Word Meanings - ACIDULOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Slightly sour; sub-acid; sourish; as, an acidulous tincture. E. Burke. Acidulous mineral waters, such as contain carbonic anhydride.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ACIDULOUS)

• Acid
• Sharp
• acidulous
• acetous
• vinegarish
• Tart
• acid
• sour
• keen
• pungent
• severe
• acrimonious
• biting
• bitter
• harsh
• rude
• irascible

Related words: (words related to ACIDULOUS)

• BITTERWEED
  A species of Ambrosia ; Roman worm wood. Gray.
• SHARPLY
  In a sharp manner,; keenly; acutely. They are more sharply to be chastised and reformed than the rude Irish. Spenser. The soldiers were sharply assailed with wants. Hayward. You contract your eye when you would see sharply. Bacon.
• BITTERSWEET
  1. Anything which is bittersweet. 2. A kind of apple so called. Gower. A climbing shrub, with oval coral-red berries (Solanum dulcamara); woody nightshade. The whole plant is poisonous, and has a taste at first sweetish and then bitter.
• BITUME
  Bitumen. May.
• SHARPER
  A person who bargains closely, especially, one who cheats in bargains; a swinder; also, a cheating gamester. Sharpers, as pikes, prey upon their own kind. L'Estrange. Syn. -- Swindler; cheat; deceiver; trickster; rogue. See Swindler.
• BITTERS
  A liquor, generally spirituous in which a bitter herb, leaf, or root is steeped.
• BITHEISM
  Belief in the existence of two gods; dualism.
• BITARTRATE
  A salt of tartaric acid in which the base replaces but half the acid hydrogen; an acid tartrate, as cream of tartar.
• HARSH
  Having violent contrasts of color, or of light and shade; lacking in harmony. (more info) to G. harsch, Dan. harsk rancid, Sw. härsk; from the same source as 1. Rough; disagreeable; grating; esp.: To the touch."Harsh sand." Boyle. To the taste.
• SHARPIE
  A long, sharp, flat-bottomed boat, with one or two masts carrying a triangular sail. They are often called Fair Haven sharpies, after the place on the coast of Connecticut where they originated.
• ACRIMONIOUS
  1. Acrid; corrosive; as, acrimonious gall. Harvey. 2. Caustic; bitter-tempered' sarcastic; as, acrimonious dispute, language, temper.
• BITTACLE
  A binnacle.
• BITERNATE
  Doubly ternate, as when a petiole has three ternate leaflets. -- Bi*ter"nate*ly, adv. Gray.
• BITTERBUMP
  the butterbump or bittern.
• BITANGENT
  Possessing the property of touching at two points. -- n.
• ACRIMONIOUSNESS
  The quality of being acrimonious; asperity; acrimony.
• BITTOR; BITTOUR
  The bittern. Dryden.
• SHARP-SET
  Eager in appetite or desire of gratification; affected by keen hunger; ravenous; as, an eagle or a lion sharp-set. The town is sharp-set on new plays. Pope.
• BITLESS
  Not having a bit or bridle.
• BITTERWORT
  The yellow gentian , which has a very bitter taste.
• HOBIT
  A small mortar on a gun carriage, in use before the howitzer.
• BITE
  bizan, G. beissen, Goth. beitan, Icel. bita, Sw. bita, Dan. bide, L. 1. To seize with the teeth, so that they enter or nip the thing seized; to lacerate, crush, or wound with the teeth; as, to bite an apple; to bite a crust; the dog bit a man.
• REHIBITION
  The returning of a thing purchased to the seller, on the ground of defect or frand.
• INHABITATE
  To inhabit.
• INHIBITORY
  Of or pertaining to, or producing, inhibition; consisting in inhibition; tending or serving to inhibit; as, the inhibitory action of the pneumogastric on the respiratory center. I would not have you consider these criticisms as inhibitory. Lamb.
• ARBITRESS
  A female arbiter; an arbitratrix. Milton.
• TRILOBITE
  Any one of numerous species of extinct arthropods belonging to the order Trilobita. Trilobites were very common in the Silurian and Devonian periods, but became extinct at the close of the Paleozoic. So named from the three lobes usually seen on
• DISCUBITORY
  Leaning; fitted for a reclining posture. Sir T. Browne.
• PREORBITAL
  a. Situated in front or the orbit.
• CRIBBER; CRIB-BITER
  A horse that has the habit of cribbing.
• EXHIBITION
  The act of administering a remedy. (more info) 1. The act of exhibiting for inspection, or of holding forth to view; manifestation; display. 2. That which is exhibited, held forth, or displayed; also, any public show; a display of works of art,
• COHABITER
  A cohabitant. Hobbes.
• INHABITATIVENESS
  A tendency or propensity to permanent residence in a place or abode; love of home and country.
• HABITURE
  Habitude.
• IMBITTER
  To make bitter; hence, to make distressing or more distressing; to make sad, morose, sour, or malignant. Is there anything that more imbitters the enjoyment of this life than shame South. Imbittered against each other by former contests. Bancroft.
• HENBIT
  A weed of the genus Lamium with deeply crenate leaves.
• EXHIBITIONER
  One who has a pension or allowance granted for support. A youth who had as an exhibitioner from Christ's Hospital. G. Eliot.