• adj.
    ⦿capable of wounding
    lexical concept
  • a barbed compliment
  • a biting aphorism
  • pungent satire

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Lexical context

wn:part of speechadjective satellite
ontolex:lexicalized sense
  1. enl:barbed
  2. enl:biting
  3. enl:mordacious
  4. enl:nipping
  5. enl:pungent
wn:interlingual indexili:i11393

Other

skos:is in schemeOpen English WordNet
rdfs:label
  • pungent
  • barbedbitingmordaciousnippingpungent