Acerbity

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Sourness or acidness of taste, character, or tone.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Sourness of taste, with bitterness and astringency, like that of unripe fruit.
  • n. Harshness, bitterness, or severity; as, acerbity of temper, of language, of pain
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. Sourness of taste, with bitterness and astringency, like that of unripe fruit.
  • n. Harshness, bitterness, or severity.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Sourness, with roughness or astringency of taste.
  • n. Poignancy or severity.
  • n. Harshness or severity, as of temper or expression.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a rough and bitter manner
  • n. a sharp bitterness
  • n. a sharp sour taste
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    disagreeableness    bitterness    bitter    sour    sourness   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    asperity    pungency    tartness    acidity    saltness   
     
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