Meaning and example
sour or bitter in taste
The passage used "acerbic" to mean sour or bitter in taste.
Plain-English interpretation
A prevalence score of 0.697 places acerbic in the uncommon range on this site. In practical terms, the word was recognized by about 76% of people in the source dataset.
Related words
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Similar-prevalence words
vitriolicUncommon
- Known by
- 75.8%
harsh or corrosive in tone
portentousUncommon
- Known by
- 76.6%
of momentous or ominous significance
alacrityUncommon
- Known by
- 75.1%
liveliness and eagerness
desiccateUncommon
- Known by
- 77%
preserve by removing all water and liquids from
diffidentUncommon
- Known by
- 77.3%
showing modest reserve
Source attribution
Brysbaert, M., Mandera, P., McCormick, S. F., & Keuleers, E. (2019). Word prevalence norms for 62,000 English lemmas. Behavior Research Methods, 51, 467-479.
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