Food and drink
Synonyms for acrid
Synonyms for acrid: bitter and pungent. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 2 synonyms for acrid
Interchangeable with acrid in this sense
Audited under acrid's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one acrid carries in that sense.
- bitteradjective, in the sense "having an unpleasantly sharp, bitter taste or smell"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name acrid as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- pungentpungent is an adjective in the sense "strong and sharp"
Two directions, one standard: one audited under acrid and one under the partner word. Nothing here was expanded out of a thesaurus.
having an unpleasantly sharp, bitter taste or smell
The smoke left the barbecue sauce tasting acrid and harsh.
The true synonym
bitter
Same sentence, swapped: The smoke left the barbecue sauce tasting bitter and harsh.
Close but different
The game shows these three beside the answer. Each is a real word with a real meaning and none of them fits the slot acrid is in above, which is the point the reason line makes.
- sweet
- mild
- fruity
Where acrid turns up in the game
acrid is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 1, Foothills. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.
Play acrid
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so acrid reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Closest first: other food and drink words at Foothills, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
A reason under every answer, not just a right answer
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. acrid carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.