mordant

Speech parts

1. mordant - Noun

2. mordant - Adjective

3. mordant - Verb

4. mordant - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Biting; caustic; sarcastic; keen; severe.

Serving to fix colors.

Any corroding substance used in etching.

Any substance, as alum or copperas, which, having a twofold attraction for organic fibers and coloring matter, serves as a bond of union, and thus gives fixity to, or bites in, the dyes.

Any sticky matter by which the gold leaf is made to adhere.

To subject to the action of, or imbue with, a mordant; as, to mordant goods for dyeing.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

black corrosive grim caustic erosive vitriolic savage scornful critical acid severe sharp pointed cutting harsh
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Antonyms

clement civil comfortable charitable constructive polite
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Hypernyms

color colour coloring material colouring material

Hyponyms

tartar emetic antimony potassium tartrate sodium bichromate sodium dichromate chrome alum

Phrases with the word

tin mordant mordant humour red mordant

Derivatives

mordanted mordanting

Anagrams

dormant

Examples

The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience. James Russell Lowell

The Sarajevans have a very particular world view - a mordant wit coupled with this unbearable sadness and... truckloads of guts, you know. Geraldine Brooks

black humor Source: Internet

a grim joke Source: Internet

grim laughter Source: Internet

fun ranging from slapstick clowning ... to savage mordant wit Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

mordacity Mordad mordancy mordant dye mordant humour mordanting