acid
Sour, sharp, or biting to the taste; tart; having the taste of vinegar.
Adjective 4 meanings
Sour, sharp, or biting to the taste; tart; having the taste of vinegar.
“acid fruits or liquors”
Sour-tempered.
“His response was harsh and acid.”
Of or pertaining to an acid; acidic.
Denoting a musical genre that is a distortion (as if hallucinogenic) of an existing genre, as in acid house, acid jazz, acid rock.
Noun 4 meanings
A sour substance.
Any compound which yields H+ ions (protons) when dissolved in water; an Arrhenius acid.
Any compound that easily donates protons to a base; a Brønsted acid.
Any compound that can accept a pair of electrons to form a covalent bond; a Lewis acid.
Etymology
From French acide, from Latin acidus (“sour, acid”), from aceō (“to be sour”). Doublet of agita.
Similar and opposite words
ACID at a glance
ACID has 4 letters and scores 7 points in Scrabble (A 1 + C 3 + I 1 + D 2) and 8 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #3,206 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with acid
All rhymes- LUCID8
- PLACID11
- RANCID9
- FLACCID15
- ANTACID10
- PROBENECID17
- PELLUCID13
- VISCID12
- INVISCID14
- SUBACID12
- CHALCID15
- MUSCID11
One letter away
- AMID7
- AVID8
- ARID5
- ACED7
- ABID7
Keep going
Related lists
Looking for a different word?
Type the letters you have and the Finder shows every word that fits.