Acridity

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The quality of being acrid; pungency conjoined with bitterness and corrosive irritation; acridness.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The quality of being acrid or pungent; irritant bitterness; extreme bitterness; acrimony.
  • noun. having an acrid smell.
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  • noun. bitterness or acerbity
  • noun. An acrid taste or smell.
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  • noun. the quality of being sharply disagreeable in language or tone
  • noun. having an acrid smell
  • noun. extreme bitterness
    • Word Usage
    "In heating the Indian turnip and other corms, it was found that the heat applied must be sufficient to change the character of the starch or the so-called acridity was not destroyed."
    cross-reference
    acrimony  
    Equivalent
    acridness  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    bitter  bitterness  disagreeableness  odor  odour  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    earthiness  elastomers  hypercriticism  incisiveness  lubricator  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    acerbity  acidity  acidness  acidulousness  acridness  
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