acid – English adjective declension

English adjective forms of acid

Adjective: acid

Comparison Forms

Synthetic

Comparativeacider
Superlativeacidest

Perifrastic

Sample Sentences

  • acid fruits or liquors
  • His response was harsh and acid.
  • His voice was as stern and his face as acid as ever. [1864, Anthony Trollope, The Small House at Allington, 2nd edition, volume 2, Smith, Elder & Co., page 235:]
  • It must be admitted that Challenger is provocative in the last degree, but Summerlee has an acid tongue, which makes matters worse. [1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:]
  • Little disappointed, then, she turned attention to "Chat of the Social World," gossip which exercised potent fascination upon the girl's intelligence. She devoured with more avidity than she had her food those pretentiously phrased chronicles of the snobocracy—[…]—distilling therefrom an acid envy that robbed her napoleon of all its flavor. [1914 November, Louis Joseph Vance, “An Outsider […]”, in Munsey’s Magazine, volume LIII, number II, New York, N.Y.: The Frank A[ndrew] Munsey Company, […], published 1915, →OCLC, chapter I (Anarchy), page 373, column 2:]
  • acid soils
  • Like other nyssas, it is in nature a creature of swampy places and looks loveliest where massed close to water and reflected in it, but justifies itself elsewhere if the soil is moist and acid, succeeding in wet clay. [1975, Peter N. Barber, Cecil Ernest Lucas Phillips, The Trees Around Us, page 101:]

Adjectives inflected like acid

sallow, smooth, slight, sleigh, sordid, somber, shweet, shrill, shrewd, yellow, yaller, hard knock, DRY, Greek, cut short, unquiet, unclean, indiscreet, chipper, straicht, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ-
3. Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti
4. Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
5. Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti
6. Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱéh₁yeti
7. Proto-Italic *akēō
8. Latin aceō
9. Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der.
10. Proto-Italic *-iðos
11. Latin -idus
12. Latin acidusbor.
13. French acidebor.
14. English acid
15. From French acide, from Latin acidus (“sour, acid”), from aceō (“to be sour”). Doublet of agita. See: French Adjectives 'acide', Latin Adjectives 'acidus'.