adjective
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another word for acid
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(of an oxide) yielding an acid in aqueous solution
Other Word Forms
- nonacidic adjective
- semiacidic adjective
- unacidic adjective
Etymology
Origin of acidic
Example Sentences
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At home, I default to a simple formula: creamy + hot or herby + acidic.
From Salon
In science class he dropped a test tube full of a liquid that tested as strongly acidic.
From Literature
The country requires about 100,000 barrels a day; it produces 40,000 barrels a day of highly acidic heavy crude, used to fuel obsolete power plants.
Roughly 8 feet square, this dense frontal forest of figures—part human, part animal, part vegetal—in acidic blues, yellows and greens, is Cubist, Surrealist, Afro-Cuban.
Even if you don’t know her music, the film still works an acidic sketch of fame — “Spinal Tap” for the era of stan culture.
From Los Angeles Times
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