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acidic

[ uh-sid-ik ]

adjective

  1. Geology. acid ( def 8 ).
  2. containing acid-bearing pollutants:

    Acidic runoff is poisoning the nation's rivers.



acidic

/ əˈsɪdɪk /

adjective

  1. another word for acid
  2. (of an oxide) yielding an acid in aqueous solution


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Other Words From

  • nona·cidic adjective
  • semi·a·cidic adjective
  • una·cidic adjective

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Word History and Origins

Origin of acidic1

First recorded in 1875–80; acid + -ic

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Example Sentences

Champagne, which is also acidic, offers a nice complement to anything from tuna tartare to beef bourguignon.

How can a chilled, acidic, and bubbly liquid make you feel all warm and fuzzy inside?

Despite whatever acidic rhetoric Latino leaders are dishing out toward Obama today, I would expect that will change this fall.

But the proposition had eventually broken apart in the churning, acidic stomach of Washington politics.

The Miraculin binds to the sweet receptor in your mouth and makes sour, or acidic foods taste incredibly sweet.

When a fragmental rock is composed chiefly of rocks belonging to the acidic group, we say it is felspathic.

They probably are mainly volatile organic acids, together with other acidic-natured products of roasting.

The two classes are alike in chemical composition and may be divided into acidic and basic groups.

Granite is an acidic rock corresponding to rhyolite in chemical composition.

The fruit is fleshy and acidic and consumed fresh or pickled: Averrhoa carambola.

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