Another word for acid
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Adjective
Having a taste characteristic of that produced by acids
- Having a sharp pungent taste; sour.
- Sharp or bitter in tone or meaning; cutting.
- having a tang, or pleasantly sharp flavor
- Having a taste characteristic of that produced by acids; sharp, tart, or tangy.
- Made acid or rancid by fermentation.
- Having the characteristics of fermentation or rancidity; tasting or smelling of decay.
- Free from liquid or moisture:
- Having or characterized by little or no rain:
- Marked by the absence of natural or normal moisture:
- Slightly sour in taste or in manner.
- Of, relating to, or producing acetic acid or vinegar.
- Having an acetic taste; sour-tasting.
- Sour or bitter tasting; acid.
- Sharp or biting, as in character or expression:
See also:So sharp as to cause mental pain
- Of, similar to, or derived from a vitriol.
- Bitterly scathing; caustic:
- Disposed or eager to fight or engage in hostile opposition; belligerent.
- Showing or expressing bitter opposition or hostility; aggressively defiant:
- Disposed to violence; ferocious or cruel.
- Forceful and clear; penetrating:
- Caustic; cutting:
- Distinct; clear-cut:
- Bitingly critical or satiric:
- Dashing; pelting:
- Brilliant; intense:
- Having a thin edge or a fine point suitable for or capable of cutting or piercing.
- Having clear form and detail:
- Terminating in an edge or a point:
- Bitterly denunciatory; harshly critical:
- Harmful or painful; injurious.
- Affecting the organs of taste or smell with a sharp acrid sensation.
- Penetrating, biting, or caustic:
- To the point; sharp:
- Bitingly sarcastic:
- Incisive and trenchant:
- Bitingly painful.
- Given to biting; biting.
- Caustic; sarcastic.
- Capable of or designed for incising, shearing, or severing:
- Sharply penetrating; piercing:
- Injuring or capable of injuring the feelings of others:
- Having the capability or tendency to cause corrosion:
- Gradually destructive; steadily harmful:
- Spitefully sarcastic:
- Capable of burning, corroding, dissolving, or eating away by chemical action.
- Sarcastic or cutting; biting:
- Given to making caustic remarks:
- Causing a stinging sensation; nipping:
- Injuring or capable of injuring the feelings; caustic:
- Of or relating to insects and certain other animals that wound the skin with a sting, mouthparts, or fangs.
- Tending to draw together or constrict tissues; styptic.
- Sharp and penetrating; pungent or severe:
- A substance or preparation, such as alum, that draws together or constricts body tissues and is effective in stopping the flow of blood or other secretions.
- Unpleasantly sharp, pungent, or bitter to the taste or smell.
- Caustic in language or tone:
- Acid.
- Tending to form an acid.
- Sour or bitter tasting; acid.
- Sharp or biting, as in character or expression:
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Another word for acid
Modifier
Having the characteristics of an acid
- Causing a stinging sensation; nipping:
- Injuring or capable of injuring the feelings; caustic:
- Of or relating to insects and certain other animals that wound the skin with a sting, mouthparts, or fangs.
- Having a sharp pungent taste; sour.
- Sharp or bitter in tone or meaning; cutting.
- Having a thin edge or a fine point suitable for or capable of cutting or piercing.
- Having clear form and detail:
- Terminating in an edge or a point:
See also:Having the properties of an acid
- Acid.
- Tending to form an acid.
- Capable of dissolving a substance; solvent.
- A solvent.
- Losing cohesion or unity.
- (psychology) Having disorganized psychological and behavioral processes.
- An agent, such as heat, radiation, or a chemical, that destroys, neutralizes, or inhibits the growth of disease-carrying microorganisms.
- Serving to disinfect.
- Causing a stinging sensation; nipping:
- Injuring or capable of injuring the feelings; caustic:
- Of or relating to insects and certain other animals that wound the skin with a sting, mouthparts, or fangs.
- Present participle of eat away.
- Present participle of rust.
- Present participle of oxidize.
- Present participle of erode.
- Causing erosion:
- Having the capability or tendency to cause corrosion:
- Gradually destructive; steadily harmful:
- Spitefully sarcastic:
Cutting or sarcastic
- Tending to draw together or constrict tissues; styptic.
- Sharp and penetrating; pungent or severe:
- A substance or preparation, such as alum, that draws together or constricts body tissues and is effective in stopping the flow of blood or other secretions.
- Having barbs.
- Cutting; stinging:
- Having a thin edge or a fine point suitable for or capable of cutting or piercing.
- Having clear form and detail:
- Terminating in an edge or a point:
- Causing a stinging sensation; nipping:
- Injuring or capable of injuring the feelings; caustic:
- Of or relating to insects and certain other animals that wound the skin with a sting, mouthparts, or fangs.
Noun
A sour substance
*A drug
- Of, characterized by, or generating hallucinations, distortions of perception, altered states of awareness, and occasionally states resembling psychosis.
- Suggestive or evocative of an altered or hallucinatory state of perception:
- A drug, such as LSD or mescaline, that produces psychedelic effects.
- A substance that induces hallucination.
- A crystalline compound, C20 H25 N3 O, derived from lysergic acid and used as a powerful hallucinogenic drug.
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