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nonacerbic

nonacerbic adjective: not acerbic; amicable.

Adjective

nonacerbic (comparative more nonacerbic, superlative most nonacerbic)

  1. Not acerbic; amicable.
    • Perhaps the Committee on Accreditation, which under the leadership of Robert Hayes did a masterful job of holding broadly based and yet nonacerbic meetings to discuss the purpose of accreditation, is most strategically positioned to tackle this issue.1991 Fall-Winter, Herbert S. White, “Bibliographic instruction and the library school curriculum”, in Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, volume 32, number 3/4, page 199
    • This racially/ethnically mixed, mostly 18-year-old, mostly white group of freshmen were able to have a thoughtful, nonacerbic conversation about race relations through a discussion of Tocqueville's ovservations and hypotheses.1998 December, James E Jones, “Divided by Color: Some Reflections”, in The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, volume 34, number 4, page 437

Forms of nonacerbic

comparativemore nonacerbic
superlativemost nonacerbic

Origin of nonacerbic

From non- + acerbic.

Questions about nonacerbic

What does nonacerbic mean?
Nonacerbic means not acerbic; amicable.
What part of speech is nonacerbic?
Nonacerbic is an adjective.

Words near nonacerbic in the dictionary

  1. nonaccursed
  2. nonaccusative
  3. nonaccusatory
  4. nonaccustomed
  5. nonacene
  6. nonacerbic
  7. nonacetabular
  8. nonacetate
  9. nonacetic
  10. nonacetogenic
  11. nonacetylated

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