Sharp or biting to the tongue or integuments; bitterly pungent; irritating: as, acrid salts.Figuratively, severe; virulent; violent; stinging: as, “acrid temper,” Cowper, Charity.n. An acrid poison: as, “a powerful acrid,” Pereira, Mat. Med.n. One of a class of morbific substances supposed by the humorists to exist in the humors.