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acrid |
acridid |
acrididae |
acridity
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| acridness
| acridotheres
| acridotheres tristis
| acrilan
acridity
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun acridity has 3 senses
- acridity(n = noun.cognition) Array - having an acrid smell; Array is a kind of odor, odour, olfactory perception, olfactory sensation, smell
- acridity(n = noun.attribute) acridness - extreme bitterness; "the acridity of alkali" is a kind of bitter, bitterness
- acridity(n = noun.attribute) acridness - the quality of being sharply disagreeable in language or tone; Array is a kind of disagreeableness
Derived form adjective acrid2
CIDE DICTIONARY
acridity, n.
- The quality of being acrid or pungent; irritant bitterness; extreme bitterness; acrimony; as, the acridity of a plant, of a speech. [1913 Webster]
- having an acrid smell. [WordNet 1.5]
THESAURUS
acridity
acerbity, acidity, acidness, acidulousness, acridness, acrimony, acuity, acumination, acuteness, asperity, astringence, astringency, bite, bitingness, bitter pill, bitterness, causticity, causticness, corrosiveness, cuttingness, edge, fierceness, gall, gall and wormwood, grip, harshness, incisiveness, keenness, mordacity, mordancy, mucronation, piercingness, piquancy, poignancy, point, pointedness, prickliness, pungency, rigor, roughness, severity, sharpness, sourness, spinosity, stabbingness, sting, stridency, stringency, tartness, teeth, thorniness, trenchancy, vehemence, violence, virulenceROGET THESAURUS
acridity
Bitterness
N bitterness, acridness, acridity, acrimony, caustic, alkali, acerbity, gall, wormwood, bitters, astringent bitters, Angostura, aromatic bitters, sourness, pungency, alkaloids, turmeric, bitter, bitterish, acrid, acerb, acerbic, bitter as gall, bitter pill to take, sugar coating on a bitter pill.Fetor
N fetor, bad, smell, bad odor, stench, stink, foul odor, malodor, empyreuma, mustiness, rancidity, foulness, stoat, polecat, skunk, assafoetida, fungus, garlic, stinkpot, fitchet, fitchew, fourmart, peccary, acridity, fetid, strong-smelling, high, bad, strong, fulsome, offensive, noisome, rank, rancid, reasty, tainted, musty, fusty, frouzy, olid, olidous, nidorous, smelling, stinking, putrid, suffocating, mephitic, empyreumatic.Acridity
N acridity, astringency, bite, tear gas, smoke, acrid fumes, acrid, biting, astringent, sharp, harsh, bitter, (5) Sound (i) SOUND IN GENERAL.
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