Synonyms for acerb
- adjective
All synonyms
Adjective
1. Bitter — sour, bitter, and harsh to the taste, such as unripe fruit
bitter, acerbic, acid, sour, caustic, virulent, acrimonious, astringent, acrid, blistering, vitriolic, sulphurous UK, sulfurous US, tart, corrosive, pungent
Definitions
- adj. 1
Sour, bitter, and harsh to the taste, such as unripe fruit.
Related words
- Word family
- acerbate acerbically acerbity
Example sentences
- acid Acid rain in drinking water affects human health.
- bitter The wronged parties couldn't help but feel bitter.
- sour Those grapes look sweet, but in fact they're sour.
- acerbic Tom has a way of making acerbic comments that can sting.
By length
- 4 letters
- acid2, sour2, tart1
- 5 letters
- acrid2
- 6 letters
- bitter2
- 7 letters
- caustic2, pungent2, acerbic3
- 8 letters
- virulent3
- 9 letters
- corrosive3, vitriolic4, sulfurous
- 10 letters
- blistering3, astringent3, sulphurous
- 11 letters
- acrimonious5
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (acid2 = 2 syllables).