Word Meanings - ACRIMONIOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Acrid; corrosive; as, acrimonious gall. Harvey. 2. Caustic; bitter-tempered' sarcastic; as, acrimonious dispute, language, temper.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ACRIMONIOUS)

• Bitter
• Harsh
• sour
• sharp
• tart
• acrimonious
• sarcastic
• severe
• sad
• afflictive
• intense
• stinging
• pungent
• acrid
• cutting
• Rough
• grating
• rugged
• abusive
• soul-jarring
• rancorous
• rigorous
• discordant
• gruff
• Sour
• Tart
• rancid
• coagulated
• turned
• harsh
• crabbed
• austere
• morose
• crusty
• acid
• churlish
• bitter
• acetous
• peevish
• Sharp
• acidulous
• keen
• biting
• rude
• irascible

Related words: (words related to ACRIMONIOUS)

• ROUGHING-IN
  The first coat of plaster laid on brick; also, the process of applying it.
• RANCIDLY
  In a rancid manner.
• 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.
• ROUGHT
  imp. of Reach.
• CRABBER
  One who catches crabs.
• ROUGHHEWN
  1. Hewn coarsely without smoothing; unfinished; not polished. 2. Of coarse manners; rude; uncultivated; rough-grained. "A roughhewn seaman." Bacon.
• STINGBULL
  The European greater weever fish , which is capable of inflicting severe wounds with the spinous rays of its dorsal fin. See Weever.
• BITTERWEED
  A species of Ambrosia ; Roman worm wood. Gray.
• COAGULATE
  Coagulated. Shak. (more info) coagulate, fr. coagulum means of coagulation, fr. cogere, coactum, to
• STING RAY; STINGRAY
  Any one of numerous rays of the family Dasyatidæ, syn. Trygonidæ, having one or more large sharp barbed dorsal spines, on the whiplike tail, capable of inflicting severe wounds. Some species reach a large size, and some, esp., on the American
• ROUGHLEG
  Any one of several species of large hawks of the genus Archibuteo, having the legs feathered to the toes. Called also rough- legged hawk, and rough-legged buzzard. Note: The best known species is Archibuteo lagopus of Northern Europe,
• 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.
• BITUME
  Bitumen. May.
• GRATICULE
  A design or draught which has been divided into squares, in order to reproduce it in other dimensions.
• ROUGHINGS
  Rowen.
• ACRIDLY
  In an acid manner.
• TURNSTONE
  Any species of limicoline birds of the genera Strepsilas and Arenaria, allied to the plovers, especially the common American and European species . They are so called from their habit of turning up small stones in search of mollusks and
• TURNINGNESS
  The quality of turning; instability; tergiversation. Sir P. Sidney.
• 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.
• MIGRATION
  The act of migrating.
• RE-TURN
  To turn again.
• HOBIT
  A small mortar on a gun carriage, in use before the howitzer.
• CONTRADISTINGUISH
  To distinguish by a contrast of opposite qualities. These are our complex ideas of soul and body, as contradistinguished. Locke.
• DRUGGET
  perh, the same word as drogue drug, but cf. also W. drwg evil, bad, A coarse woolen cloth dyed of one color or printed on one side; generally used as a covering for carpets. By extension, any material used for the same purpose.
• REHIBITION
  The returning of a thing purchased to the seller, on the ground of defect or frand.
• DRUGGER
  A druggist. Burton.
• WASTING
  Causing waste; also, undergoing waste; diminishing; as, a wasting disease; a wasting fortune. Wasting palsy , progressive muscular atrophy. See under Progressive.
• INTEGRATOR
  That which integrates; esp., an instrument by means of which the area of a figure can be measured directly, or its moment of inertia, or statical moment, etc., be determined.
• 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.
• DISINTERESTING
  Uninteresting. "Disinteresting passages." Bp. Warburton.
• INDISTINGUISHABLE
  Not distinguishable; not capable of being perceived, known, or discriminated as separate and distinct; hence, not capable of being perceived or known; as, in the distance the flagship was indisguishable; the two copies were indisguishable in form
• ARBITRESS
  A female arbiter; an arbitratrix. Milton.