Acquittal, n. Discharge, release, deliverance, liberation, exoneration, exculpation, clearance, absolution, acquittance.
Acquittance, n.
- 1. Discharge. See acquittal.
- 2. Receipt, receipt in full, quittance.
Acrid, a.
- 1. Sharp, biting, pungent, hot, burning, poignant, caustic, corrosive, bitter.
- 2. Severe, harsh. See acrimonious.
Acridity, n. See acridness.
Acridness, n.
- 1. Acridity, sharpness, pungency, poignancy.
- 2. Severity, harshness, hardness. See acrimony, 2.
Acrimonious, a.
- 1. (Rare.) Corrosive, caustic, sharp.
- 2. Severe, harsh, hard, acrid, sarcastic, bitter, virulent, malignant, censorious, crabbed, snarling, snappish,
testy, pettish, petulant, cross, sour, tart, splenetic, peevish, ill-tempered, ill-natured, rancorous, spiteful,
envenomed, galling, grinding, biting, mordacious.
Acrimony, n.
- 1. Sharpness, corrosiveness, causticity.
- 2. Severity, harshness, hardness, sourness, tartness, acridity, acridness, asperity, virulence, bitterness,
acerbity, rancor, venom, crabbedness, moroseness, churlishness, ill-temper, spite, spitefulness, abusiveness.
Acroamatic, Acroamatical, Acroatic, a. Esoteric, esoterical, secret, private, abstruse, deep, profound, difficult, interior, obscure, arcane, adytal, for the initiate.
Acrobat, n. Rope-dancer, funambulist, highvaulter, lofty-tumbler, flying-trapezist, aerial athlete, equilibrist, aerosaltant.
Acrospire, n. Shoot, sprout, plumule.
Across, prep. and ad. Athwart, over, from one side of to the other, thwart, transversely.