acid

acid is a 4-letter English word with 9 senses as adjective and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Sour, sharp, or biting to the taste; tart; having the taste of vinegar: as, acid fruits or liquors. Also fig.: Sour-tempered. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 8 · 9 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Sour, sharp, or biting to the taste; tart; having the taste of vinegar: as, acid fruits or liquors. Also fig.: Sour-tempered.
2. adjective. Of or pertaining to an acid; as, acid reaction.
3. noun. A sour substance.
4. noun. One of a class of compounds, generally but not always distinguished by their sour taste, solubility in water, and reddening of vegetable blue or violet colors. They are also characterized by the power of destroying the distinctive properties of alkalies or bases, combining with them to form salts, at the same time losing their own peculiar properties. They all contain hydrogen, united with a more negative element or radical, either alone, or more generally with oxygen, and take their names from this negative element or radical. Those which contain no oxygen are sometimes called hydracids in distinction from the others which are called oxygen acids or oxacids.
5. noun. street name for lysergic acid diethylamide

   Synonyms: dose, dot, elvis, pane, superman, zen

6. noun. any of various water-soluble compounds having a sour taste and capable of turning litmus red and reacting with a base to form a salt
7. adjective. having the characteristics of an acid

   "an acid reaction"

8. adjective. harsh or corrosive in tone

   "an acerbic tone piercing otherwise flowery prose"

   "a barrage of acid comments"

   Synonyms: acerb, acerbic, acrid, bitter, blistering, caustic, sulfurous, sulphurous, virulent, vitriolic

9. adjective. being sour to the taste

   Synonyms: acidic, acidulent, acidulous

Synonyms

dose, dot, elvis, pane, superman, zen, acerb, acerbic, acrid, bitter, blistering, caustic, sulfurous, sulphurous, virulent, vitriolic, acidic, acidulent, acidulous

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in acid:

cadi, caid

Common word forms

acids, acider, acidly, acidity, acidize, acidness

Words from these letters

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