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MORDACIOUS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does mordacious mean?
• MORDACIOUS (adjective)
The adjective MORDACIOUS has 2 senses:
1. capable of wounding
2. biting or given to biting
Familiarity information: MORDACIOUS used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Capable of wounding
Synonyms:
barbed; biting; mordacious; nipping; pungent
Context example:
pungent satire
Similar:
sarcastic (expressing or expressive of ridicule that wounds)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Biting or given to biting
Context example:
they deliberately gave me a skittish and mordacious mount
Similar:
dangerous; unsafe (involving or causing danger or risk; liable to hurt or harm)
Derivation:
mordacity (a disposition to biting)
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