Synonyms for biting
ˈbaɪ tɪŋbit·ing

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1. biting

   Acid, sour, and bitter agree in being contrasted with sweet, but the two former are sharply distinguished from the latter. Acid or sour is the taste of vinegar or lemon-juice; bitter that of quassia, quinine, or strychnine. Acrid is nearly allied to bitter. Pungent suggests the effect of pepper or snuff on the organs of taste or smell; as, a pungent odor. Caustic indicates the corroding effect of some strong chemical, as nitrate of silver. In a figurative sense, as applied to language or character, these words are very closely allied. We say a sour face, sharp words, bitter complaints, caustic wit, cutting irony, biting sarcasm, a stinging taunt, harsh judgment, a tart reply. Harsh carries the idea of intentional and severe unkindness, bitter of a severity that arises from real or supposed ill treatment. The bitter speech springs from the sore heart. Tart and sharp utterances may not proceed from an intention to wound, but merely from a wit recklessly keen; cutting, stinging, and biting speech indicates more or less of hostile intent, the latter being the more deeply malicious. The caustic utterance is meant to burn, perhaps wholesomely, as in the satire of Juvenal or Cervantes. Compare MOROSE.

   Synonyms:
   acerb, acetous, acid, acidulated, acidulous, acrid, acrimonious, bitter, caustic, cutting, harsh, irate, pungent, savage, sharp, sour, stinging, tart, vinegarish, virulent

   Antonyms:
   dulcet, honeyed, luscious, nectared, saccharine, sweet

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1. biting

   Synonyms:
   pungent, censorious, piercing, gnawing, sarcastic, sardonic, trenchant

   Antonyms:
   pleasant, genial, soothing, complacent, flattering

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1. barbed, biting, nipping, pungent, mordaciousadjective

   capable of wounding

   "a barbed compliment"; "a biting aphorism"; "pungent satire"

   Synonyms:
   briary, nipping, prickly, barbed, setose, mordacious, snappy, crisp, pungent, burred, nippy, bristly, barbellate, setaceous, briery, thorny, acrid, burry, bitter, spiny, bristled, frosty

   Antonyms:
   unsarcastic, painless

2. biting, bitteradjective

   causing a sharply painful or stinging sensation; used especially of cold

   "bitter cold"; "a biting wind"

   Synonyms:
   virulent, nipping, barbed, vitriolic, mordacious, acerbic, sulphurous, acrimonious, caustic, acrid, sulfurous, blistering, acid, pungent, bitter, acerb

   Antonyms:
   unsarcastic, painless

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1. bitingadjective

   Synonyms:
   pungent, piquant, hot, sharp, peppery, stinging, high-flavored, high-seasoned

2. bitingadjective

   Synonyms:
   severe, sarcastic, cutting, caustic

3. bitingadjective

   Synonyms:
   cold, freezing, nipping, piercing

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1. bitingadjective

   Synonyms:
   stinging, sharp, cutting, sarcastic, caustic, scathing, bitter, satirical, pungent, piquant, nipping, blasting, erosive, corrosive, acrid, mordant

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1. Barack Obama:

   Part of the challenge of living in this friendly neighborhood is you feel like you don't have to pay attention to it. It's not biting at you every day, and as a result you say to yourself, 'Everything is fine here. Let me go spend time in other places where the fires are burning more intensely,' i understand that instinct, but I think that instinct is misguided because if we develop an even stronger base of cooperation and shared values in this hemisphere, it makes our ability as a collective group of nations even stronger to be able to bring peace and prosperity and stability in the rest of the world.

2. Noah Rose:

   Even if you got rid of the human-biting mosquitoes in one place, there's a huge diversity of mosquitoes in a habitat. They're really good at solving problems and surviving in different habitats.

3. Boris Nemtsov:

   He was seen as a handsome, charismatic, open and energetic man. An artistic orator with a biting tongue ... And of course Boris will be missed like spice, which in small doses can give a rich taste.

4. Philip Sidney:

   Thus, with child to speak, and helpless in my throes, biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite: Fool! said my muse to me, look in thy heart, and write.

5. Advocate General Priit Pikamae:

   A passenger biting other passengers and attacking the cabin crew trying to calm him down, resulting in the deviation of a Lisbon-Fortaleza flight to the nearest airport in order to disembark this passenger and his baggage, leading to a flight delay, falls under the concept of extraordinary circumstances.