caustic remark

1. 1.

   witty language used to convey insults or scorn

   “he used sarcasm to upset his opponent”

   “irony is wasted on the stupid”

   “Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own”

   Synonymssarcasmironysatire

   Broaderwit

Questions about caustic remark

What does caustic remark mean?

caustic remark means "witty language used to convey insults or scorn".

What is another word for caustic remark?

Close synonyms include sarcasm, irony, satire. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is caustic remark a common word?

caustic remark is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.