Acetous

Definition: Acetous

Acetous

Adjective

1. Tasting like vinegar.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "acetous" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1842. (references)

Etymology: Acetous \A*ce"tous\, adjective. [Latin expression acetum vinegar, from acere to be sour.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Acetous

Crosswords: Acetous

Expressions using "acetous": Acetous acid ♦ Acetous fermentation ♦ Acetous or Acetic. Additional references.

Albanian

acid (acid, mordant, sour, tart), acetik, i thartë (acid, acidulous, rough, sharp, sour, tart). (various references)

Bulgarian 

кисел (acid, acidulated, acidulous, crabbed, crabby, disgruntled, grouchy, grumpy, humpy, ill-humored, ill-humoured, liverish, livery, peeved, pettish, petulant, querulous, sour, tart, vinegar, vinegary). (various references)

Danish

sur (acid, acidic, dismal, sour, tart). (various references)

Dutch

zuur (acerbic, acid, acidic, bitter, brutal, gruff, harsh, heartburn, rough, sour, sullen, surly, tart, unkind, unpleasant). (various references)

Faeroese

súrur (acid, sour, tart). (various references)

French

aigre (acerbic, acetic, acid, acrid, acrimonious, acute), acide (acid, acidic, blotter acid, ethylene diamine tetraacetic acid, paper acid). (various references)

German

sauer (acid, acidic, acidly, acis, acrid, cross, hard, mad, moped, moping, off, pickled, sharp, shirty, sickly, sore, sour, soured, sourly, sulkily, sulky, tart, tartly, uptight), herb (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acrid, acrimonious, acute, aspero, austere, bitter, cruel, dour, dry, harsh, harshly, lurid, rough, rude, severe, sharp, sour, tangy, tart, tartly). (various references)

Greek 

όξινοσ, διάλυμα που περιέχει οξικό οξύ. (various references)

Hawaiian

acid (acid, sour, tart). (various references)

Hungarian

savanyú (acerb, acerbic, acid, crabby, dour, eager, frumpish, sour, tart, to wear a long face), ecetízû. (various references)

Icelandic

súr (acid, sour, tart). (various references)

Irish

aigéadach (acid, sour, tart), searbh (acid, sour, tart). (various references)

Italian

agro (acid, sour, tart, tartness, vinegarish), acido (acid, acidic, acids, acrid, beast, blotter acid, blue caps, blue drops, brown caps, California sunshine, crabbed, delysid, green caps, hawk, LSD-25, lysergyc acid diethylamide, microdots, N, N-diethyl-d-lysergimide, orange wedges, paper acid, pink drops, purple haze, purple wedges, sour, sunshine, tart, the ghost, white lightning, window panes, yellow caps, yellow drops, zen). (various references)

Norwegian

sur (acerbic, acid, bitter, crabby, dismal, grumpy, sour, tart). (various references)

Papiamen

ásido (acid, sour, tart). (various references)

Pig Latin

acetousay

Portuguese

azedo (mutability, pricked, sharp, sour, tart, vinegary). (various references)

Romanian

acru (acerb, acid, acidulous, acre, acrid, acrimonious, crabbed, cross, green, peevish, sharp, sour, sourly, sulky, surly, tart, testy, touchy, unripe, vinegarish). (various references)

Russian 

уксусный (acetic, vinegary). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

kiseo (acetate, acid, acidulated, sour, tart). (various references)

Spanish

agrio (acid, acidic, acrid, bitter, citrous, citrus, harsh, jaundiced, lurid, sour, tart). (various references)

Sranan

swa (acid, sour, tart). (various references)

Tagalog

maásim (acid, sour, tart). (various references)

Turkish

buruk (acid, acrid, sec, sour, subacid, tart). (various references)

Ukranian 

кислий (acerb, acerbic, acid, acidic, eager, raised, sour, tart, vinegary), оцтовий (acetic, vinegar, vinegary). (various references)

Vietnamese 

chua, có vị giấm. (various references)

Yucatec

pah (acid, sour, tart). (various references)

Misspellings

"Acetous" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: acerous, acetious, acetu, acetus, acueous, acutus, Aetius, akheloos, Arethousa, facetous. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: coteaus.

-1 letter: acutes, costae, coteau, cuesta.

-2 letters: acute, ascot, autos, caste, cates, cause, cesta, coast, coats, coset, costa, cotes, cutes, escot, sauce, saute, scout, scuta, scute, stoae, taces, tacos, toeas, touse.

-3 letters: aces, acts, ates, auto, case, cast, cate, cats, coat, cost, cote, cots, cues, cute, cuts, east, eats, ecus, etas, oast, oats, ocas, oust, outs, sate, scat, scot, scut, seat, sect, seta, stoa, suet, tace, taco, taos, taus, teas, toea, toes, utas.

-4 letters: ace, act, ate, cat, cos, cot, cue, cut, eat, eau, ecu, eta, oat, oca, oes, ose, out, sac, sae, sat, sau, sea, sec, set, sot, sou, sue, tae, tao, tas, tau, tea, toe, use, uta, uts.

-5 letters: ae, as, at, es, et, oe, os, so, ta, to, us, ut.

+1 letter: cathouse, lacteous, locustae, osculate, outcaste, outfaces, outpaces, outraces, seascout, soutache.

+2 letters: accouters, accoutres, aeroducts, autocades, autoecism, bluecoats, cassoulet, castoreum, cathouses, ceanothus, cetaceous, coequates, consulate, copulates, coruscate, cotqueans, courantes, courtesan, croustade, cutaneous, educators, facetious, housecoat, moustache, nectarous, obfuscate, oceanauts, osculated, osculates, outcapers, outcastes, outcheats, outdances, outrances, sauceboat, seascouts, setaceous, soutaches, suffocate, tenacious, tuckahoes, tufaceous.

+3 letters: abductores, accustomed, autoclaves, autoecious, autoecisms, cartouches, cassoulets, castoreums, catalogues, coagulates, coetaneous, cofeatures, commutates, conjugates, consulates, consummate, corrugates, coruscated, coruscates, courantoes, courtesans, croustades, eczematous, educations, eucaryotes, excusatory, gluconates, goatsucker, headcounts, housecoats, inoculates, inosculate, leucoplast, moustaches, nucleators, obfuscated, obfuscates, outcatches, outcharges, outclassed, outclasses, outcoaches, outercoats, outmarches, outmatches, outreaches, outwatches, peculators, raconteurs, sauceboats, speculator, subcordate, suffocated, suffocates, testaceous, tuffaceous, undercoats.

+4 letters: aeronautics, auctioneers, autocracies, autocrosses, avouchments, cafetoriums, cantaloupes, carburetors, cataloguers, ceanothuses, champertous, colatitudes, construable, consummated, consummates, contumacies, conventuals, copulatives, cotransduce, counteracts, countryseat, crustaceous, cutaneously, decussation, edulcorates, ejaculators, elucidators, emasculator, enunciators, equivocates, eructations, eucalyptols, evacuations, facetiously, flocculates, glauconites, goatsuckers, inosculated, inosculates, lactiferous, leucoplasts, loquacities, mustachioed, novaculites, nucleations, outachieves, outbalances, outdistance, outpreaches, patchoulies, peculations, precautions, procrustean, sansculotte, scoutmaster, speculation, speculators, subcategory, succotashes, suffocative, sugarcoated, tenaciously, treacherous, ulcerations, watercourse.

+5 letters: anticonsumer, antinucleons, ascomycetous, autecologies, autochthones, autoeciously, cantankerous, captiousness, carburetions, carburettors, cautiousness, coadjutrices, cocultivates, coeducations, coequalities, commensurate, communicates, conductances, confabulates, consultative, consummately, consummative, continuances, contractures, cotransduced, cotransduces, countenances, counterblast, countermands, counterpanes, counterparts, counterplans, counterplays, counterpleas, counterraids, counterstain, counterstate, countervails, countryseats, crematoriums, crenulations, cupellations, decussations, diatomaceous, discountable, educationese, educationist, ejaculations, elucidations, emasculation, emasculators, encrustation, enucleations, enunciations, equinoctials, equivocators, eucalyptoles, euchromatins, exculpations, factiousness, fecundations, gesticulator, granulocytes, jocularities, judicatories, macropterous, mercurations, miseducation, mycetomatous, nucleotidase, outdistanced, outdistances, overcautions, overcautious, overeducates, pectinaceous, percutaneous, pertinacious, plutocracies, postfracture, postulancies, proconsulate, proctodaeums, prosecutable, provocateurs, reeducations, reinoculates, reluctations, resuscitator, sansculottes, scoutmasters, secretagogue, speculations, stupefaction, subcutaneous, tumefactions, unaccustomed, unassociated, unsanctioned, untouchables, urochordates, vesiculation, watercourses.

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