acid

• (s) harsh or corrosive in tone
  • an acerbic tone piercing otherwise flowery prose
  • a barrage of acid comments
  • her acrid remarks make her many enemies
  • bitter words
  • blistering criticism
  • caustic jokes about political assassination, talk-show hosts and medical ethics
  • a sulfurous denunciation
  • a vitriolic critique
  blistering, caustic, vitriolic, acerb, acerbic, acrid, sulfurous, sulphurous, bitter, virulent,
• (s) being sour to the taste acidulent, acidulous, acidic,
• (s) having the characteristics of an acid
  • an acid reaction

Nouns

• (n) 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
• (n) street name for lysergic acid diethylamide back breaker, battery-acid, Elvis, loony toons, Lucy in the sky with diamonds, window pane, superman, pane, Zen, dose, dot,

Synonyms

Words of close approximity