Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Expressing or marked by sarcasm.
- adj. Given to using sarcasm.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Characterized by sarcasm; bitterly cutting; scornfully severe; taunting.
Wiktionary
- adj. Containing sarcasm.
- adj. of a person Having the personality trait of expressing sarcasm.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Expressing, or expressed by, sarcasm; characterized by, or of the nature of, sarcasm; given to the use of sarcasm; bitterly satirical; scornfully severe; taunting.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. expressing or expressive of ridicule that wounds
Etymologies
- sarc(asm) + -astic, as in enthusiastic. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“A few years ago, a clever webhead created a site advocating the use of what he called the sarcastic font.”
“Ann says or, more accurately, implies that the word "sarcastic" is code for step back, little lady.”
“In Hebrew those passages have a distinct voice, a unique identifiable tone characterized as sarcastic and prone to the use of word puns.”
“Further, your attempt at being either insulting or sarcastic is duly noted, and not at all impressive.”
“1: 59 PM gomer said ... for once i gut nuthin 'sarcastic ta say. so, i dont care what she looks like now. i know what she looked like then. boy do i.”
“Additionally, it would have created two solid couples with one single, sarcastic womanizing outcast (Barney) — CBS already has RULES OF ENGAGEMENT, and let’s face it, single and sarcastic is all David Spade knows.”
“I don’t know why you feel that being insulting and sarcastic is productive.”
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“She ended the text with what police described as a sarcastic "awesome.”
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“Palin isnt going to be there in the debates to hold his hand and if Mccain performs like he did during the beneath the radar repub primary debates aka sarcastic, angry and all over the shop on issues I doubt many of us will remember Palin in say Jan 09”
“Go to johnmccain. com, where the lead item is what can best be described as a sarcastic Valentine's Day eCard declaring that "The media is in LOVE" with Obama.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘sarcastic’.
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casts
broadcast, outcast, narrowcast, castaways, Jocasta, castellation, castling, conacaste, forecasts, downcast, dodecastyle, dicast and 99 more...
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INTERP - speeches can be...
adequate, adroit, blunt, blurred, committed, divisive, exacerbating, fitting, hollow, lengthy, murky, pronounced and 123 more...
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Broadcastic
Broadcastic Advertising for Businesses
Broadcastic, narrowcasting, casting-on-the-fly, plastercasting, soarcasting, flingbring, polltoll, narrowcastic, thrownpone, incast, stamp-outic, anchors asway and 16 more...
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ash vocab
flippant, fillip, expiate, explicate, extirpate, facile, florid, fealty, allegiance, fetid, febrile, pert and 134 more...
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wakcy's Words
apocalypse, interlude, drome, absolution, atrocity, ruse, pristine, mason, reparable, deteriorate, pyramid, hipster and 283 more...
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The Medley of Me
A jumble of words, sometimes contradictory, that add up to me. I'll probably be adding to this list for some time, because I'm a very complex individual. ;P
male, long-haired, big-eyed, writer, artist, guitarist, songsmith, talespinner, pilot, wannabe barnstormer, gypsy, cuddlesome and 209 more...
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MiaLuthien's list ♥
gambit, prehensile, coquetry, impunity, genuflect, ensconce, clavicle, delude, beget, castigate, life caching, convoluted and 478 more...
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The Sog Collection
My big word list.
chaos, flaccid, empirical, flotsam, cacophony, grumble, assuage, awe, romance, mortality, coalesce, fortuitous and 3282 more...
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Miss Sunshine
she's such a joy.
bereaved, bitter, cheerless, dejected, depressed, despairing, despondent, disconsolate, dismal, distressed, doleful, downcast and 405 more...
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GRE AWA
escalating, vehement, vehemence, hostility, paparazzi, regime, irrespective, scoop, exaggerated, overblown, unfetter, scrupulous and 272 more...
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feeling words
twitterpated, loquacious, ambiguous, pensive, sluggish, anxious, adventurous, curious, abandoned, absent-minded, abrasive, abused and 653 more...
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suzyg's Words
brandish, recompence, shopping, dichotomy, paradigm, reverse osmosis, anyway, despite, drunk, degenerate, insipid, grateful and 438 more...
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My Self-Descriptors: A Mirror of Text
Read this list, and read it well. When you finish, you'll know me better than my mother. That is, unless she reads this list too.
libertarian, unorthodox, unfinished, sincere, frugal, lanky, introspective, critical, laid-back, taciturn, lexiphilic, kindly and 115 more...
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Kavitha's Words
avarice, mellow, mahogany, serendipity, plush, vengeance, catalyst, plausible, penury, meticulous, sarcastic, ninja and 100 more...
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What David Foster Wallace circled in ...
ablative, ablaut, abulia, acephalous, ACTH, adit, adumbrate, agrapha, ailanthus, aleatory, alfresco, algolagnia and 474 more...
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SAT
abandon,extreme e..., abash,to humiliate, abate,to lessen, abbreviate,to sho..., abridge, abdicate,to forma..., aberration,depart..., abnormality, abet,to encourage, abhor,to hate, abide,to follow o..., abject,utterly ho... and 2228 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for sarcastic.
sarahlena irony May 15, 2009