acid
/ˈæsɪd/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.45 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Sour-tempered.
adj
Of or pertaining to an acid; acidic.
adj
Denoting a musical genre that is a distortion (as if hallucinogenic) of an existing genre, as in acid house, acid jazz, acid rock.
noun
Any compound which yields H+ ions (protons) when dissolved in water; an Arrhenius acid.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
Any compound that can accept a pair of electrons to form a covalent bond; a Lewis acid.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "acid fruits or liquors"
- "His response was harsh and acid."
- "His voice was as stern and his face as acid as ever."
- "It must be admitted that Challenger is provocative in the last degree, but Summerlee has an acid tongue, which makes matters worse."
- "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 flavor."
- "acid soils"
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ- Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱéh₁yeti Proto-Italic *akēō Latin aceō Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der. Proto-Italic *-iðos Latin -idus Latin acidusbor. French acidebor. English acid From French acide, from Latin acidus (“sour, acid”), from aceō (“to be sour”). Doublet of agita.
Origin
- Source language: French
Word Breakdown
- Root: *h₂eḱ-, acide, acidus
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈæsɪd/
- British English: /ˈæsɪd/