Synonyms of the word

acerbity

• n. Sourness of taste, with bitterness and astringency, like that of unripe fruit.
• n. Harshness, bitterness, or severity.

acidity

• n. The quality or state of being acid.
• n. The quality of sour; sourness; tartness; sharpness to the taste, as in the acidity of lemon juice.
• n. (pathology) Excessive acid quality, as in gastric secretions.

acrimony

• n. A sharp and bitter hatred.

bitter

• adj. Having an acrid taste (usually from a basic substance).
• adj. Harsh, piercing or stinging.
• adj. Hateful or hostile.
• adj. Cynical and resentful.
• n. (usually in the plural bitters) A liquid or powder, made from bitter herbs, used in mixed drinks or as…
• n. A type of beer heavily flavored with hops.
• n. (nautical) A turn of a cable about the bitts.
• v. To make bitter.
• n. (computing, informal, in combination) A hardware system whose architecture is based around units of the…

bitterness

• n. The quality of having a bitter taste.
• n. The quality of feeling bitter; acrimony, resentment.

disagreeableness

• n. (uncountable) The state or quality of being disagreeable.
• n. (countable) A disagreeable behaviour, occurrence, etc.

jaundice

• n. (pathology) A morbid condition, characterized by yellowness of the eyes, skin, and urine, whiteness of…
• v. (transitive) To affect with jaundice; to color by prejudice or envy; to prejudice.

sour

• adj. Having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste.
• adj. Made rancid by fermentation, etc.
• adj. Tasting or smelling rancid.
• adj. Peevish or bad-tempered.
• adj. (of soil) Excessively acidic and thus infertile.
• adj. (of petroleum) Containing excess sulfur.
• adj. Unfortunate or unfavorable.
• adj. (music) Off-pitch, out of tune.
• n. The sensation of a sour taste.
• n. A drink made with whiskey, lemon or lime juice and sugar.
• n. (by extension) Any cocktail containing lemon or lime juice.
• n. A sour or acid substance; whatever produces a painful effect.
• v. (transitive) To make sour.
• v. (intransitive) To become sour.
• v. (transitive) To spoil or mar; to make disenchanted.
• v. (intransitive) To become disenchanted.
• v. (transitive) To make (soil) cold and unproductive.
• v. To macerate (lime) and render it fit for plaster or mortar.

sourness

• n. The quality or condition of being sour, usually said of human personalities.

tartness

• n. The characteristic of being tart; sharpness of taste; sourness; bitterness.

thorniness

• n. The property of being thorny (of having thorns or metaphorically being difficult).