acid

Adjective

Adjective

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A word that describes or modifies a noun or pronoun.

Comparative

acider

Superlative

acidest

Noun

Noun

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A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

Plural

acids

Adjective

Adjective

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A word that describes or modifies a noun or pronoun.

1. 1.Sour, sharp, or biting to the taste; tart; having the taste of vinegar.

2. 2.Sour-tempered.

   • His response was harsh and acid.
   • His voice was as stern and his face as acid as ever.
   • It must be admitted that Challenger is provocative in the last degree, but Summerlee has an acid tongue, which makes matters worse.

3. 3.Of or pertaining to an acid; acidic.

   • Like other nyssas, it is in nature a creature of swampy places and looks loveliest where massed close to water and reflected in it, but justifies itself elsewhere if the soil is moist and acid, succeeding in wet clay.

4. 4.Denoting a musical genre that is a distortion (as if hallucinogenic) of an existing genre, as in acid house, acid jazz, acid rock.

Noun

Noun

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A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

1. 1.A sour substance.

2. 2.Any compound which yields H+ ions (protons) when dissolved in water; an Arrhenius acid.

3. 3.Any compound that easily donates protons to a base; a Brønsted acid.

4. 4.Any compound that can accept a pair of electrons to form a covalent bond; a Lewis acid.

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Synonyms

• bitter