Synonyms for acrimony
Most common
Definitions
- n. 1
A sharp and bitter hatred.
Her acrimony for her neighbors manifests itself with shouting and stomping.
Forms
- Plural
- acrimonies → bitternesses, animosities, rancors, enmities…
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Acrimony in speech or temper is like a corrosive acid; it springs from settled character or deeply rooted feeling of aversion or unkindness. One might speak with momentary asperity to his child, but not with acrimony, unless estrangement had begun.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- hatred Hatred is never appeased by hatred in this world.
- bitterness What remains in the heart is memory and bitterness.
- animosity Then that animosity is being passed on down to us?
- enmity The incident earned Dan the enmity of his boss.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| acrimony | rising | |
| hatred | rising | |
| bitterness | steady | |
| animosity | rising | |
| enmity | steady | |
| corrosiveness | falling |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 4 letters
- edge1, bile1
- 5 letters
- spite1, venom2
- 6 letters
- hatred2, enmity3, rancor2
- 7 letters
- rancour
- 8 letters
- severity4, jaundice2, keenness, sourness, tartness2, asperity4, acerbity
- 9 letters
- animosity5, sharpness2, harshness2, virulence3, malignity
- 10 letters
- opposition4, bitterness3
- 13 letters
- corrosiveness
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (venom2 = 2 syllables).