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say it: SKAY-thing
scathing is an adjective meaning "marked by harshly abusive criticism". It is pronounced /ˈskeɪðɪŋ/ — SKAY-thing. It carries one recorded sense.
marked by harshly abusive criticism
“his scathing remarks about silly lady novelists”
“her vituperative railing”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for scathing come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.