- acerb, acerbic, acid, acrid, bitter, blistering, caustic, sulfurous, sulphurous, venomous, virulent, vitriolic - harsh or corrosive in tone; "an acerbic tone piercing otherwise flowery prose"; "a barrage of acid comments"; "her acrid remarks make her many enemies"; "bitter words"; "blistering criticism"; "caustic jokes about political assassination, talk-show hosts and medical ethics"; "a sulfurous denunciation"
Antonym: pleasant (indirect, via unpleasant)
- blistering, blistery - hot enough to raise (or as if to raise) blisters; "blistering sun"
Antonym: cold (indirect, via hot)
- blistering, hot, red-hot - very fast; "a blistering pace"; "got off to a hot start"; "in hot pursuit"; "a red-hot line drive"
Antonym: slow (indirect, via fast)
- scathing, blistering, scalding, vituperative - marked by harshly abusive criticism; "his scathing remarks about silly lady novelists"; "her vituperative railing"
Antonym: uncritical (indirect, via critical)
- vesiculation, vesication, blistering - the formation of vesicles
--1 is a kind of organic process, biological process
- blister, vesicate - get blistered; "Her feet blistered during the long hike"
--1 is one way to swell, swell up, intumesce, tumefy, tumesce
Sample sentence:Derived form: noun blister1
Did his feet blister?
- blister, scald, whip - subject to harsh criticism; "The Senator blistered the administration in his speech on Friday"; "the professor scaled the students"; "your invectives scorched the community"
--2 is one way to attack, round, assail, lash out, snipe, assault
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s somebody
- blister - cause blisters to from on; "the tight shoes and perspiration blistered her feet"
--3 is one way to change, alter, modify
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something