sharp or critical quality.
  2. adjective Serving to fix a dye to a fiber.
  3. noun Any substance used to facilitate the fixing of a dye to a fibre; usually a metallic compound which reacts with the dye using chelation.
  4. noun Any corrosive substance used in etching.

Full definition of mordant

mordant in a sentence

  • Mordant these goods for dyeing.

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Questions about mordant in Malayalam

What is the meaning of mordant in Malayalam?
Mordant in Malayalam is രൂക്ഷമായ, ഉഗ്രമായ, എരിവുള്ള, പൊള്ളിക്കുന്ന.
mordant എന്നതിന്റെ മലയാളം അർത്ഥം എന്താണ്?
Mordant: രൂക്ഷമായ, ഉഗ്രമായ, എരിവുള്ള, പൊള്ളിക്കുന്ന.
What does mordant mean in English?
Mordant means having or showing a sharp or critical quality.

Source and license

Malayalam words from the E.K. Kurup corpus on Olam: mordant (dataset and license). English meanings adapted from Wiktionary: mordant (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the Malayalam words and English meanings and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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