acridity

acridity: Synonyms and related words:

acerbity, acidity, acidness, acidulousness, acridness, acrimony, acuity, acumination, acuteness, asperity, astringence, astringency, bite, bitingness, bitter pill, bitterness, causticity, causticness, corrosiveness, cuttingness, edge, fierceness, gall, gall and wormwood, grip, harshness, incisiveness, keenness, mordacity, mordancy, mucronation, piercingness, piquancy, poignancy, point, pointedness, prickliness, pungency, rigor, roughness, severity, sharpness, sourness, spinosity, stabbingness, sting, stridency, stringency, tartness, teeth, thorniness, trenchancy, vehemence, violence, virulence

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Acridity — A*crid i*ty, Acridness Ac rid*ness . The quality of being acrid or pungent; irritant bitterness; extreme bitterness; acrimony; as, the acridity of a plant, of a speech. Syn: acridness [1913 Webster] 2. having an acrid smell. Syn: pungency… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
acridity — acrid ► ADJECTIVE ▪ unpleasantly bitter or pungent. DERIVATIVES acridity noun acridly adverb. ORIGIN from Latin acer sharp, pungent … English terms dictionary
acridity — noun 1. having an acrid smell • Hypernyms: ↑smell, ↑odor, ↑odour, ↑olfactory sensation, ↑olfactory perception 2. extreme bitterness the acridity of alkali • Syn: ↑ … Useful english dictionary
acridity — noun see acrid … New Collegiate Dictionary
acridity — See acrid. * * * … Universalium
acridity — noun a) bitterness or acerbity b) An acrid taste or smell. Syn: acridness … Wiktionary
acridity — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun Irony or bitterness, as of tone: acerbity, acidity, causticity, corrosiveness, mordacity, mordancy, sarcasm, trenchancy. See LAUGHTER, RESPECT … English dictionary for students
acridity — n. quality of being bitter, quality of being irritating; quality of being caustic, acerbity … English contemporary dictionary
acridity — n. See acridness … New dictionary of synonyms
acridity — acrid·i·ty … English syllables

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