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All acrimonious synonyms

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adj acrimonious

  • rancorous — full of or showing rancor.
  • testy — irritably impatient; touchy.
  • belligerent — A belligerent person is hostile and aggressive.
  • caustic — Caustic chemical substances are very powerful and can dissolve other substances.
  • bitter — In a bitter argument or conflict, people argue very angrily or fight very fiercely.
  • acerbic — sour in taste
  • acid — An acid is a chemical substance, usually a liquid, which contains hydrogen and can react with other substances to form salts. Some acids burn or dissolve other substances that they come into contact with.
  • angry — When you are angry, you feel strong dislike or impatience about something.
  • astringent — An astringent is a liquid that you put on your skin to make it less oily or to make cuts stop bleeding.
  • biting — Biting wind or cold is extremely cold.
  • censorious — If you describe someone as censorious, you do not like the way they strongly disapprove of and criticize someone else's behaviour.
  • churlish — Someone who is churlish is unfriendly, bad-tempered, or impolite.
  • crabby — Someone who is crabby is bad-tempered and unpleasant to people.
  • cranky — If you describe ideas or ways of behaving as cranky, you disapprove of them because you think they are strange.
  • cross — If you cross something such as a room, a road, or an area of land or water, you move or travel to the other side of it. If you cross to a place, you move or travel over a room, road, or area of land or water in order to reach that place.
  • cutting — A cutting is a piece of writing which has been cut from a newspaper or magazine.
  • indignant — feeling, characterized by, or expressing strong displeasure at something considered unjust, offensive, insulting, or base: indignant remarks; an indignant expression on his face.
  • irascible — easily provoked to anger; very irritable: an irascible old man.
  • irate — angry; enraged: an irate customer.
  • mad — mentally disturbed; deranged; insane; demented.
  • mordant — sharply caustic or sarcastic, as wit or a speaker; biting.
  • peevish — cross, querulous, or fretful, as from vexation or discontent: a peevish youngster.
  • sarcastic — of, relating to, or characterized by sarcasm: a sarcastic reply.
  • sharp — having a thin cutting edge or a fine point; well-adapted for cutting or piercing: a sharp knife.
  • spiteful — full of spite or malice; showing spite; malicious; malevolent; venomous: a spiteful child.
  • tart — sharp to the taste; sour or acid: Tart apples are best for pie. Synonyms: astringent, acrid, piquant. Antonyms: sweet, sugary, bland, mellow.
  • trenchant — incisive or keen, as language or a person; caustic; cutting: trenchant wit.
  • wrathful — very angry; ireful; full of wrath: They trembled before the wrathful queen.
  • ireful — full of intense anger; wrathful.
  • splenetic — of the spleen; splenic.

adjective acrimonious

  • discordant — being at variance; disagreeing; incongruous: discordant opinions.
  • hostile — of, relating to, or characteristic of an enemy: a hostile nation.
  • unfriendly — not amicable; not friendly or kindly in disposition; unsympathetic; aloof: an unfriendly coldness of manner.
  • harsh — ungentle and unpleasant in action or effect: harsh treatment; harsh manners.
  • speech — the faculty or power of speaking; oral communication; ability to express one's thoughts and emotions by speech sounds and gesture: Losing her speech made her feel isolated from humanity.
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