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acid
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)
- Sour, sharp, or biting to the taste; tart; having the taste of vinegar.
- (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.
- 1864, Anthony Trollope, The Small House at Allington, Smith, Elder & Co., 2nd Edition, Volume 2, page 235,
- Of or pertaining to an acid; acidic.
- (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)
- A sour substance.
- (chemistry) Any of several classes of compound having the following properties:
- 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.
- Any compound that easily donates protons; a Brønsted acid
- Any compound that can accept a pair of electrons to form a covalent bond; a Lewis acid
- (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)
- acid, acidic
Declension
Related terms
- aciditate
Noun
acid m (plural acizi)
- acid
Declension
Derived terms
- acid dezoxiribonucleic
Further reading
- acid in DEX online - Dic?ionare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)
acid From the web:
- what acid is in your stomach
- what acid is in vinegar
- what acids make up a protein
- what acid reflux
- what acid is hi
- what acid causes gout
- what acid is in batteries
- what acid is good for acne
severe
English
Etymology
From Middle French, from Latin severus (“severe, serious, grave in demeanor”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /s??v??/ (US) IPA(key): /s??v?r/
- Rhymes: -??(?)
Adjective
severe (comparative severer or more severe, superlative severest or most severe)
- Very bad or intense.
- Strict or harsh.
- a severe taskmaster
- Sober, plain in appearance, austere.
- a severe old maiden aunt
Synonyms
Antonyms
- (very bad or intense): mild
- (very bad or intense): minor
- (strict or harsh): lenient
Derived terms
- severely (adverb)
- severity (noun)
- severeness (noun)
Translations
Further reading
- severe in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- severe in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- severe at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- Reeves, everse, reeves, servee
Esperanto
Adverb
severe
- severely
Related terms
- severa
Italian
Adjective
severe
- feminine plural of severo
Latin
Verb
s?v?re
- third-person plural perfect active indicative of ser?
Adjective
sev?re
- vocative masculine singular of sev?rus
References
- severe in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- severe in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- severe in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
Serbo-Croatian
Noun
severe (Cyrillic spelling ??????)
- vocative singular of sever
severe From the web:
- what severe weather
- what severe depression feels like
- what severe means
- what severe anxiety feels like
- what severe adhd looks like
- what severe weather is in florida
- what severe stress does to the body
- what severe anemia feels like
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