Synonyms of the word acid


ACIDACERB - ACERBIC - ACIDIC - ACIDULENT - ACIDULOUS - ACRID - BITTER - BLISTERING - CAUSTIC - COMPOUND - DOSE - DOT - PANE - SOUR - SULFUROUS - SULPHUROUS - SUPERMAN - UNPLEASANT - VENOMOUS - VIRULENT - VITRIOLIC

acid

  • adj. Sour, sharp, or biting to the taste; tart; having the taste of vinegar.
  • adj. (figuratively) Sour-tempered.
  • adj. Of or pertaining to an acid; acidic.
  • adj. (music) Denoting a musical genre that is a distortion (as if hallucinogenic) of an existing genre, as…
  • n. A sour substance.
  • n. (chemistry) Any of several classes of compound having the following properties:-.
  • n. (slang) lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD).

acerb

  • adj. Sour, bitter, and harsh to the taste, as unripe fruit.
  • adj. Sharp and harsh in expressing oneself.

acerbic

  • adj. Tasting sour or bitter.
  • adj. Sharp, harsh, biting.

acidic

  • adj. (chemistry) Having a pH less than 7, or being sour, or having the strength to neutralize alkalis, or turning…
  • adj. (mineralogy) Containing a high percentage of silica; opposed to basic.
  • adj. Of or relating to acid; having the character of an acid.

acidulent

  • adj. Having an acid quality; sour; acidulous.

acidulous

  • adj. Slightly sour; sub-acid; sourish.

acrid

  • adj. Sharp and harsh, or bitter and not to the taste; pungent.
  • adj. Causing heat and irritation; corrosive.
  • adj. Caustic; bitter; bitterly irritating.

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…

blistering

  • v. present participle of blister.
  • adj. Causing blisters.
  • adj. Very hot.
  • adj. Harsh or corrosive.
  • adj. Very aggressive.
  • adj. Very fast.
  • n. (medicine, veterinary) The practice of forming blisters on the skin, to promote blood flow and aid healing.

caustic

  • adj. Capable of burning, corroding or destroying organic tissue.
  • adj. (of language, etc.) Sharp, bitter, cutting, biting, and sarcastic in a scathing way.
  • n. Any substance or means which, applied to animal or other organic tissue, burns, corrodes, or destroys…
  • n. (optics, computer graphics) The envelope of reflected or refracted rays of light for a given surface or…
  • n. (mathematics) The envelope of reflected or refracted rays for a given curve.
  • n. (informal, chemistry) Caustic soda.

compound

  • n. an enclosure within which workers, prisoners, or soldiers are confined.
  • n. a group of buildings situated close together, e.g. for a school or block of offices.
  • adj. composed of elements; not simple.
  • adj. (music) An octave higher than originally (i.e. a compound major second is equivalent to a major ninth).
  • n. Anything made by combining several things.
  • n. (chemistry, dated) A substance made from any combination elements.
  • n. (chemistry) A substance formed by chemical union of two or more ingredients in definite proportions by…
  • n. (linguistics) A lexeme that consists of more than one stem; compound word; for example laptop, formed…
  • v. (transitive) To form (a resulting mixture) by combining different elements, ingredients, or parts.
  • v. (transitive) To assemble (ingredients) into a whole; to combine, mix, or unite.
  • v. (transitive) To modify or change by combination with some other thing or part; to mingle with something…
  • v. (transitive, law) To settle by agreeing on less than the claim, or on different terms than those stipulated.
  • v. (transitive) To settle amicably; to adjust by agreement; to compromise.
  • v. (intransitive) To come to terms of agreement; to agree; to settle by a compromise; usually followed by…
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To compose; to constitute.
  • v. (transitive) To worsen a situation.

dose

  • n. A measured portion of medicine taken at any one time.
  • n. The quantity of an agent (not always active) substance or radiation administered at any one time.
  • n. A venereal infection.
  • v. to administer a dose.
  • v. to prescribe a dose.

dot

  • n. A small spot.
  • n. (grammar) A punctuation mark used to indicate the end of a sentence or an abbreviated part of a word;…
  • n. A diacritical mark comprised of a small opaque circle above or below any of various letters of the Latin…
  • n. (mathematics) A symbol used for separating the fractional part of a decimal number from the whole part,…
  • n. One of the two symbols used in Morse code.
  • n. (obsolete) A lump or clot.
  • n. Anything small and like a speck comparatively; a small portion or specimen.
  • n. (cricket, informal) A dot ball.
  • v. (transitive) To cover with small spots (of some liquid).
  • v. (transitive) To add a dot (the symbol) or dots to.
  • v. To mark by means of dots or small spots.
  • v. To mark or diversify with small detached objects.
  • prep. Dot product of the previous vector and the following vector.
  • n. (US, Louisiana) A dowry.

pane

  • n. An individual sheet of glass in a window.
  • n. (computing, graphical user interface) A layer in the build-up of a GUI.
  • n. Alternative spelling of peen.
  • n. A division; a distinct piece or compartment of any surface.
  • n. A square of a checkered or plaid pattern.
  • n. One of the openings in a slashed garment, showing the bright colored silk, or the like, within; hence,…
  • n. (architecture) A compartment of a surface, or a flat space; hence, one side or face of a building.
  • n. A subdivision of an irrigated surface between a feeder and an outlet drain.
  • n. One of the flat surfaces, or facets, of any object having several sides.
  • n. One of the eight facets surrounding the table of a brilliant-cut diamond.

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.

sulfurous

  • adj. Containing sulfur.
  • adj. (chemistry) Of, or relating to sulfur, especially in its lower oxidation state.

sulphurous

  • adj. (chiefly British spelling) Alternative spelling of sulfurous.

superman

  • n. (chiefly philosophy) An imagined superior type of human being representing a new stage of human development;…
  • n. A person of extraordinary or seemingly superhuman powers.

unpleasant

  • adj. Not pleasant.

venomous

  • adj. Full of venom.
  • adj. Toxic; poisonous.
  • adj. Noxious; evil.
  • adj. Malignant; spiteful; hateful.
  • adj. Producing venom (poison usually injected into an enemy or prey by biting or stinging) in glands or accumulating…
  • adj. powerful.

virulent

  • adj. (chiefly medicine, of a disease or disease-causing agent) Highly infectious, malignant, or deadly.
  • adj. Hostile to the point of being venomous; intensely acrimonious.

vitriolic

  • adj. (chemistry, dated) Of or pertaining to vitriol; derived from or resembling vitriol; vitriolous.
  • adj. (figuratively) Bitterly scathing, caustic.

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