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acidulous

/əˈsɪdjʊləs/

acidulous adjective: slightly sour; subacid; sourish.

Adjective

acidulous

  1. Slightly sour; subacid; sourish.
    • the hard, acidulous, metallic tincture of the spring1796, Edmund Burke, A Letter from the Right Honourable Edmund Burke to a Noble Lord, on the Attacks Made upon Him and His Pension, […], London: […] J. Owen, […], and F[rancis] and C[harles]...
  2. (figuratively) Sharp; caustic.
    • He talked with acidulous tolerance of the exalted personages who had sent Ashenden to X.1931, William Somerset Maugham, His Excellency
  3. Containing carbonic acid.
    • acidulous mineral waters

acidulous meaning in Hindi, Bengali, Malayalam and Kannada

acidulous in Hindi

acidulous
चुक्र cukra

acidulous in Bengali

কিছুটা টক, সামান্য অম্লীয়, তীক্ষ্ণ, কটু, কার্বনিক অ্যাসিড যুক্ত

acidulous in Malayalam

തീക്ഷ്‌ണമായ, അല്‌പം പുളിപ്പുള്ള, അൽപം പുളിപ്പിക്കുക

acidulous in Kannada

ತುಸುಹುಳಿಯ

Origin of acidulous

Learned borrowing from Latin acidulus (“sourish, acidulous”), diminutive of acidus (“sour, acid”). See acid. By surface analysis, acid + -ule + -ous.

Words formed from acidulous

Questions about acidulous

What does acidulous mean?
Acidulous means slightly sour; subacid; sourish.
What is acidulous in Hindi?
Acidulous in Hindi is चुक्र (cukra). See Acidulous meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is acidulous?
Acidulous is an adjective.
How do you pronounce acidulous?
Acidulous is pronounced /əˈsɪdjʊləs/.

Words near acidulous in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: acidulous (page history and authors); चुक्र (Hindi) (page history and authors); acidulous (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); acidulous (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); acidulous (Kannada Wiktionary) (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.

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