snide
/snaɪd/
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Northumbria/snɛɪd/
snide adjective: disparaging or derisive in an insinuative way.
Adjective
snide (comparative snider, superlative snidest)
- Disparaging or derisive in an insinuative way.
- Don't make snide remarks to me.
- You write your snide bullshit from a dark room because that's what the angry do nowadays. I was nice to you, don't torture me for it.2010, Aaron Sorkin, The Social Network, spoken by Erica Albright (Rooney Mara)
- Tricky; deceptive; false; spurious; contemptible.
- Have nothing to do with snide goods; let it be known throughout the world that the farmers and dairymen, yea, and those engaged in other industries in the great State of Illinois, produce only the best of everything in their lines, and we will be the last to feel the effects of over-production.1890, Illinois State Dairymen's Association, Annual Report (volume 16, page 21)
- I knew without studying them that the rings and the watch were snide, and the jewel a paste one; but they were damn fine counterfeits.2002, Sarah Waters, chapter 1, in Fingersmith, London: Virago, →ISBN, part 1, page 19
Noun
snide (countable and uncountable, plural snides)
- An underhanded, tricky person given to sharp practice; a sharper; a cheat.
- Counterfeit money.
snide meaning in Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam
snide in Urdu
- ناگوار, ذلیل
snide in Bengali
- তাচ্ছিল্যপূর্ণ, পরোক্ষভাবে অপমানজনক, কুরুচিপূর্ণ
snide in Malayalam
- derogatory, disparaging, deprecating
- പരോക്ഷമായി അവഹേളിക്കുന്ന, വിലയിടിക്കുന്ന, അവഹേളനപരമായ, ആക്ഷേപസൂചനകമായ, പരിഹസിക്കുന്ന തരത്തിലുള്ള, നിസ്സാരമാക്കിപ്പറയുന്ന
Examples of snide in a sentence
- My brother thumbed his nose in reply to my snide remarks.
- He came back with one of his snide remarks.
- My only contribution to radblr is occasional snide commentary, and they're not even particularly funny.
Forms of snide
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | snider |
| superlative | snidest |
| Noun | |
| plural | snides |
Origin of snide
Probably from a dialectal variant of snithe (“sharp, cutting, cold”). See snithe (adjective). Alternatively, possibly a metathetic corruption of Middle English snythand (“piercing (the heart), cold, biting”, literally and figuratively). More at snithe (verb). Compare typologically cutting, Russian ко́лкий (kólkij) (akin to коло́ть (kolótʹ)).
Words formed from snide
Phrases with snide
Words that rhyme with snide
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- provide
- tied
- fried
- glide
- hide
- inside
- bide
- decide
- offside
- -side
- collide
- confide
- flipside
- set aside
- stride
- subside
- aside
- beride
- beside
- bestride
- chide
- coincide
- cyanide
- dried
- elide
- eyed
- gride
- preside
- reside
- Ryde
- allied
- applied
- astride
- betide
- bride
- deride
- dyed
- guyed
- I'd
- imide
- incide
- pied
- right side
- said
- statewide
- tried
- vide
- allide
Questions about snide
- What does snide mean?
- Snide means disparaging or derisive in an insinuative way.
- What is snide in Urdu?
- Snide in Urdu is ناگوار, ذلیل. See Snide meaning in Urdu.
- What part of speech is snide?
- Snide can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce snide?
- Snide is pronounced /snaɪd/.
Words near snide in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: snide (page history and authors); snide (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); snide (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); snide (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). 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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