Synonyms of the word

mordant

• adj. Having or showing a sharp or critical quality; biting; caustic; sarcastic; keen; severe.
• n. Any substance used to facilitate the fixing of a dye to a fibre; usually a metallic compound which reacts…
• n. Any corrosive substance used in etching.
• v. (transitive) To subject to the action of, or imbue with, a mordant.

black

• adj. (of an object) Absorbing all light and reflecting none; dark and hueless.
• adj. (of a place, etc) Without light.
• adj. (sometimes capitalized) Of or relating to any of various ethnic groups having dark pigmentation of the…
• adj. (chiefly historical) Designated for use by those ethnic groups which have dark pigmentation of the skin.
• adj. (card games, of a card) Of the spades or clubs suits. Compare red (“of the hearts or diamonds suit”).
• adj. Bad; evil; ill-omened.
• adj. Expressing menace, or discontent; threatening; sullen.
• adj. Illegitimate, illegal or disgraced.
• adj. (Ireland, informal) Overcrowded.
• adj. (of coffee or tea) Without any cream, milk, or creamer.
• adj. (board games, chess) Of or relating to the playing pieces of a board game deemed to belong to the "black"…
• adj. (typography) Said of a symbol or character that is solid, filled with color. Compare white (“said of a…
• adj. (politics) Related to the Christian Democratic Union of Germany.
• adj. Relating to an initiative whose existence or exact nature must remain withheld from the general public.
• n. (countable and uncountable) The colour/color perceived in the absence of light, but also when no light…
• n. (countable and uncountable) A black dye or pigment.
• n. (countable) A pen, pencil, crayon, etc., made of black pigment.
• n. (in the plural) Black cloth hung up at funerals.
• n. (sometimes capitalised, countable) A person of African, Aborigine, or Maori descent; a dark-skinned person.
• n. (billiards, snooker, pool, with the, countable) The black ball.
• n. (baseball, countable) The edge of home plate.
• n. (Britain, countable) a type of firecracker that is really more dark brown in colour.
• n. (informal, countable) blackcurrant syrup (in mixed drinks, e.g. snakebite and black, cider and black).
• n. (in chess and similar games, countable) The person playing with the black set of pieces.
• n. (countable) Part of a thing which is distinguished from the rest by being black.
• n. (obsolete, countable) A stain; a spot.
• v. To make black, to blacken.
• v. To apply blacking to something.
• v. (Britain) To boycott something or someone, usually as part of an industrial dispute.

caustic

• adj. Capable of burning, corroding or destroying organic tissue.
• adj. (of language, etc.) Sharp, bitter, cutting, biting, and sarcastic in a scathing way.
• n. Any substance or means which, applied to animal or other organic tissue, burns, corrodes, or destroys…
• n. (optics, computer graphics) The envelope of reflected or refracted rays of light for a given surface or…
• n. (mathematics) The envelope of reflected or refracted rays for a given curve.
• n. (informal, chemistry) Caustic soda.

color

• n. (uncountable) The spectral composition of visible light.
• n. (countable) A particular set of visible spectral compositions, perceived or named as a class.
• n. (uncountable) Hue as opposed to achromatic colors (black, white and grays).
• n. (uncountable) Human skin tone, especially as an indicator of race or ethnicity.
• n. (figuratively) Interest, especially in a selective area.
• n. (heraldry) Any of the standard dark tinctures used in a coat of arms, including azure, gules, sable, and…
• n. (in the plural) A standard or banner.
• n. (in the plural) The flag of a nation or team.
• n. (in the plural) Gang insignia.
• n. The system of color television.
• n. (in the plural) An award for sporting achievement, particularly within a school or university.
• n. (military, in the plural) The morning ceremony of raising the flag.
• n. In corporate finance, details on sales, profit margins, or other financial figures, especially while reviewing…
• n. (physics) A property of quarks, with three values called red, green, and blue, which they can exchange…
• n. (typography) The relative lightness or darkness of a mass of written or printed text on a page.
• n. (snooker) Any of the colored balls excluding the reds.
• n. A front or facade: an ostensible truth actually false.
• n. An appearance of right or authority.
• n. (medicine) Skin color noted as: normal, jaundiced, cyanotic, flush, mottled, pale, or ashen as part of…
• adj. Conveying color, as opposed to shades of gray.
• v. To give something color.
• v. (intransitive) To apply colors to the areas within the boundaries of a line drawing using colored markers…
• v. (of a face) To become red through increased blood flow.
• v. To affect without completely changing.
• v. (informal) To attribute a quality to.
• v. (mathematics) To assign colors to the vertices of (a graph) or the regions of (a map) so that no two adjacent…

colour

• n. (uncountable) The spectral composition of visible light.
• n. (countable) A particular set of visible spectral compositions, perceived or named as a class.
• n. (uncountable) Hue as opposed to achromatic colours (black, white and greys).
• n. (uncountable) Human skin tone, especially as an indicator of race or ethnicity.
• n. (figuratively) Interest, especially in a selective area.
• n. (heraldry) Any of the standard dark tinctures used in a coat of arms, including azure, gules, sable, and…
• n. (in the plural) A standard or banner.
• n. The system of colour television.
• n. (in the plural) An award for sporting achievement, particularly within a school or university.
• n. In corporate finance, details on sales, profit margins, or other financial figures, especially while reviewing…
• n. (physics) A property of quarks, with three values called red, green, and blue, which they can exchange…
• n. (typography) The relative lightness or darkness of a mass of written or printed text on a page.
• n. (snooker) Any of the coloured balls excluding the reds.
• n. A front or façade: an ostensible truth actually false.
• n. An appearance of right or authority.
• n. (medicine) Skin colour noted as: normal, jaundice, cyanotic, flush, mottled, pale, or ashen as part of…
• adj. Conveying colour, as opposed to shades of grey.
• v. To give something colour.
• v. (intransitive) To apply colours to the areas within the boundaries of a line drawing using coloured markers…
• v. (of a face) To become red through increased blood flow.
• v. To affect without completely changing.
• v. (informal) To attribute a quality to.
• v. (mathematics) To assign colours to the vertices of (a graph) or the regions of (a map) so that no two…

corrosive

• adj. Eating away; having the power of gradually wearing, hanging, or destroying the texture or substance of…
• adj. Having the quality of fretting or vexing.
• adj. destroying or undermining something gradually.
• n. That which has the quality of eating or wearing away gradually.
• n. Any solid, liquid or gas capable of irreparably harming living tissues or damaging material on contact.

destructive

• adj. Causing destruction; damaging.
• adj. Causing breakdown or disassembly.
• adj. (computing) Lossy; causing irreversible change.

erosive

• adj. Of or pertaining to erosion.
• adj. Causing or tending to cause erosion.

grim

• adj. dismal and gloomy, cold and forbidding.
• adj. rigid and unrelenting.
• adj. ghastly or sinister.
• adj. (Britain, slang) disgusting; gross.

sarcastic

• adj. Containing sarcasm.
• adj. (of a person) Having the personality trait of expressing sarcasm.

vitriolic

• adj. (chemistry, dated) Of or pertaining to vitriol; derived from or resembling vitriol; vitriolous.
• adj. (figuratively) Bitterly scathing, caustic.