Word.ws English Dictionary

acidulent

acidulent adjective: having an acid quality; sour; acidulous.

Adjective

acidulent (comparative more acidulent, superlative most acidulent)

  1. Having an acid quality; sour; acidulous.
    • with anxious, acidulent face1837, Thomas Carlyle, chapter IV, in The French Revolution: A History […], volume I (The Bastille), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, book I (Death of Louis XV), page 25

Forms of acidulent

comparativemore acidulent
superlativemost acidulent

Questions about acidulent

What does acidulent mean?
Acidulent means having an acid quality; sour; acidulous.
What part of speech is acidulent?
Acidulent is an adjective.

Words near acidulent in the dictionary

  1. acidulates
  2. acidulating
  3. acidulation
  4. acidulations
  5. acidulcis
  6. acidulent
  7. acidulous
  8. acidulously
  9. acidulousness
  10. aciduria
  11. acidurias

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: acidulent (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “acidulent.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/acidulent. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.