Crossword-Solution: ACRID 5 letters, 194 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

Dictionary

Word	Word Type	Definition
Acrid	a.	Sharp and harsh, or bitter and not, to the taste; pungent; as, acrid salts.
Acrid	a.	Causing heat and irritation; corrosive; as, acrid secretions.
Acrid	a.	Caustic; bitter; bitterly irritating; as, acrid temper, mind, writing.

Anagrams

Word		Anagrams
ACRID	anagram	ARCID, CAIRD, CARDI, CARID, DARIC, DIRAC, RADIC

We have 194 clues for the answer “ACRID”

Clue	Answers
Bitter of taste.	1 answer
Bitter; biting	1 answer
Bitter; pungent	1 answer
Bitterly irritating.	1 answer
Bitterly pungent to the taste.	1 answer
Bringing tears to your eyes, maybe	1 answer
Deeply bitter	1 answer
Deeply irritating	1 answer
Exceedingly caustic	1 answer
Excessively caustic	1 answer
Eye-burning	1 answer
Eye-stinging	1 answer
Hard on the eyes and nose	1 answer
Hard on the nose	1 answer
Harsh on the nose	1 answer
Harsh to the taste	1 answer
Harsh-smelling	1 answer
Harshly bitter	1 answer
Harshly pungent	1 answer
Having a bitter taste or smell	1 answer
Having a burning smell	1 answer
Having a pungent odor	1 answer
Having a sharp taste	1 answer
Having a sharp temper.	1 answer
Irritating to the eyes	1 answer
Irritating to the nose	1 answer
Irritating, as an herb	1 answer
Like a skunk's defense	1 answer
Like ammonia	1 answer
Like ammonia's scent	1 answer
Like burning plastic	1 answer
Like burning rubber	1 answer
Like burning rubber's smell	1 answer
Like burnt coffee	1 answer
Like dogbane	1 answer
Like dogbane juice	1 answer
Like garbage	1 answer
Like many volcanic fumes	1 answer
Like the Hatfields' and McCoys' relationship	1 answer
Like the air after a fire	1 answer
Like the smell of burned rubber	1 answer
Like the smell of burning plastic	1 answer
Like the smell of burning rubber	1 answer
Like the smell of burning tires	1 answer
Like the smell of burnt rubber	1 answer
Like the smell of rotten eggs	1 answer
Like the stink from a skunk	1 answer
Like thick smoke	1 answer
Like wildfire smoke	1 answer
Metallic-tasting	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.

Hint 2 anagram

EACEZM

Hint 3 another clue

eruption

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Sentences with ACRID (5)

She possessed affections, too, though hitherto acrid and disagreeable, as are the richest flavours of unripe fruit.

The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne 1992

While the latter expression was yet on his lips, he caught a glimpse of Hepzibah, who had involuntarily bent forward to the window; and then the smile changed from acrid and disagreeable to the sunniest complacency and benevolence.

The House of the Seven Gables Nathaniel Hawthorne 1993

The smoke of forest fires hangs low over the surrounding landscape, its acrid fumes smarting the eyes of a little party of six who stand waiting the coming of the train that is to bear them away toward the south.

The Return of Tarzan Edgar Rice Burroughs 1993

But the dullness of his days pleased him; his melancholy, which was settling into a secondary stage, like a healing wound, had in it a certain acrid, palatable sweetness.

The American Henry James 1994

One day, however, a deaf and seemingly senseless lad from a distant village brought him a belated telegram; and Glengyle, in his acrid pleasantry, gave him a new farthing.

The Innocence of Father Brown G. K. Chesterton 1995

Quotes with ACRID (3)

Pedersen was always wooing her. Sometimes he was gracious and kind, but at other times when his failure wearied him he would be cruel and sardonic, with a suggestive tongue whose vice would have scourged her were it not that Marie was impervious, or too deeply inured to mind it. She always grinned at him and fobbed him off with pleasantries, whether he was amorous or acrid.'God Almighty,' he would groan, 'she is not good for me, this Marie. What can I do for her? She is burni…

A.E. Coppard Dusky Ruth: And Other Stories

One day, on tearing off some old bark, I saw two rare beetles, and seized one in each hand. Then I saw a third and new kind, which I could not bear to lose, so I popped the one which I held in my right hand into my mouth. Alas! it ejected some intensely acrid fluid, which burnt my tongue so that I was forced to spit the beetle out, which was lost, as was the third one.

Charles Darwin

A siege is always a hospital - a hospital where mad thoughts abound and where mad things are done; where, under the stimulus of an unnatural excitement, new beings are evolved, beings who, while having the outward shape of their former selves, and, indeed, most of the old outward characteristics, are yet reborn in some subtle way and are no longer the same.... The salt of life! Is it true, or is it merely a mistake, such as life-loving man naturally makes? For it can be nothi…

B.L. Putnam Weale

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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Slate, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 447 times in crossword archives (1946–2025).