Spenser's sarcastic and joking remarks are often misinterpreted as signs of ambivalence and often taken too seriously.
Source: tatoeba (1931)
Sarcastic
//sɑːˈkæs.tɪk//
Synonyms for "sarcastic" (62 found)
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Closest matches (13)
Strong matches (18)
Related words (31)
Related word relations
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Antonyms
1 entriesSynonyms
2 entriesRelated terms
3 entriesderived
11 entriesderived from
1 entriesrelated to
9 entriessimilar
22 entriesShowing 16 of 22 words.
Translations
54 translations across 26 languages.
Ancient Greek
2 entries- εἰρωνικός adj (Containing sarcasm)
- σαρκαστικός adj (Containing sarcasm)
Arabic
1 entries- ساخر adj (Containing sarcasm)
Belarusian
1 entries- саркасты́чны adj (Containing sarcasm)
Bulgarian
1 entries- саркастичен adj (Containing sarcasm)
Catalan
2 entries- sarcàstic adj (Containing sarcasm)
- sarcàstic adj (Having the personality trait of expressing sarcasm)
Chinese Cantonese
1 entries- 串 adj (Having the personality trait of expressing sarcasm)
Czech
1 entries- sarkastický adj (Containing sarcasm)
Dutch
2 entries- sarcastisch adj (Containing sarcasm)
- sarcastisch adj (Having the personality trait of expressing sarcasm)
Esperanto
2 entries- sarkasma adj (Containing sarcasm)
- sarkasmema adj (Having the personality trait of expressing sarcasm)
Finnish
2 entries- sarkastinen adj (Containing sarcasm)
- sarkastinen adj (Having the personality trait of expressing sarcasm)
French
2 entries- sarcastique adj (Containing sarcasm)
- sarcastique adj (Having the personality trait of expressing sarcasm)
German
2 entries- sarkastisch adj (Containing sarcasm)
- sarkastisch adj (Having the personality trait of expressing sarcasm)
Greek
4 entries- ειρωνικός adj (Containing sarcasm)
- ειρωνικός adj (Having the personality trait of expressing sarcasm)
- σαρκαστικός adj (Containing sarcasm)
- σαρκαστικός adj (Having the personality trait of expressing sarcasm)
Hungarian
4 entries- gunyoros adj (Containing sarcasm)
- gúnyos adj (Containing sarcasm)
- szarkasztikus adj (Containing sarcasm)
- szarkasztikus adj (Having the personality trait of expressing sarcasm)
Indonesian
1 entries- sarkastis adj (Containing sarcasm)
Italian
2 entries- sarcastico adj (Containing sarcasm)
- sarcastico adj (Having the personality trait of expressing sarcasm)
Latin
4 entries- dicax adj (Having the personality trait of expressing sarcasm)
- dicāculus adj (Containing sarcasm)
- nāsūtus adj (Containing sarcasm)
- nāsūtus adj (Having the personality trait of expressing sarcasm)
Polish
2 entries- sarkastyczny adj (Containing sarcasm)
- sarkastyczny adj (Having the personality trait of expressing sarcasm)
Portuguese
2 entries- sarcástico adj (Containing sarcasm)
- sarcástico adj (Having the personality trait of expressing sarcasm)
Russian
3 entries- саркасти́ческий adj (Containing sarcasm)
- саркасти́чный adj (Having the personality trait of expressing sarcasm)
- язви́тельный adj (Containing sarcasm)
Scottish Gaelic
2 entries- sgaiteach adj (Containing sarcasm)
- sgaiteach adj (Having the personality trait of expressing sarcasm)
Spanish
2 entries- sarcástico adj (Containing sarcasm)
- sarcástico adj (Having the personality trait of expressing sarcasm)
Swedish
2 entries- sarkastisk adj (Containing sarcasm)
- sarkastisk adj (Having the personality trait of expressing sarcasm)
Tagalog
2 entries- mapanuya adj (Containing sarcasm)
- mapanuya adj (Having the personality trait of expressing sarcasm)
Turkish
4 entries- alaycı adj (Containing sarcasm)
- alaycı adj (Having the personality trait of expressing sarcasm)
- müstehzi adj (Containing sarcasm)
- müstehzi adj (Having the personality trait of expressing sarcasm)
Ukrainian
1 entries- саркасти́чний adj (Containing sarcasm)
Sample sentences
17 total sentences available.
Tom is very sarcastic.
Source: tatoeba (1164490)
French poet, Alcanter de Brahm, proposed the irony mark (؟) towards the end of the 19th century to indicate a sentence which should be understood as ironic or sarcastic.
Source: tatoeba (1413721)
You don't have to be sarcastic.
Source: tatoeba (1895773)
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