Usually means: Harshly critical, extremely severe criticism.
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  1. scathing: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. scathing: Merriam-Webster
  3. scathing: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. scathing: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. scathing: Collins English Dictionary
  6. scathing: Vocabulary.com
  7. Scathing, scathing: Wordnik
  8. scathing: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. scathing: Wiktionary
  10. scathing: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. scathing: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. scathing: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. scathing: Dictionary.com
  14. scathing: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Scathing: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. scathing: Rhymezone
  17. Scathing: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. scathing: FreeDictionary.org
  19. scathing: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. scathing: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (scathing)

▸ adjective:  Harshly or bitterly critical; vitriolic.
▸ adjective:  Harmful or painful; acerbic.

Similar:
vituperative, critical, scorching, barbative, vitriolic, caustic, acerbic, censurious, sardonic, acrimonious, more...

Opposite:
complimentary

Phrases:
scathing irritation, more...

Adjectives:
most, little, terrible, public, few, moral

Colors:
    charcoal,     ash gray,     slate gray,     midnight blue,     deep red, more...



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Similar:
vituperative, critical, scorching, barbative, vitriolic, caustic, acerbic, censurious, sardonic, acrimonious, more...

Opposite:
complimentary

Phrases:
scathing irritation, more...

Adjectives:
most, little, terrible, public, few, moral

Colors:
    charcoal,     ash gray,     slate gray,     midnight blue,     deep red, more...



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