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Extremely ruthless or cruel.
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- Extremely ruthless or cruel.
- Plain and direct, although distressing in effect
- Disagreeably precise or penetrating:
Deliberately seeking to inflict pain and suffering; enjoying others' suffering; without mercy or pity
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- Deliberately seeking to inflict pain and suffering; enjoying others' suffering; without mercy or pity
- Causing or characterized by severe pain, suffering, or distress:
- Disposed to inflict pain or suffering:
Unpleasant, uncomfortable, or hostile to survival:
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- Unpleasant, uncomfortable, or hostile to survival:
- Unpleasantly coarse and rough to the touch:
- Severe, cruel, or exacting:
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Sharp, bitter, or harsh in temper, language, etc.
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- Sharp, bitter, or harsh in temper, language, etc.
- Sharp or biting, as in character or expression:
- Sour or bitter tasting; acid.
Any of a class of compounds that form hydrogen ions when dissolved in water, and whose aqueous solutions react with bases and certain metals to form salts. Acids turn blue litmus paper red and have a pH of less than 7. Their aqueous solutions have a sour taste.
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- Any of a class of compounds that form hydrogen ions when dissolved in water, and whose aqueous solutions react with bases and certain metals to form salts. Acids turn blue litmus paper red and have a pH of less than 7. Their aqueous solutions have a sour taste.
- (Geology) Containing a large proportion of silica:
- Having the characteristics of an acid.
(Chemistry) Having a pH less than 7, or being sour, or having the strength to neutralize alkalis, or turning a litmus paper red.
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- (Chemistry) Having a pH less than 7, or being sour, or having the strength to neutralize alkalis, or turning a litmus paper red.
- Tending to form an acid.
- Acid.
Caustic in language or tone:
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- Caustic in language or tone:
- Bitter or sarcastic in speech, etc.
- Sharp, bitter, stinging, or irritating to the taste or smell
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Cutting; sharp
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- Cutting; sharp
- Injuring or capable of injuring the feelings; caustic:
- Sarcastic; caustic
Capable of burning, corroding, dissolving, or eating away by chemical action.
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- Capable of burning, corroding, dissolving, or eating away by chemical action.
- Given to making caustic remarks:
- Cutting or sarcastic in utterance; biting
Gradually destructive; steadily harmful:
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- Gradually destructive; steadily harmful:
- Eating away; having the power of gradually wearing, hanging, or destroying the texture or substance of a body; as the corrosive action of an acid.
- Bitingly sarcastic; cutting; acid
Injuring or capable of injuring the feelings of others:
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- Injuring or capable of injuring the feelings of others:
- Capable of or designed for incising, shearing, or severing:
- Sharply penetrating; piercing:
Given to biting; biting.
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- Given to biting; biting.
- Biting, sharp, acrid, or caustic
Pointed:
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- Pointed:
- Producing a sharp sensation of taste or smell; acrid
- Penetrating, biting, or caustic:
Briskly or keenly cold and cutting:
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- Briskly or keenly cold and cutting:
- Having clear form and detail:
- Strongly affecting the senses of smell and taste:
(Informal) Huge
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- (Informal) Huge
- Severe; merciless; violent
- Bitingly critical or satiric:
- Having the capacity to sting.
Forceful and clear; penetrating:
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- Forceful and clear; penetrating:
- (Archaic) Cutting; sharp
- Caustic; cutting:
Fierce; cruel; savage; ferocious
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- Fierce; cruel; savage; ferocious
- Disposed to violence; ferocious or cruel.
- Disposed or eager to fight or engage in hostile opposition; belligerent.
(Chemistry): Of or pertaining to vitriol; derived from, or resembling, vitriol; vitriolous; as, a vitriolic taste.
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respect
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Find another word for scathing. In this page you can discover 24 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for scathing, like: brutal, cruel, harsh, severe, acerbic, acid, acidic, acrid, astringent, biting and caustic.
