Acrimonious

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Acrimonious \Ac"ri*mo"ni*ous\, a. [Cf. LL. acrimonious, F.
     acrimonieux.]
     1. Acrid; corrosive; as, acrimonious gall. [Archaic]
        --Harvey.
        [1913 Webster]
  


     2. Caustic; bitter-tempered' sarcastic; as, acrimonious
        dispute, language, temper.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  acrimonious
       adj : marked by strong resentment or cynicism; "an acrimonious
             dispute"; "bitter about the divorce" [syn: {bitter}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  68 Moby Thesaurus words for "acrimonious":
     acerb, acerbate, acerbic, acid, acidic, acidulent, acidulous,
     acrid, astringent, belligerent, biting, bitter, burning, caustic,
     choleric, contentious, corroding, corrosive, cranky, cross,
     cutting, double-edged, edged, embittered, escharotic, fierce,
     harsh, incisive, indignant, irascible, irate, ireful, keen, mad,
     mordacious, mordant, penetrating, piercing, poignant, quarrelsome,
     rancorous, rankled, resentful, resenting, rigorous, rough,
     scathing, scorching, severe, sharp, sore, splenetic, stabbing,
     stewing, stinging, strident, stringent, tart, testy, trenchant,
     vehement, violent, virulent, vitriolic, withering, wrathful,
     wrathy, wroth