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Acridity

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n. bitterness or acerbity

n. An acrid taste or smell.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. The quality of being acrid or pungent; irritant bitterness; extreme bitterness; acrimony.

n. having an acrid smell.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. The quality of being acrid; pungency conjoined with bitterness and corrosive irritation; acridness.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. the quality of being sharply disagreeable in language or tone

n. having an acrid smell

n. extreme bitterness

Word Usage

"In heating the Indian turnip and other corms, it was found that the heat applied must be sufficient to change the character of the starch or the so-called acridity was not destroyed."

Equivalent

acridness

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

disagreeableness smell odor olfactory perception olfactory sensation

Cross Reference

acrimony

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

acridness

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

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