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| Main Entry: | acid |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lysergic acid diethylamide, LSD |
| Synonyms: | California sunshine, Lucy in the sky with diamonds, Owsley's acid, black tabs, blotter, blue Owsley, blue acid, blue dot, candy*, cubes, dot*, electric Kool Aid, green dragon, hallucinogen, instant Zen, magic mushrooms, mescalin, microdots, mushrooms, orange sunshine, peyote, purple haze, strawberry fields, sugar cubes, yellow sunshine |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | acid |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bitter, sour in taste |
| Synonyms: | acerbic, acidulous, biting, piquant, pungent, sharp, tart, vinegarish, vinegary |
| Antonyms: | bland, sweet |
| Main Entry: | acid |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | having acidic, corrosive properties |
| Synonyms: | acerbic, acidulous, acrid, biting, anti-alkaline, bleaching, corroding, disintegrative, dissolvent, eating away, eroding, erosive, oxidizing, rusting |
| Antonyms: | basic |
| Main Entry: | acid |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bitter in words or behavior |
| Synonyms: | acerbic, biting, caustic, cutting, dry, harsh, hateful, hurtful, mordant, nasty, offensive, sarcastic, sharp, stinging, trenchant, vitriolic |
| Antonyms: | kind, nice |
| Main Entry: | acrimonious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | nasty in behavior, speech |
| Synonyms: | acerbic, acid, angry, astringent, belligerent, biting, bitter, caustic, censorious, churlish, crabby, cranky, cross, cutting, indignant, irascible, irate, mad, mordant, peevish, petulant, sarcastic, sharp, spiteful, tart, testy, trenchant, wrathful, ireful, rancorous, splenetic |
| Antonyms: | kind, kindly, peaceable |
| Main Entry: | crabby/crabbed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | in a bad mood |
| Synonyms: | acid, acrid, acrimonious, awkward, bad-tempered, blunt, brusque, captious, choleric, churlish, cranky*, cross, crotchety, crusty*, cynical, difficult, dour, fretful, gloomy, glum, grouchy*, harsh, huffy, ill-tempered, irascible, irritable, misanthropic, morose, peevish, perverse, petulant, prickly, saturnine, snappish, snappy, sour, sulky, sullen, surly, tart, testy, tough, trying, unsociable, ill-humored, nasty-tempered, splenetic |
| Antonyms: | happy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | cutting |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | nasty, hateful |
| Synonyms: | acerbic, acid, acrimonious, barbed, biting, bitter, caustic, clear-cut, crisp, hurtful, incisive, malicious, penetrating, piercing, pointed, raw, sarcastic, sardonic, scathing, severe, sharp, stinging, trenchant, ingoing, probing, wounding |
| Antonyms: | kind, nice, pleasant |
| Main Entry: | galling |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very upsetting |
| Synonyms: | acid, annoying, bitter, bothersome, distasteful, grievous, humiliating, irksome, irritating, nettlesome, painful, provoking, rankling, unpalatable, vexatious, afflictive, aggravating, exasperating, harassing, plaguing, vexing |
| Antonyms: | cheering, comforting, pleasing, satisfying, soothing, wonderful |
| Main Entry: | LSD |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lysergic acid diethylamide |
| Synonyms: | California sunshine, Lucy in the sky with diamonds, Owsley, Owsley's acid, acid, blotter acid, blue heaven, cubes, dots, drug, electric Kool-aid, hallucinogen, instant Zen, mellow yellows, microdots, purple haze, strawberry fields, sunshine, tabs, yellow sunshine |
| Main Entry: | mordant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sarcastic |
| Synonyms: | acerbic, acid, biting, bitter, caustic, cutting, cynical, disparaging, disrespectful, mean, poignant, pointed, sardonic, scathing, sharp, acerb |
| Main Entry: | sarcastic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | nasty, mocking in speech |
| Synonyms: | acerbic, acid, acrimonious, arrogant, austere, backhanded, biting, bitter, brusque, captious, carping, caustic, contemptuous, corrosive, cutting, cynical, derisive, disillusioned, disparaging, disrespectful, evil, hostile, irascible, mean, mordant, offensive, ornery*, salty, sardonic, satirical, saucy*, scorching, scornful, scurrilous, severe, sharp, sneering, trenchant, acerb, chaffing, contumelious, cussed, ironical, needling, smart-alecky, snarling, taunting, twitting, weisenheiming |
| Notes: | sarcastic means 'derisive, tauntingly contemptuous,' while sardonic means 'bitterly scornful, cynically disdainful' |
| Antonyms: | kind, nice |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | tart |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bitter, sour in taste or effect |
| Synonyms: | acerbic, acid, acidulous, acrimonious, astringent, barbed, biting, caustic, cutting, dry, harsh, nasty, piquant, pungent, scathing, sharp, short, snappish, snappy, snippy, tangy, testy, trenchant, acerb, acetose, vinegary, wounding |
| Antonyms: | sweet |
| Main Entry: | trenchant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sarcastic, scathing |
| Synonyms: | acerbic, acid, acidulous, acute, astringent, biting, caustic, clear, clear-cut, crisp, critical, cutting, distinct, driving, dynamic, effective, effectual, emphatic, energetic, explicit, forceful, forcible, graphic, hurtful, impressive, incisive, intense, keen, mordant, penetrating, piquant, pointed, potent, powerful, pungent, salient, salty*, sardonic, sententious, severe, sharp, significant, strong, tart, unequivocal, unsparing, vigorous, weighty, well-defined, crushing, razor-sharp, to the point |
| Antonyms: | frivolous, gentle, impotent, kind, nice, weak |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | unsavory |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | revolting, sickening |
| Synonyms: | acid, bitter, bland, disagreeable, distasteful, dull, flavorless, gross*, icky*, insipid, lousy, nasty, nauseating, objectionable, obnoxious, offensive, rancid, rank, raunchy*, repellent, repugnant, repulsive, rough, sad, shady, sharp, shifty, sour, stinking, tart, tasteless, tough, unappetizing, unpalatable, unpleasant, wrong, no good |
| Antonyms: | appetizing, attractive, savory |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | crabby |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | irritable |
| Synonyms: | acid, acrid, acrimonious, awkward, bad-tempered, blunt, brusque, captious, choleric, churlish, cranky, cross, crotchety, crusty, cynical, difficult, dour, fretful, gloomy, glum, grouchy, harsh, huffy, ill-tempered, irascible, misanthropic, morose, peevish, perverse, petulant, prickly, saturnine, snappish, sour, sulky, sullen, surly, tart, testy, tough, trying, unsociable, chuffy, crabbed, ill-humored, mumpish, nasty-tempered, splenetic |
| Antonyms: | amiable, good-humored, good-natured, happy, pleasant, sweet |
| Main Entry: | acrid |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bitter, sour to taste |
| Synonyms: | acid, astringent, biting, burning, caustic, harsh, irritating, pungent, sharp, stinging, amaroidal |
| Antonyms: | delicious, savory, sweet |
| Main Entry: | bitter |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pungent, sharp |
| Synonyms: | acerbic, acid, acrid, astringent, harsh, sour, tart, absinthal, absinthian, acerb, amaroidal, unsweetened, vinegary |
| Antonyms: | bland, mild, pleasant, sweet |
| Main Entry: | caustic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | burning, corrosive |
| Synonyms: | abrasive, acerbic, acid, acrid, alkaline, astringent, biting, keen, mordant, pungent, tart, corroding, erosive |
| Antonyms: | calm, mild, soothing |
| Main Entry: | pungent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | highly flavored |
| Synonyms: | acid, acrid, aromatic, bitter, hot, peppery, piquant, poignant, racy, rich, salty, seasoned, sharp, snappy, sour, spicy, stinging, stinking*, strong, tangy, tart, effluvious, nosey*, odoriferous, whiffy, zesty |
| Antonyms: | blah, bland, dull, flavorless, tasteless |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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