Antonyms for satiric

Grammar : Adj

Spell : suh-tir-i-kuhl or suh-tir-ik

Phonetic Transcription : səˈtɪr ɪ kəl or səˈtɪr ɪk

Definition of satiric

Origin : c.1500, from French satirique, from Late Latin satiricus, from satira (see satire (n.)). Earlier (late 14c.) as a noun meaning "a writer of satires."

adj sarcastic

Example sentences :

"Yes, you will," Adams returned, not noticing that his son's inflection was satiric.
Extract from : « Alice Adams » by Booth Tarkington

This statement is not to be accepted as a satiric fable, but as a literal fact.
Extract from : « Recollections » by David Christie Murray

One of his "Hundred Voices" has something of this satiric note.
Extract from : « Life Immovable » by Kostes Palamas

The ethos of the satiric persona was something they could not understand.
Extract from : « Two Poems Against Pope » by Leonard Welsted

Her own father had a rich fund of humour, but it was satiric.
Extract from : « Sons and Lovers » by David Herbert Lawrence

The richness of his satiric perception was too great to permit of speech.
Extract from : « The House with the Green Shutters » by George Douglas Brown

They resemble Juvenal, or the satiric touches in Timon of Athens.
Extract from : « The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb » by Charles Lamb

This work, as might be anticipated, was a satiric attack on the clergy of that day.
Extract from : « The Life of Daniel De Foe » by George Chalmers

The "Dunciad" is a monument of satiric wit, or genius belittled.
Extract from : « Genius in Sunshine and Shadow » by Maturin Murray Ballou

His temperament was dramatic, passionate, satiric and witty.
Extract from : « Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 14, Slice 3 » by Various

Synonyms for satiric

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