The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word CAUSTIC , but the solution may also be ACERBIC which is one of the most recent solution (2021 in Wall Street Journal).
Scathing crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| CAUSTIC | 17 % | 7 |
| POISONPEN | 17 % | 9 |
| ACERB | 17 % | 5 |
| ACERBIC | 17 % | 7 |
| MORDANT | 17 % | 7 |
| ACID | 17 % | 4 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Scathing
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- vituperative
- critical
- bitter
- sharp
- violent
- vitriolic
- unsparing
- acerbic
- trenchant
- sarcastic
- dismissive
- caustic
Crossword Answer definitions
CAUSTIC noun- Any substance or means which, applied to animal or other organic tissue, burns, corrodes, or destroys it by chemical action; an escharotic.
- The envelope of reflected or refracted rays of light for a given surface or object.
- The envelope of reflected or refracted rays for a given curve.
- Caustic soda.
- Capable of burning, corroding or destroying organic tissue.
- (of language, etc.) Sharp, bitter, cutting, biting, and sarcastic in a scathing way.
More crossword clues leading to the same solutions
Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution
More clues leading to the result CAUSTIC
- Biting or corrosive
- Incisively sarcastic
- Tart
- Like a sharp sense of humor
- Scathing
- Hardly conciliatory
- Biting
- Corrosive
- Sharp-tongued.
- Biting.
More clues leading to the result POISONPEN
More clues leading to the result ACERB
More clues leading to the result ACERBIC
- Bitter, as in taste
- Sour
- Bitter tasting
- Biting
- Like grapefruits
- Tart
- Bitterly harsh
- Harsh, as criticism
- Harsh
- Biting, as criticism
More clues leading to the result MORDANT
- Sharply sarcastic, as wit
- Biting
- Sarcastic.
- Cutting.
- Bitterly sarcastic.
- Sarcastic, as speech, wit, etc.
- Scathing
- Caustic in manner
- Bitingly sarcastic
- Sharply sarcastic