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English
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin acidulus (“sourish, acidulous”), diminutive of acidus (“sour, acid”). See acid.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /əˈsɪdjʊləs/, /əˈsɪd͡ʒələs/
Adjective
acidulous
- Slightly sour; sub-acid; sourish.
1796, Edmund Burke, A Letter from the Right Honourable Edmund Burke to a Noble Lord, on the Attacks Made upon Him and His Pension, , 10th edition, London: J. Owen, , and F and C Rivington, , →OCLC:the hard, acidulous, metallic tincture of the spring
- (figurative) Sharp; caustic.
1931, William Somerset Maugham, His Excellency:He talked with acidulous tolerance of the exalted personages who had sent Ashenden to X.
- Containing carbonic acid.
- acidulous mineral waters
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