different between shrewd vs acid

English

Alternative forms

• shrewde (obsolete)

Etymology

c. 1300, Middle English schrewed (“depraved; wicked”, literally “accursed”), from schrewen (“to curse; beshrew”), from schrewe, schrowe, screwe (“evil or wicked person/thing”), from Old English scr?awa (“wicked person”, literally “biter”). Equivalent to shrew +? -ed. More at shrew.

The sense of "cunning" developed in early 16^th c., gradually gaining a positive connotation by 17^th c.

Pronunciation

• enPR: shro?od, IPA^(key): /??u?d/

• Rhymes: -u?d

Adjective

shrewd (comparative shrewder, superlative shrewdest)

1. Showing clever resourcefulness in practical matters.
2. Artful, tricky or cunning.
3. (informal) Streetwise, street-smart.
4. Knowledgeable, intelligent, keen.
5. Nigh accurate.

6. Severe, intense, hard.

7. Sharp, snithy, piercing.

8. (archaic) Bad, evil, threatening.
   • 1596-97, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act III Scene ii:

     Portia:

     There are some shrewd contents in yon same paper,

     That steals the colours from Bassanio's cheek:

     Some dear friend dead; else nothing in the world

     Could turn so much the constitution

     Of any constant man. What, worse and worse!— […]

9. (obsolete) Portending, boding.
10. (archaic) Noxious, scatheful, mischievous.
11. (obsolete) Abusive, shrewish.
12. (archaic) Scolding, satirical, sharp.
    • 1599, William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, Act II Scene i:

      Leonato: By my troth, niece, thou wilt never get thee a husband, if thou be so shrewd of thy tongue.

Derived terms

• shrewdly
• shrewdness

Translations

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)