Meaning of ACERBITY
| Pronunciation: | | u'surbitee
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- [n] a sharp and bitter manner
- [n] a sharp sour taste
- [n] a sharp bitterness
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| | Synonyms: | | acrimony, bitterness, jaundice, tartness |
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| | See Also: | | acidity, bitter, disagreeableness, sour, sourness | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \A*cerb"i*ty\, n. [F. acerbit['e], L. acerbitas, fr.
acerbus. See {Acerb}.]
1. Sourness of taste, with bitterness and astringency, like
that of unripe fruit.
2. Harshness, bitterness, or severity; as, acerbity of
temper, of language, of pain. --Barrow.
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| | Related Terms: | | acescency, acid, acidity, acidness, acidulousness, acridity, acridness, acrimony, animosity, asperity, astringence, astringency, bile, bite, bitingness, bitter pill, bitter resentment, bitterness, bitterness of spirit, causticity, causticness, choler, corrosiveness, crabbedness, cuttingness, dourness, dryness, edge, fierceness, gall, gall and wormwood, gnashing of teeth, greenness, grip, hard feelings, harshness, heartburning, hyperacidity, incisiveness, keenness, mordacity, mordancy, piercingness, piquancy, poignancy, point, pungency, rancor, rankling, rigor, roughness, severity, sharpness, slow burn, soreness, sour, sourishness, sourness, spleen, stabbingness, sting, stridency, stringency, subacidity, surliness, tartishness, tartness, teeth, trenchancy, unripeness, unsweetness, vehemence, verjuice, vinegariness, vinegarishness, violence, virulence |
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