Snark
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /snɑː(ɹ)k/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Snark is a noun meaning an attitude or expression of mocking irreverence and sarcasm.
Meaning
an attitude or expression of mocking irreverence and sarcasm.
More Meanings
- To express oneself in a snarky fashion.
- (literary) The fictional creature of Lewis Carroll's poem, used allusively to refer to fruitless quest or search.
- (particle physics) A fluke or unrepeatable result or detection in an experiment.
- (mathematics) A graph in which every node has three branches, and the edges cannot be coloured in fewer than four colours without two edges of the same colour meeting at a point.
- (obsolete) To snort.
Example Sentences
Remy said Dad was hunting snarks; at the time, she'd thought it was a euphemism.
She liked his smile. There was neither snark nor megalomania in it, as characterized so many smiles these days.
Cabrera's Valentine's Day monopole detection or some extremely energetic cosmic rays could be examples of snarks.
Other would-be Bright Young People, Lytton Strachey snarked, seemed to have “just a few feathers where brains should be.”
Word Forms
- snarks
- snarking
- snarked
Synonyms for snark
Depending on context, synonyms include sarcasm, snideness.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include snideness, snipe, snigger, snickle, snarl, zing.
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