Word Meanings - ACID - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Sour, sharp, or biting to the taste; tart; having the taste of vinegar: as, acid fruits or liquors. Also fig.: Sour-tempered. He was stern and his face as acid as ever. A. Trollope. 2. Of or pertaining to an acid; as, acid reaction.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ACID)

• Sharp
• Thin
• fine
• keen
• shrewd
• discerning
• clever
• sarcastic
• acute
• pointed
• aculeated
• penetrating
• pungent
• acid
• shrill
• piercing
• afflictive
• distressing
• harsh
• severe
• cutting
• eager
• active
• ardent
• sore
• hard
• animated
• spirited
• Sour
• Tart
• rancid
• coagulated
• turned
• crabbed
• austere
• morose
• crusty
• churlish
• bitter
• acetous
• acrimonious
• peevish
• sour
• acidulous
• biting
• rude
• irascible

Related words: (words related to ACID)

• RANCIDLY
  In a rancid manner.
• BITE
  bizan, G. beissen, Goth. beitan, Icel. bita, Sw. bita, Dan. bide, L. 1. To seize with the teeth, so that they enter or nip the thing seized; to lacerate, crush, or wound with the teeth; as, to bite an apple; to bite a crust; the dog bit a man.
• SPIRITUOUS
  1. Having the quality of spirit; tenuous in substance, and having active powers or properties; ethereal; immaterial; spiritual; pure. 2. Containing, or of the nature of, alcoholic spirit; consisting of refined spirit; alcoholic; ardent;
• CRABBER
  One who catches crabs.
• DISCERNANCE
  Discernment.
• BITTERWEED
  A species of Ambrosia ; Roman worm wood. Gray.
• COAGULATE
  Coagulated. Shak. (more info) coagulate, fr. coagulum means of coagulation, fr. cogere, coactum, to
• SHARPLY
  In a sharp manner,; keenly; acutely. They are more sharply to be chastised and reformed than the rude Irish. Spenser. The soldiers were sharply assailed with wants. Hayward. You contract your eye when you would see sharply. Bacon.
• BITUME
  Bitumen. May.
• ARDENT
  1. Hot or burning; causing a sensation of burning; fiery; as, ardent spirits, that is, distilled liquors; an ardent fever. 2. Having the appearance or quality of fire; fierce; glowing; shining; as, ardent eyes. Dryden. 3. Warm, applied
• ANIMATING
  Causing animation; life-giving; inspiriting; rousing. "Animating cries." Pope. -- An"i*ma`ting*ly, adv.
• TURNSTONE
  Any species of limicoline birds of the genera Strepsilas and Arenaria, allied to the plovers, especially the common American and European species . They are so called from their habit of turning up small stones in search of mollusks and
• TURNINGNESS
  The quality of turning; instability; tergiversation. Sir P. Sidney.
• SHARPER
  A person who bargains closely, especially, one who cheats in bargains; a swinder; also, a cheating gamester. Sharpers, as pikes, prey upon their own kind. L'Estrange. Syn. -- Swindler; cheat; deceiver; trickster; rogue. See Swindler.
• BITTERS
  A liquor, generally spirituous in which a bitter herb, leaf, or root is steeped.
• CUTTHROAT
  One who cuts throats; a murderer; an assassin.
• TURNING
  The pieces, or chips, detached in the process of turning from the material turned. (more info) 1. The act of one who, or that which, turns; also, a winding; a bending course; a fiexure; a meander. Through paths and turnings often trod
• SPIRITUALIZE
  To extract spirit from; also, to convert into, or impregnate with, spirit. (more info) 1. To refine intellectiually or morally; to purify from the corrupting influence of the world; to give a spiritual character or tendency to; as, to spiritualize
• SHRILL-TONGUED
  Having a shrill voice. "When shrill-tongued Fulvia scolds." Shak.
• AFFLICTIVELY
  In an afflictive manner.
• SELF-ACTIVE
  Acting of one's self or of itself; acting without depending on other agents.
• PUBLIC-SPIRITED
  1. Having, or exercising, a disposition to advance the interest of the community or public; as, public-spirited men. 2. Dictated by a regard to public good; as, a public-spirited project or measure. Addison. -- Pub"lic-spir`it*ed*ly,
• CHYLIFACTIVE
  Producing, or converting into, chyle; having the power to form chyle.
• RE-TURN
  To turn again.
• HOBIT
  A small mortar on a gun carriage, in use before the howitzer.
• REHIBITION
  The returning of a thing purchased to the seller, on the ground of defect or frand.
• INHABITATE
  To inhabit.
• COUNTERACTIVE
  Tending to counteract.
• INHIBITORY
  Of or pertaining to, or producing, inhibition; consisting in inhibition; tending or serving to inhibit; as, the inhibitory action of the pneumogastric on the respiratory center. I would not have you consider these criticisms as inhibitory. Lamb.
• ARBITRESS
  A female arbiter; an arbitratrix. Milton.
• TRILOBITE
  Any one of numerous species of extinct arthropods belonging to the order Trilobita. Trilobites were very common in the Silurian and Devonian periods, but became extinct at the close of the Paleozoic. So named from the three lobes usually seen on
• DISCUBITORY
  Leaning; fitted for a reclining posture. Sir T. Browne.
• PREORBITAL
  a. Situated in front or the orbit.
• CRIBBER; CRIB-BITER
  A horse that has the habit of cribbing.