mordacious

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Biting, causing a physical bite or sting; corrosive
  2. Sharp or caustic in style or tone.
  3. Sharp in intent, sarcastic.
    — And that is really the long and the short of the whole matter, my mordacious friend.
  4. 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.

词形变化

more mordacious comparative most mordacious superlative

词汇关系

衍生词
mordaciously mordacity
相关词
mordant mordancy

词源

From Latin mordax (“given to biting, corrosive”) (from mordere (“to bite, sting”)) + -ious.
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