Scathing

Definition: Scathing

Scathing

Adjective

1. Marked by harshly abusive criticism; "his scathing remarks about silly lady novelists"; "her vituperative railing".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "scathing" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1817. (references)

Synonym: Scathing

Crosswords: Scathing

Expressions using "scathing": give smb. a scathing look ♦ scathing criticism ♦ scathing look. Additional references.

Albanian

i ashpër (argute, austere, biting, bluff, bluffy, Brant, bristly, brusque, churlish, coarse, crude, ding-dong, dour, draconian, draconic, gravelly, grim, gruff, hard, harsh, ill, ill natured, inclement, keen, malevolent, pipy, raucous, rigid, rigorous, rough, rough and ready, rude, savage, scabrous, scratchy, severe, shaggy, slashing, smart, stern, strict, tough, truculent, uncharitable, unkind, unmerciful, violent, wiry), dërrmues (crushing, knockdown, knockout, overwhelming, sledgehammer). (various references)

Arabic 

‏نظر بسخط, ‏لاذع (acerb, acid, acrid, acrimonious, biting, bitter, bitterly, burning, caustic, cutting, harsh, hot, keen, mordant, nippy, peppery, piquant, poignant, pungent, rough, salty, sarcastic, savory, savoury, scorching, sharp, sharp tongued, smarting, snappish, snappy, spicy, spiteful, stinging, tart, waspish). (various references)

Bulgarian 

унищожителна критика (scathing criticism, scorcher), унищожителен поглед (scathing look). (various references)

Chinese 

騰騰 (steaming). (various references)

Czech

uštìpaèný (acrimonious, derisive, mocking, sarcastic, sneering, snide), kousavý (acerbic, acrid, barbed, bitchy, biting, caustic, cutting, dry, pointed, snappy, tart, vitriolic, waspish), jízlivý (acerbic, blistering, catty, sneering, snide, spiteful, unkind, waspish, wry). (various references)

Farsi 

سوزان (Ablaze, Acrimonious, Alight, Ardent, Fervid, Perfervid, Torrid), داغدار. (various references)

French

injurieuxse, injurieux, cinglant, caustique, acerbe. (various references)

German

vernichtend (annihilating, crushing, damning, demolishing, destroying, destructively, devastating, fatal, internecine, perishing, scathingly, shattering, slashing, sound, withering). (various references)

Greek 

δριμύσ (acrid, acrimonious, astringent, biting, caustic, hard, harsh, keen, poignant, pungent, severe, slashing, smart, snappish, snappy, tart, trenchant), δηκτικόσ (acrimonious, biting, caustic, cutting, mordant, nippy, poignant, pointed, snappish, stinging), δηκτικός (insulting). (various references)

Hebrew 

פו�'ע (derogatory, hurtful, injurious, invidious, prejudicial), � וקב (incisive, penetrating, perforating, piercing, poignant, trenchant). (various references)

Hungarian

maró (acrimonious, biting, caustic, corrodent, corrosive, lashing, mordant, nipping, poignant, shrewd, virulent), kegyetlen (atrocious, bloody, brutal, brutish, cruel, dispiteous, felon, ferocious, grim, hard, heinous, inhuman, insensate, merciless, pitiless, ruthless, sanguinary, savage, tigerish, tyrannical). (various references)

Indonesian

menggigit (bite, nibble). (various references)

Italian

pungente (acrid, biting, bitter, cutting, nipping, nippy, piercing, poignant, pointed, prickly, pungent, racy, sharp, stinging), offensivo (abusive, abusively, aggressive, hurtful, insulting, objectionable, offensive, offensively, rude, slighting), mordace (biting, cutting, mordant, poignant, ratty), caustico (caustic, mordacious, mordant), aspro (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acrid, acrimonious, acute, bitter, foxy, gruff, harsh, hoarse, lurid, rough, rugged, sharp, smart, sour, stark, tart, uncharitable). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

痛烈 (bitter, severe). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

つうれつ (bitter, severe). (various references)

Manx

nieunagh (bitter as enemy;snakiness, bitter;snakiness, bleak, bleak of wind, deadly, poisonous, toxic, venomous, virulent, vitriolic), birragh (pointed, sharp, spiky, tapered). (various references)

Pig Latin

athingscay.(various references)

Portuguese

severo (austere, bad, bitter, blue, censorious, close, closet, cornered, dour, grim, grueling, gruelling, hard, hard-faced, hard-grained, harsh, inclement, iron-bound, joggly, keen, pointed, relentless, rigid, rigorous, rough, rugged, severe, smart, squint-eyed, stern, stiff, strait, straitlaced, strict, stringent), sarcástico (acrid, backhanded, ironic, pungent, sarcastic, sardonic, sneering, squint-eyed), mordaz (acrid, bitter, clear-sighted, double-tongued, incisive, keen, mordacious, pepper, peppery, piquant, poignant, pointed, pungent, sarcastic, scorching, sharp, slashing, squint-eyed, stinging, tart, trenchant, virulent), fulminante (detonator, fulminant, primer, squint-eyed, thundering), cruel (atrocious, barbaric, bitter, bloody, boarish, candle-wick, cruel, dark, fell, felon, fierce, grim, hard-hearted, heartless, inhuman, iron, merciless, pitiless, ruffian, ruthless, severe, shrewish, squint-eyed, tigerish, tigrish, truculent, uncharitable, unfeeling, unkind, unmerciful, wicked, wolfish), contundente (bruising, pointed, sarcastic, scorching, slashing, squint-eyed, stinging). (various references)

Romanian

usturãtor (acrid, biting, burning, cutting, mordant, sarcastic, scorching, shrewd, smart, smarting, stinging), nimicitor (crushing, destructive, shattering), distrugãtor (blighter, destroyer, destructive, destructor, devastating, disruptive, exterminator, killing, wrecker), caustic (acerb, acid, acidulous, acrid, acrimonious, biting, caustic, mordant, personal, pungent, pungently, scorching). (various references)

Russian 

уничтожающий, хлесткий, злой (bad tempered, bad-tempered, blackhearted, black-hearted, cattish, evil, evil-minded, fractious, ill disposed, ill natured, ornery, puckish, squinteyed, surly, unkind, vicious, vixenish), едкий (acerb, acerbic, acrid, biting, caustic, corrosive, mordant, poignant, pungent, scalding, sulphurous, tart, vitriolic). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

oštar (acidulous, acrid, acrimonious, argute, austere, biting, brisk, brusque, cutting, keen, piercing, racy, sharp, sharp cut, strident, strong, trenchant, twang), jedak (acidulous, acrid, acrimonious, astringent, biting, bitter, caustic, sharp, sour, vitriolic). (various references)

Spanish

ultrajante (abusive, abusively, offensively), mordaz (acid, acrimonious, barbed, biting, blistering, cutting, incisive, mordacious, mordant, nipping, peppery, poignant, pointed, pungent, scorching, searing, sharp), cáustico (acrid, acrimonious, biting, caustic, mordacious, vitriolic), acerbo (acerb, acerbic, bitter, harsh, savage, sharp, sour). (various references)

Swedish

dräpande (crushing, telling). (various references)

Turkish

kırıcı (breaker, cutting, disobliging, galling, harsh, injurious, invidious, offending, scorching, shocking, stinging, unkind), iğneli (barbed, mordacious, mordant, pointed, sarcastic, spinose, spinous, with a needle, with needles, with pins), dokunaklı (acidulous, affective, barbed, biting, eloquent, expressive, incisive, mordant, moving, pathetic, poignant, pointed, pungent, sour, speaking, touching, trenchant), acı (ache, acidulous, acrid, affliction, anguish, biting, bitter, brackish, cutting, distress, gnawing, grief, grievous, harsh, heartbreak, hot, hurt, incisive, lamentable, misery, nippy, pain, painful, pang, peppery, poignant, pungent, sad, sardonic, severe, shrill, sorrow, sorrowful, splitting, sting, suffering, tragic, trenchant, vitriolic, worry). (various references)

Ukrainian

їдкий (acid, acrid, acrimonious, caustic, corrosive, nipping, poignant, scalding), нищівний (crushing, destructive, sledge hammer, smashing). (various references)

Vietnamese 

gay gắt (acidly, cutthroat, cutting, waspish), cay độc (cutting, darkly), ác (evil, malevolent, smashing, unkind). (various references)

Welsh

deifiol (scorching). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "scathing": scathingly. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Scathing" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cathing, Mcthing, scaltheen, scateing, scating, scrathing, seathing. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: actings, cashing, casting, chasing, gnathic, hasting.

-2 letters: aching, acting, actins, antics, ashing, canthi, casing, chains, changs, chants, chinas, chints, gainst, giants, hating, nastic, nights, sating, shanti, snatch, snitch, stanch, things.

-3 letters: acing, actin, agist, aitch, angst, antic, antis, cains, canst, cants, chain, chang, chant, chats, chias, china, chins, chits, gains, gaits, ghast, ghats.

+1 letter: hatchings, nightcaps, snatching, stanching, starching, teachings, yachtings.

+2 letters: chastening, chastising, escheating, hatchlings, scathingly, scratching, staunching, stomaching.

+3 letters: charmingest, despatching, dispatching, latchstring, mismatching, mispatching, misteaching.

+4 letters: candlelights, gemeinschaft, haircuttings, interchanges, latchstrings, matchmakings, roughcasting, schematizing, scintigraphy, stenographic, watchmakings.

+5 letters: archegoniates, backstitching, blacksmithing, crosshatching, disenchanting, flowchartings, gemeinschafts, histaminergic, interchangers, laughingstock, orchestrating, phagocytosing, schismatizing, scintigraphic, shortchanging, stickhandling, switchbacking.