What is another word for acerbic?
1500 synonyms found
Pronunciation:
[ ɐsˈɜːbɪk], [ ɐsˈɜːbɪk], [ ɐ_s_ˈɜː_b_ɪ_k]
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Similar words for acerbic:
- acid (adjective)
- acidulous (adjective)
- acrimonious (adjective)
- bitter (adjective)
- bitter, sharp, or sour (adjective)
- caustic (adjective)
- corrosive (adjective)
- cutting (adjective)
- dry (adjective)
- incisive (adjective)
- irritable (adjective)
- mordant (adjective)
- other relevant words (adjective)
- resentful (adjective)
- sarcastic (adjective)
- severe (adjective)
- sharp (adjective)
- sour (adjective)
- trenchant (adjective)
- acerb (noun)
- acerbic (noun)
- other relevant words (noun)
- other synonyms
- other relevant words
- other relevant words (noun)
Synonyms for Acerbic:
adj.
• acid (adjective) • acidulous (adjective) • acrimonious (adjective) • bitter (adjective)- more absinthal,
- more amaroidal,
- more absinthian,
- most unsweetened,
- most amaroidal,
- most absinthal,
- most absinthian,
- un sweetened,
- un-sweetened,
- more unsweetened.
- in goinger,
- In-going,
- in-goinger,
- ingoingest,
- more wounding,
- ingoinger,
- clearcut,
- most wounding,
- in going,
- in goingest,
- in-goingest.
- cross,
- touchy,
- irascible,
- crabbed,
- surly,
- bearish,
- crusty,
- petty,
- bellicose,
- petulant,
- bitchy,
- huffy,
- cranky,
- cantankerous,
- peevish,
- irritable,
- churlish,
- prickly,
- spiteful,
- snappish.
- incisive,
- caustic,
- corrosive,
- mordacious,
- sardonic,
- bitter,
- slashing,
- cutting,
- weisenheiming,
- ingoing,
- Absinthian,
- tart,
- smart alecky,
- acrimonious,
- vitriolic,
- absinthal,
- amaroidal,
- sarcastic,
- clear cut,
- biting,
- trenchant,
- unsweetened,
- dry,
- strongly acid,
- scoffing.
- stung,
- Spleenful,
- offended,
- resentful,
- sore,
- miffed,
- Piqued,
- malevolent,
- discontent,
- vexed,
- vindictive,
- envious,
- embittered,
- galled,
- Huffed,
- antagonistic,
- infuriated,
- hurt,
- irritated.
- more needling,
- more chaffing,
- most needling,
- most chaffing,
- most taunting,
- more snarling,
- smartalecky,
- most twitting,
- more twitting,
- dis-illusioned,
- more weisenheiming,
- most weisenheiming,
- most cussed,
- more taunting,
- needling,
- more cussed,
- dis illusioned,
- most snarling.
- disciplined,
- dour,
- uncompromising,
- authoritarian,
- brusque,
- exacting,
- meticulous,
- obstinate,
- piquant,
- grim,
- fundamental,
- critical,
- demanding,
- chilly,
- icy,
- raw,
- abrupt,
- stern,
- ascetic,
- inflexible,
- brisk,
- strait-laced,
- severe,
- obdurate,
- relentless,
- blunt,
- prudish,
- keen,
- rigorous,
- gruff,
- oppressive,
- cool,
- austere,
- stark,
- acute,
- intense,
- crisp,
- censorious,
- lean,
- curt,
- basic,
- unbending,
- frosty,
- draconian,
- spartan,
- intolerant,
- short,
- correct,
- rigid,
- stringent,
- stiff-necked,
- spare,
- puritanical,
- strict,
- precise,
- hidebound,
- bleak,
- imperial.
n.
• acerb (noun) • acerbic (noun)- blistering,
- acid,
- sour,
- unpleasant,
- venomous,
- sulphurous,
- acrid,
- virulent,
- astringent,
- sharp,
- sulfurous.
Other synonyms:
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•
- stinging,
- vituperative,
- reproachful,
- reproving,
- satirical,
- hard-hitting,
- unfavourable,
- disparaging,
- accusing,
- swingeing,
- tangy,
- acetous,
- Searing,
- ad hominem,
- unfavorable,
- accusatory,
- deprecating,
- condemnatory,
- disapproving.
-
•
- scathing,
- critically,
- savage,
- crushing.
-
•
- negative.
-
•
- truculent.
- fed up,
- free,
- acuate,
- excitable,
- crucify,
- slip,
- minacious,
- beast,
- hot dog,
- bitingly,
- lancinate,
- scotch,
- tinny,
- gustation,
- conviction,
- fundamental frequency,
- make up,
- cauterize,
- tippy,
- hybridize,
- antipathetic,
- run,
- disadvantageous,
- dashing,
- key,
- strong-scented,
- superfluous,
- admonitory,
- battleful,
- flash,
- slighting,
- dark-green,
- barbarian,
- blue,
- greenish,
- get across,
- pettish,
- toffee,
- hotheaded,
- chasten,
- fell,
- barf,
- keister,
- grouse,
- steamed,
- piercingly,
- barbellate,
- bottom,
- downstairs,
- ass,
- bare,
- think,
- lienal,
- quick-tempered,
- nerve,
- quelling,
- high-pressure,
- crown of thorns,
- despotic,
- roughshod,
- loud,
- teetotal,
- rump,
- exigent,
- stark naked,
- hardly,
- rocklike,
- intersect,
- spitefulness,
- insulting,
- gruelling,
- unripened,
- extra,
- cat valium,
- faultfinding,
- hot-tempered,
- magisterial,
- deprecatory,
- toxicant,
- buns,
- boisterous,
- dissolver,
- discontentment,
- bang-up,
- despiteful,
- atrophy,
- furious,
- imply,
- brassy,
- madly,
- savoury,
- brutal,
- unannealed,
- closed,
- scrunch up,
- erratic,
- precipitant,
- film editing,
- imperious,
- lethal,
- outspoken,
- be sick,
- prise,
- tend,
- piggy,
- rimed,
- regurgitate,
- have in mind,
- cool off,
- jeering,
- honk,
- scheming,
- cardinal,
- humbly,
- meanspirited,
- hindquarters,
- tightfistedness,
- devastating,
- acidify,
- tartness,
- rear,
- accusative,
- in no time,
- unawares,
- ghastly,
- uncongenial,
- gaudy,
- neandertal,
- pubic louse,
- bosom,
- track,
- whore,
- maliciousness,
- thorough,
- smashing,
- super acid,
- threatening,
- grueling,
- scurrilous,
- nappy,
- fixed,
- lady of pleasure,
- unappeasable,
- supererogatory,
- bawd,
- entail,
- decline,
- chip,
- clipping,
- belittling,
- down the stairs,
- zooerastia,
- prissy,
- straight-laced,
- crustlike,
- concentrated,
- fierce,
- frustrate,
- primal,
- too-generous,
- nastily,
- quarter,
- abide by,
- disfavor,
- majestic,
- mercilessness,
- deprecative,
- maddened,
- puke,
- hybridizing,
- chintzy,
- cracking,
- spanking,
- offend,
- pain,
- sweep,
- indurate,
- unlikable,
- pissed,
- crinkle,
- pertinacious,
- judgment of conviction,
- four flush,
- tender,
- piggish,
- grating,
- irritative,
- punctilious,
- crossing,
- scanty,
- encrusted,
- minatory,
- ferocious,
- naked as a jaybird,
- queasy,
- live,
- sententious,
- lower-ranking,
- viciousness,
- dot,
- dark,
- rocky,
- new,
- ague,
- thoroughgoing,
- juiceless,
- traditionalist,
- harassed,
- arse,
- injury,
- pallid,
- demon,
- hoggish,
- overgenerous,
- prideful,
- modest,
- immature,
- cheesy,
- giant,
- sinister,
- basely,
- mingy,
- bare-ass,
- ogre,
- jolty,
- imperial beard,
- unadulterated,
- pillory,
- vesication,
- exquisite,
- try out,
- rear end,
- bruise,
- myopic,
- base,
- canonical,
- secant,
- pestiferous,
- smack,
- window pane,
- cockeyed,
- wintry,
- demented,
- hasty,
- techy,
- parsimoniousness,
- even off,
- benumb,
- part with,
- inhumaneness,
- shocking,
- forbidding,
- pump,
- atrocity,
- redundant,
- ill-mannered,
- unregenerate,
- annoyed,
- on a lower floor,
- feral,
- venom,
- royal,
- stand for,
- colossus,
- interbreed,
- chill,
- footling,
- affecting,
- criminal,
- junior-grade,
- wise guy,
- dominating,
- jeer,
- annoying,
- honour,
- intemperate,
- plaguey,
- gist,
- boorish,
- sturdy,
- tyrannical,
- gustatory modality,
- unvoiced,
- substance,
- styptic,
- jaunty,
- oafish,
- dose,
- hoarse,
- throw up,
- queer,
- disgorge,
- savour,
- ominous,
- sense of taste,
- zippy,
- bristled,
- purple,
- disapprobation,
- second,
- unmannerly,
- hotdog,
- flint,
- appreciation,
- fractious,
- sum,
- supercilious,
- raspy,
- wildcat,
- burry,
- kernel,
- execration,
- cut,
- nagging,
- insanely,
- meek,
- warmheartedness,
- not bad,
- calculative,
- inexorable,
- perceptiveness,
- posterior,
- minus,
- rimy,
- potato chip,
- noisome,
- unforgiving,
- baneful,
- wolf,
- dingy,
- unbalanced,
- acutely,
- sensitive,
- fancy woman,
- unornamented,
- firmly,
- cyprian,
- grumpy,
- gripe,
- laconic,
- scoff,
- mettle,
- intend,
- in the altogether,
- mark,
- nonindulgent,
- nippy,
- liverish,
- canonic,
- lowly,
- vesiculation,
- low,
- haughty,
- burn,
- cattie,
- skimpy,
- hybridise,
- envenom,
- fresh,
- nub,
- soft,
- behemoth,
- unappealing,
- fiend,
- gruesome,
- toast,
- hind end,
- try,
- god-awful,
- tail,
- nauseous,
- tight,
- unrepentant,
- hideous,
- needlelike,
- unlikeable,
- dapper,
- abrasive material,
- subaltern,
- embitter,
- dictator,
- dull,
- dictatorial,
- wounding,
- ugly,
- thwartwise,
- prohibitionist,
- pass over,
- shortsighted,
- ticker,
- can,
- nauseated,
- bristly,
- counter,
- off,
- trauma,
- lament,
- leafy vegetable,
- misanthropical,
- chinchy,
- disconfirming,
- bold,
- chilli,
- crease,
- tacky,
- petty larceny,
- derriere,
- depressed,
- frizzy,
- taste perception,
- opprobrious,
- lancinating,
- dispirited,
- angered,
- crazy,
- roughly,
- combustion,
- upchuck,
- engaging,
- lash out,
- enraged,
- rough in,
- tight-laced,
- spiny,
- taunting,
- priggish,
- give up,
- dry out,
- malevolence,
- infra,
- low-spirited,
- ok,
- approximative,
- ornery,
- first harmonic,
- infective,
- electrocution,
- at a lower place,
- tail end,
- regorge,
- husky,
- bilk,
- crossbreed,
- drear,
- newspaper clipping,
- securities and exchange commission,
- baffle,
- chafed,
- spunk,
- ludicrous,
- sourness,
- backside,
- all right,
- life-threatening,
- tough,
- prize,
- delicate,
- edged,
- raffish,
- park,
- frozen,
- altogether,
- stiff,
- putting green,
- arduous,
- signify,
- hybridisation,
- discipline,
- sentence,
- inclination,
- respectfulness,
- incline,
- violative,
- turn,
- back breaker,
- crusted,
- compensate,
- condemnable,
- after part,
- shriek,
- biliary,
- scurvily,
- nipping,
- sheer,
- flashy,
- stinky,
- injurious,
- savory,
- squawk,
- searching,
- tasting,
- aplomb,
- double-dyed,
- bastardly,
- fanny,
- unsanded,
- splenic,
- punk,
- awful,
- brainsick,
- interbreeding,
- jealous,
- kinky,
- curtly,
- punishing,
- plaguy,
- inwardness,
- foul,
- cauterise,
- adjust,
- smutty,
- list,
- secondary,
- red-hot,
- forthright,
- tough-skinned,
- peeved,
- flack,
- bad-tempered,
- petit larceny,
- rough out,
- discernment,
- misanthropic,
- depreciative,
- wound,
- pitilessness,
- set on,
- pachydermatous,
- smart,
- wayward,
- short-change,
- affectionateness,
- crispen,
- sorry,
- parsimony,
- cancer the crab,
- unstinted,
- devil,
- swaggering,
- arctic,
- brute,
- macabre,
- dreary,
- freak,
- harlot,
- vomit,
- cut through,
- pipe up,
- consummate,
- tooshie,
- acidity,
- merry,
- inexpensive,
- annihilative,
- pith,
- rectify,
- pugnacious,
- cunt,
- negatively charged,
- brusk,
- black,
- rancid,
- garish,
- decisive,
- dead,
- sting,
- abstainer,
- high-and-mighty,
- holding,
- hard-and-fast,
- small-minded,
- offense,
- senseless,
- antipathetical,
- hybrid,
- sort out,
- attempt,
- polar,
- gravelly,
- toffy,
- brutish,
- pesky,
- commons,
- blebby,
- mouthful,
- approach,
- mad,
- natty,
- buttocks,
- deleterious,
- slap-up,
- shortstop,
- hybridization,
- fastidious,
- inadequate,
- predilection,
- greens,
- weakened,
- onslaught,
- preposterous,
- bad-mannered,
- green river,
- suddenly,
- backbreaking,
- injured,
- crotchety,
- heart and soul,
- ironical,
- pestilent,
- uncut,
- objurgate,
- thinning,
- pernicious,
- outrageous,
- morose,
- wounded,
- off-key,
- vile,
- bouldery,
- cutting off,
- annihilating,
- onrush,
- suffer,
- poop,
- sharply,
- peckish,
- press clipping,
- illiberal,
- goliath,
- tush,
- deference,
- miserly,
- porcine,
- numb,
- briary,
- wan,
- marrow,
- aggress,
- slump,
- unsavory,
- ache,
- prostitute,
- utter,
- derogative,
- kick,
- prat,
- disturbed,
- picayune,
- victorian,
- laborious,
- wicked,
- sick of,
- chile,
- grave,
- rotten,
- acute accent,
- scant,
- plain,
- fondness,
- flak,
- weisenheimer,
- quizzical,
- tawdry,
- teasing,
- strong,
- rudimentary,
- prim,
- clear-cut,
- accusive,
- primitive,
- refreshful,
- trashy,
- crude,
- toilsome,
- work,
- conniving,
- working girl,
- ruthlessness,
- acidulate,
- cattish,
- menacing,
- even up,
- stonyhearted,
- seat,
- pure,
- ill-bred,
- bare-assed,
- thwart,
- tired of,
- knockout,
- precipitate,
- granitic,
- stubborn,
- sickish,
- slant,
- cool down,
- galling,
- traverse,
- gimcrack,
- knifelike,
- spoil,
- tenderness,
- nerveless,
- underbred,
- vexing,
- sensual,
- horrific,
- center,
- thickened,
- assuredness,
- lowering,
- calloused,
- loutish,
- down,
- sample,
- zesty,
- foil,
- rough-cut,
- lowbred,
- nates,
- belongings,
- preference,
- harshness,
- minginess,
- spare part,
- crispy,
- in the buff,
- icky,
- honor,
- cancer,
- angle,
- bumpy,
- wearing,
- holler,
- rakish,
- injure,
- supernumerary,
- cruelness,
- gullible,
- discontentedness,
- ill-humored,
- chili,
- monstrosity,
- whipping,
- brickly,
- closeness,
- eroding,
- peachy,
- riled,
- underlying,
- spew,
- fussy,
- nitty-gritty,
- gross,
- leaning,
- burning at the stake,
- purge,
- tightness,
- veto,
- serious,
- simmering,
- be given,
- essence,
- counterbalance,
- tatty,
- sharp-tasting,
- spicy,
- unmerciful,
- honey oil,
- overbearing,
- acetify,
- undetectable,
- groovy,
- cruddy,
- heavy,
- cocotte,
- unpitying,
- derogatory,
- to a lower place,
- tyrannous,
- unaffected,
- feisty,
- dissolving agent,
- nettled,
- gloomy,
- square-toed,
- nettlesome,
- wisenheimer,
- woman of the street,
- resolvent,
- mean value,
- meretricious,
- jolting,
- drag through the mud,
- unmannered,
- jejune,
- tetchy,
- light-green,
- crossbreeding,
- vital,
- burred,
- abradant,
- introductory,
- tip,
- sharp-worded,
- round,
- barren,
- solvent,
- desolate,
- yokelish,
- heavily,
- perverse,
- assail,
- ungracious,
- distress,
- teras,
- mockery,
- corrosion,
- carving,
- strident,
- sleazy,
- unsavoury,
- thorny,
- niggardliness,
- straight-from-the-shoulder,
- critique,
- pained,
- wry,
- corking,
- lilliputian,
- gustatory sensation,
- ill,
- calculating,
- inimical,
- vulgar,
- fine,
- unforesightful,
- retch,
- discontented,
- uncivilized,
- central,
- evil,
- surplus,
- ferment,
- snipe,
- common,
- depreciatory,
- attribute,
- severely,
- crisscross,
- jumpy,
- vexatious,
- affection,
- gustatory perception,
- backhand,
- gelid,
- briery,
- terrible,
- taste sensation,
- frank,
- glum,
- covetous,
- piffling,
- ticklish,
- intemperately,
- disgusted,
- get over,
- dismal,
- prop,
- uncouth,
- crabby person,
- plan of attack,
- wild,
- deathly,
- sporting lady,
- deucedly,
- spite,
- beastliness,
- crabmeat,
- tilt,
- bouldered,
- lively,
- bitterly,
- transverse,
- idiotic,
- straitlaced,
- old,
- disconnected,
- poise,
- observe,
- nauseating,
- nifty,
- wearing away,
- castigate,
- dandy,
- peeled,
- literary criticism,
- cat,
- blast,
- wrinkle,
- combative,
- straightlaced,
- ruckle,
- zooerasty,
- livery,
- neanderthal,
- approximate,
- naked,
- disconsolate,
- anguish,
- chastise,
- press cutting,
- set,
- natural,
- unhinged,
- assault,
- rattling,
- redress,
- downhearted,
- wiseacre,
- turned,
- bothersome,
- damage,
- frigid,
- free-spoken,
- crummy,
- loathsome,
- superman,
- unembellished,
- glowering,
- coolheaded,
- vengeful,
- trivial,
- beneath,
- short-circuit,
- persistent,
- insensate,
- little,
- putting surface,
- disfavour,
- vomit up,
- glacial,
- bounderish,
- think of,
- sickening,
- bitterness,
- tonic,
- average,
- deplorable,
- sodomy,
- place,
- unfavorable judgment,
- excess,
- accurate,
- tyrannic,
- crank,
- revengeful,
- pipe,
- neat,
- meat,
- dangerous,
- false,
- transversal,
- brisk up,
- savor,
- erosion,
- loony toons,
- indiscernible,
- refreshing,
- chuck,
- staring,
- traduce,
- absurd,
- dogged,
- cover,
- unkindly,
- raging,
- sang-froid,
- acerbic,
- out of it,
- unstinting,
- everlasting,
- esteem,
- piddling,
- beggarly,
- offence,
- fifth wheel,
- suppression,
- eye,
- crappy,
- brisken,
- atrabilious,
- fleeceable,
- barbarousness,
- onset,
- balmy,
- bully,
- sodding,
- dim,
- thin-skinned,
- butt,
- arrant,
- under,
- malevolency,
- bowelless,
- damaging,
- forgetful,
- hellish,
- profound,
- frizzly,
- scathe,
- voiceless,
- incompatible,
- nonsensical,
- devilishly,
- grievous,
- tenacious,
- zen,
- dimension,
- bracing,
- scrunch,
- unyielding,
- dislike,
- savageness,
- laughable,
- painful,
- viridity,
- pissed off,
- abruptly,
- cussed,
- down in the mouth,
- bellyache,
- flinty,
- warmness,
- cold,
- spiffy,
- harm,
- unrelenting,
- granitelike,
- pestered,
- grisly,
- ascetical,
- even out,
- overhasty,
- lemonlike,
- beef,
- right,
- staple,
- vivid,
- brickle,
- unsmooth,
- spirit,
- value,
- reprehensible,
- span,
- inhuman treatment,
- trim,
- stinking,
- uncivilised,
- core,
- difficult,
- munificent,
- saturnine,
- roiled,
- spue,
- puritanic,
- curse,
- atrociousness,
- cast,
- condemning,
- downcast,
- okay,
- ferociousness,
- drab,
- pane,
- unretentive,
- admonishing,
- cut across,
- regard,
- scratchy,
- centre,
- candid,
- distinct,
- sniffy,
- regal,
- detriment,
- filthy,
- chili pepper,
- bum,
- autocratic,
- lifelessly,
- penchant,
- bossy,
- suffering,
- lordly,
- fiddling,
- greenness,
- spruce,
- bluff out,
- exact,
- boiling,
- fundament,
- light,
- jet,
- crab louse,
- hardhearted,
- badmouth,
- obedience,
- ridiculous,
- great,
- battery-acid,
- harried,
- middle,
- pale,
- alert,
- plainspoken,
- heinousness,
- blackball,
- pestering,
- contrary,
- swell,
- gibelike,
- bloody-minded,
- afflictive,
- niggling,
- tone-beginning,
- lousy,
- behind,
- thin,
- mortal,
- rasping,
- touching,
- surd,
- point-blank,
- dispense with,
- shortly,
- in the raw,
- deaden,
- summary treatment,
- lavish,
- electronegative,
- save,
- birthday suit,
- parky,
- perfect,
- astringent drug,
- hunky-dory,
- poor,
- complete,
- fire,
- faultfinder,
- brutality.
- hard,
- smart aleck,
- pithy,
- scorching,
- discourteous,
- curmudgeonly,
- hateful,
- ill-humoured,
- acerbate,
- unsweet,
- mean,
- malign,
- ill-tempered,
- derisive,
- acidulous,
- very fast,
- irritating,
- terse,
- citrusy,
- hot,
- pickled,
- uncivil,
- moody,
- piercing,
- discriminating,
- sultry,
- peremptory,
- lemony,
- shrewd,
- hostile,
- baleful,
- stifling,
- poignant,
- abusive,
- cynical,
- razor-sharp,
- shrewish,
- sullen,
- poisonous,
- Acescent,
- bitter as gall,
- burning,
- contumelious,
- Escharotic,
- derisory,
- rude,
- withering,
- malefic,
- unkind,
- smart-alecky,
- bilious,
- hurtful,
- Rankled,
- sec,
- Resenting,
- coarse,
- Ridiculing,
- precipitous,
- grouchy,
- dyspeptic,
- scalding,
- razor-like,
- malicious,
- short-tempered,
- lurid,
- stewing,
- disagreeable,
- rapier-like,
- satiric,
- abrasive,
- astute,
- Envenomed,
- smart-mouthed,
- bluff,
- acidulated,
- blistery,
- soured,
- contemptuous,
- sharpened,
- Asperous,
- disdainful,
- sourish,
- stabbing,
- vicious,
- Cavilling,
- shrill,
- rancorous,
- snarky,
- infectious,
- bitterish,
- waspish,
- deadly,
- crabby,
- Tartish,
- acidulent,
- green,
- knife-edged,
- Aspersive,
- cruel,
- penetrative,
- malignant,
- cynic,
- temperamental,
- pointed,
- barbed,
- scornful,
- red hot,
- choleric,
- mocking,
- impolite,
- penetrating,
- rough,
- ironic,
- crab,
- captious,
- nasty,
- snappy,
- testy,
- corroding,
- carping.
How to use "Acerbic" in context?
The word 'acrid' means sharply sour and is derived from the Latin word 'acris' meaning 'sharp'. Acrid substances produce a feeling of Poisoning in the mouth. Acrid often describes the taste and smell of vinegar, bleach, or other chemicals.
An acrid work environment can be very challenging for people. It is full of fumes, dust, and loud noises. It is also full of people who are often demanding and critical. It can be hard to stay positive in an acrid environment. However, if you stay positive and resilient, you will be able to thrive in an acrid environment.
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