Acerbic: alternatives and connections

Having an acid or sharp, biting taste, like vinegar, and the juices of most unripe fruits; acid; tart.

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Having an acid or sharp, biting taste, like vinegar, and the juices of most unripe fruits; acid; tart.

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Not pleasant; not amiable or agreeable; displeasing; offensive.

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Not pleasant; not amiable or agreeable; displeasing; offensive.

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Sourness of taste, with bitterness and astringency, like that of unripe fruit.

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Sourness of taste, with bitterness and astringency, like that of unripe fruit.

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The quality or state of being bitter, sharp, or acrid, in either a literal or figurative sense; implacableness; resentfulness; severity; keenness of…

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The quality or state of being bitter, sharp, or acrid, in either a literal or figurative sense; implacableness; resentfulness; severity; keenness of…

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Sour, bitter, and harsh to the taste, as unripe fruit; sharp and harsh.

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Sour, sharp, or biting to the taste; tart; having the taste of vinegar: as, acid fruits or liquors. Also fig.: Sour-tempered.

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Sharp and harsh, or bitter and not, to the taste; pungent; as, acrid salts.

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Drawing together the tissues; binding; contracting; -- opposed to laxative; as, astringent medicines; a butter and astringent taste; astringent fruit.

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AA turn of the cable which is round the bitts.

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of Blister

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Alt. of Caustical

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Of or pertaining to sulphur.

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Extremely poisonous or venomous; very active in doing injury.

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Of or pertaining to vitriol; derived from, or resembling, vitriol; vitriolous; as, a vitriolic taste. Cf. Vitriol.

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