Synonyms for acerbity
Most common
Definitions
- n. 1
Harshness, bitterness, or severity.
acerbity of temper, of language, of pain
Forms
- Plural
- acerbities → bitternesses, sournesses, acrimonies, tartnesses…
Example sentences
- bitterness What remains in the heart is memory and bitterness.
- sourness Just looking at a lemon makes one feel the sourness in one's mouth.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| acerbity | falling | |
| bitterness | steady | |
| acrimony | rising | |
| sourness | rising | |
| tartness | rising | |
| crabbedness | steady |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 6 letters
- rancor2
- 7 letters
- acidity4, rancour
- 8 letters
- severity4, jaundice2, acrimony4, keenness, sourness, tartness2, asperity4, acridity, acidness
- 9 letters
- animosity5, sharpness2, roughness2, harshness2, virulence3
- 10 letters
- bitterness3, thorniness
- 11 letters
- astringency, crabbedness
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (rancor2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- acerbité