| a. | 1. | Biting; given to biting; hence, figuratively, sarcastic; severe; scathing. |
| Adj. | 1. | mordacious - capable of wounding; "a barbed compliment"; "a biting aphorism"; "pungent satire" |
| 2. | mordacious - biting or given to biting; "they deliberately gave me a skittish and mordacious mount" |