sarcastic

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   Containing sarcasm.

   a sarcastic quip

2. 2
   adj

   Having the personality trait of expressing sarcasm.

   Her eyes slanted a little... and were sometimes full of fiery determination and sometimes dull and opaque. Her expression was never altogether amiable; was often, indeed, distinctly sullen, or, when she was animated, sarcastic.

3. 3
   adj

   expressing or expressive of ridicule that wounds

Etymology

Either from sarcasm + -astic or from French sarcastique, from French sarcasme, from Late Latin sarcasmus, ultimately from Ancient Greek σαρκασμός (sarkasmós, “sarcasm”), itself from Ancient Greek σάρξ (sárx, literally “meat, flesh”).