mordacious
mordacious adjective: biting, causing a physical bite or sting; corrosive.
Adjective
mordacious (comparative more mordacious, superlative most mordacious)
- Biting, causing a physical bite or sting; corrosive
- Sharp or caustic in style or tone.
- Sharp in intent, sarcastic.
- And that is really the long and the short of the whole matter, my mordacious friend.1927, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], Max Carrados Mysteries
- Prone to biting, aggressive (of an animal etc.).
- 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.1856, Samuel Klinefelter Hoshour, Letters to Squire Pedant, in the East, page 13
mordacious meaning in Urdu and Sanskrit
mordacious in Urdu
- چبھتا ہوا, دلدوز, کٹیلا, تیز
mordacious in Sanskrit
- mordacious, biting
- दङ्क्ष्णु daṅkṣṇú
Forms of mordacious
| comparative | more mordacious |
|---|---|
| superlative | most mordacious |
Origin of mordacious
From Latin mordax (“given to biting, corrosive”) (from mordere (“to bite, sting”)) + -ious.
Words formed from mordacious
Questions about mordacious
- What does mordacious mean?
- Mordacious means biting, causing a physical bite or sting; corrosive.
- What is mordacious in Urdu?
- Mordacious in Urdu is چبھتا ہوا, دلدوز, کٹیلا. See Mordacious meaning in Urdu.
- What part of speech is mordacious?
- Mordacious is an adjective.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: mordacious (page history and authors); mordacious (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); दङ्क्ष्णु (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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