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Webster 1913 Edition


Acrid

Ac′rid

,
Adj.
[L.
acer
sharp; prob. assimilated in form to
acid
. See
Eager
.]
1.
Sharp and harsh, or bitter and not, to the taste; pungent;
as,
acrid
salts
.
2.
Causing heat and irritation; corrosive;
as,
acrid
secretions
.
3.
Caustic; bitter; bitterly irritating;
as,
acrid
temper, mind, writing
.
Acrid poison
,
a poison which irritates, corrodes, or burns the parts to which it is applied.

Webster 1828 Edition


Acrid

AC'RID

,
Adj.
[L. accr.]
Sharp; pungent; bitter; sharp or biting to the taste; acrimonious; as acrid salts.

Definition 2024


acrid

acrid

English

Adjective

acrid (comparative acrider or more acrid, superlative acridest or most acrid)

  1. Sharp and harsh, or bitter and not to the taste; pungent.
    • 2013 June 29, Unspontaneous combustion”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 29:
      Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia. The cheapest way to clear logged woodland is to burn it, producing an acrid cloud of foul white smoke that, carried by the wind, can cover hundreds, or even thousands, of square miles.
    Sodium polyacrylate is an acrid salt.
  2. Causing heat and irritation; corrosive.
    The bombardier beetle sprays acrid secretions to defend itself.
  3. Caustic; bitter; bitterly irritating.
    That man has an acrid temper.

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  • delectable, delicious, tasteful

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