Dictionary Definition
acerbity
Noun
1 a sharp bitterness
2 a sharp sour taste [syn: tartness]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
Noun
- Sourness of taste, with bitterness and astringency, like that of unripe fruit.
- Harshness, bitterness, or severity; as, acerbity of temper, of language, of pain
Translations
sourness
- German: Sauerkeit
harshness
- German: Bitterkeit
- ttbc French: amertume
- ttbc Interlingua: acerbitate
- ttbc Italian: amarezza
- ttbc Latin: acerbitas
- ttbc Spanish: amargura
References
- Webster 1913
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
acescency, acid, acidity, acidness, acidulousness, acridity, acridness, acrimony, animosity, asperity, astringence, astringency, bile, bite, bitingness, bitter pill,
bitter resentment, bitterness, bitterness of
spirit, causticity,
causticness,
choler, corrosiveness, crabbedness, cuttingness, dourness, dryness, edge, fierceness, gall, gall and wormwood, gnashing
of teeth, greenness,
grip, hard feelings,
harshness, heartburning, hyperacidity, incisiveness, keenness, mordacity, mordancy, piercingness, piquancy, poignancy, point, pungency, rancor, rankling, rigor, roughness, severity, sharpness, slow burn, soreness, sour, sourishness, sourness, spleen, stabbingness, sting, stridency, stringency, subacidity, surliness, tartishness, tartness, teeth, trenchancy, unripeness, unsweetness, vehemence, verjuice, vinegariness, vinegarishness, violence, virulence