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acid

About 66.67 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. adjective Sour, sharp, or biting to the taste; tart; having the taste of vinegar.
    acid fruits or liquors
  2. adjective Sour-tempered.
    His response was harsh and acid.
  3. adjective Of or pertaining to an acid; acidic.
    acid soils
  4. adjective Denoting a musical genre that is a distortion (as if hallucinogenic) of an existing genre, as in acid house, acid jazz, acid rock.
  5. noun A sour substance.
  6. noun (chemistry) Any compound which yields H+ ions (protons) when dissolved in water; an Arrhenius acid. Any compound that easily donates protons to a base; a Brønsted acid. Any compound that can accept a pair of electrons to form a covalent bond; a Lewis acid.
  7. noun Any compound which yields H+ ions (protons) when dissolved in water; an Arrhenius acid.
  8. noun Any compound that easily donates protons to a base; a Brønsted acid.

Similar words

bitter acerb acerbic acrid caustic unpleasant blistering venomous virulent acidic

Often followed by

and is in to or solution rain was sequence

Word family

acidly acidness acidnesses acids acidy

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