different between acid vs afflictive

English

Etymology

From French acide, from Latin acidus (“sour, acid”), from ace? (“I am sour”). Doublet of agita.

Pronunciation

• enPR: ?s'?d, IPA^(key): /?æs.?d/
• Hyphenation: a?cid
• Rhymes: -æs?d

Adjective

acid (comparative more acid, superlative most acid)

1. Sour, sharp, or biting to the taste; tart; having the taste of vinegar.

2. (figuratively) Sour-tempered.
   • 1864, Anthony Trollope, The Small House at Allington, Smith, Elder & Co., 2nd Edition, Volume 2, page 235,

     His voice was as stern and his face as acid as ever.

   • Little disappointed, then, she turned attention to "Chat of the Social World," gossip which exercised potent fascination upon the girl's intelligence. She devoured with more avidity than she had her food those pretentiously phrased chronicles of the snobocracy […] distilling therefrom an acid envy that robbed her napoleon of all its savour.

3. Of or pertaining to an acid; acidic.
4. (music) Denoting a musical genre that is a distortion (as if hallucinogenic) of an existing genre, as in acid house, acid jazz, acid rock.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:acid.

Synonyms

• acidic

Antonyms

• alkaline
• base

Derived terms

• acid rock
• acid jazz
• acid house

Translations

Noun

acid (countable and uncountable, plural acids)

1. A sour substance.
2. (chemistry) Any of several classes of compound having the following properties:
   1. Any of a class of water-soluble compounds, having sour taste, that turn blue litmus red, and react with some metals to liberate hydrogen, and with bases to form salts.
   2. Any compound that easily donates protons; a Brønsted acid
   3. Any compound that can accept a pair of electrons to form a covalent bond; a Lewis acid
3. (uncountable, slang) LSD, lysergic acid diethylamide.

Antonyms

• alkali
• base

Hyponyms

• See also Thesaurus:acid

Translations

Derived terms

See also

• acerbic
• acro-
• pH

References

• acid in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• -adic, Daic, adic, cadi, caid

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French acide, from Latin acidus (“sour, acid”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [a?t??id]

Adjective

acid m or n (feminine singular acid?, masculine plural acizi, feminine and neuter plural acide)

1. acid, acidic

Declension

Related terms

• aciditate

Noun

acid m (plural acizi)

1. acid

Declension

Derived terms

• acid dezoxiribonucleic

Further reading

• acid in DEX online - Dic?ionare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

English

Etymology

afflict +? -ive

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?kt?v

Adjective

afflictive (comparative more afflictive, superlative most afflictive)

1. That causes physical or mental pain.
   • 1716, Thomas Browne, Christian Morals, 2nd edition edited by Samuel Johnson, London: J. Payne, 1756, Part I, p. 44,^[1]

     […] we consider not sufficiently the good of evils, nor fairly compute the mercies of PROVIDENCE in things afflictive at first hand.

   • 1718, Alexander Pope (translator), The Iliad of Homer, London: Bernard Lintot, Volume 4, Book 14, p. 96,^[2]

     All this from Jove’s afflictive Hand we bear:

     Who, far from Argos, wills our Ruin here.

   • 1718, Matthew Prior “Henry and Emma” in Poems on Several Occasions, London: Jacob Tonson, p. 229,^[3]

     But canst Thou, tender Maid, canst Thou sustain

     Afflictive Want, or Hunger’s pressing Pain?

   • 1847, Anne Brontë (pseudonym Acton Bell), Agnes Grey, Chapter 3,^[4]

     In my childhood I could not imagine a more afflictive punishment than for my mother to refuse to kiss me at night: the very idea was terrible.

Derived terms

• afflictively

Translations

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.flik.tiv/
• Homophone: afflictives

Adjective

afflictive

1. feminine singular of afflictif