Acrimony

Definition: Acrimony

Acrimony

Noun

1. A sharp and bitter manner.

Date "acrimony" was first used: 1542. (references)

Etymology: Acrimony \Ac"ri*mo*ny\, noun; plural Acrimonies. [Latin expression acrimonia, from acer, sharp: compare to the French expression acrimonie.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Acrimony

Synonyms: acerbity (n), bitterness (n), jaundice (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Bitterness	Noun: bitterness, acridness, acridity, acrimony; caustic, alkali; acerbity; gall, wormwood; bitters, astringent bitters.
Discourtesy	Churlishness; Adjective: spinosity, perversity; moroseness; (sullenness) a. sternness; Adjective: austerity; moodishness, captiousness; cynicism; tartness; Adjective: acrimony, acerbity, virulence, asperity.
Hate	Umbrage, pique, grudge; dudgeon, spleen bitterness, bitterness of feeling; ill blood, bad blood; acrimony; malice; implacability; (revenge).
Physical Energy	Acrimony, acritude; causiticity, virulence; poignancy; harshness; Adjective: severity, edge, point; pungency.
Pungency	Sharpness. Adjective: acrimony; roughness. (sour); unsavoriness .
Resentment	Pique, umbrage, huff, miff, soreness, dudgeon, acerbity, virulence, bitterness, acrimony, asperity, spleen, gall; heart-burning, heart-swelling; rankling.
Unsavoriness	Noun: unsavoriness. Adjective: amaritude; acrimony, acridity (bitterness) b; roughness. (sour); acerbity, austerity; gall and wormwood, rue, quassia, aloes; marah; sickener.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Acrimony

English words defined with "acrimony": Acrimonies, Acrimoniousness, Antacrid ♦ Edulcorant. (references)

Specialty definitions using "acrimony": considered harmful. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Acrimony (reference) Ned Kelly : after a century of acrimony (reference) (more book examples)
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Political Economy	Bangladesh	Political acrimony between the major parties could pose obstacles to long-term stability and further economic reform. (references)
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"Acrimony" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Acrimony" is used about 78 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	78	37,656

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Language		Translations for "acrimony"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		ashpërsi (asperity, austerity, coarseness, dourness, harshness, inclemency, rigor, rigorism, rigour, roughness, savagery, severity, sharpness, toughness, tyranny), hidhësi. (various references)

Arabic		‏لذع (bite, burning, poignancy, pungency, scorch, sharpness, smart), ‏حدة (acridity, acuity, acuteness, asperity, edge, great rage, intensification, intensity, keenness, loneness, paroxysmal, piquancy, poignancy, pungency, ruggedness, severity, sharpness, solitariness, solitude, temper, vehemence). (various references)

Bulgarian		язвителност (acerbity, acidity, bitterness, incision, mordacity, pungency, sting, vitriol), острота (acridity, acuteness, bitterness, cutting edge, edge, fineness, incision, nip, penetration, poignancy, pungency, sharpness, stridency), ожесточение, настървение, жлъчност. (various references)

Chinese		尖酸 (Acrid). (various references)

Czech		hořkost (bitterness). (various references)

Danish		skarphed (acerbity, acuity, sharpness). (various references)

Dutch		snibbigheid, schrilheid (acerbity, acuity, sharpness), scherpte (acerbity, acuity, angularity, definition, fineness, pungent stimulus, sharpness), scherpheid (acerbity, acuity, sharpness), schelheid (acerbity, acuity, sharpness), guurheid (acerbity, acuity, sharpness), felheid (acerbity, acuity, sharpness), bitsheid (tartness). (various references)

Farsi		تندی (Acerbity, Discourtesy, Ginger, Heat, Impetuosity, Kick, Pace, Pungency, Rapidity, Rigor, Speed, Vehemence, Velocity, Violence, Virulence), رنجش (Annoyance, Bother, Grief, Irritation, Miff, Offense, Pique, Resentment, Umbrage, Vexation), شدت (Duress, Extremity, Gravity, Intensity, Severity, Stringency, Vehemence, Violence). (various references)

French		aigreur (acerbity), acuité (acerbity, acuity, acute), acrimonie, acerbité (acridity). (various references)

Frisian		skerpte (acerbity, acuity, sharpness), skerpens (acerbity, acuity, sharpness). (various references)

German		Bitterkeit (acerbity, bitterness, rancor, rancour). (various references)

Greek		πικρία (bitterness, chagrin), δριμύτητα (acerbity, acridity, acridness, asperity, bitterness, crispness, criticality, harshness, keenness, poignancy, rigor, rigour, severity, sharpness, tartness, verjuice). (various references)

Hebrew		מרירות (acerbity, acridity, bitterness, embitterment, spleen). (various references)

Hungarian		kesernyésség (tartness), csípősség (acerbity, acridity, acrimoniousness, crispness, poignancy, pungency, salt, tartness). (various references)

Icelandic		skarpskyggni (acerbity, acuity, sharpness), hvassleiki (acerbity, acuity, sharpness). (various references)

Indonesian		ketajaman (acidity, acuity, acumen, discernment), kesengitan. (various references)

Italian		acrimonia (acridity of blood). (various references)

Manx		sherriuid (acerbity, acidity, acridity, agony, agony of mind, bitterness, fustiness, sharpness, tartness), gargid (acridity, acrimoniousness, asperity, austerity, brusqueness, harshness, harshness of wine, pungency, tartness). (various references)

Pig Latin		acrimonyay

Portuguese		acrimônia (acerbity, acuity, poignancy, pungency, sharpness, vitriol). (various references)

Romanian		asprime (abruptness, acerbity, asperity, bitterness, callosity, callousness, coarseness, gruffness, hardness, harshness, rigidity, rigor, rigour, roughness, rudeness, severity, sharpness, sternness, stringency), acrimonie, vehemenţã (bitterness, vehemence, violence), rãutate (archness, bad, badness, cattiness, cussedness, harm, ill nature, illness, malice, malignancy, malignity, rogue, spite, venom, wickedness, wrong), picã (grudge, grudging, heart-burning, malice, pique, quarrel, spades, spite), duşmãnie (animosity, animus, bad blood, bad feeling, enmity, grudge, hostility, ill blood, ill feeling, rancor, rancour, spite), causticitate (acridity). (various references)

Russian		язвительность (acrimoniousness, mordacity, snideness), едкость (acidity, causticity, corrosivness, poignancy). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		oštrina (acuity, asperity, keenness, sharpness), jetkost (acridity, caustic, sourness), gorčina (acerbity, bitterness, wormwood). (various references)

Spanish		acritud (acerbity, acid, acridity, pungency, sharpness), acrimonia. (various references)

Swahili		ukali (acerbity, acuity, sharpness). (various references)

Swedish		skärpa (acerbity, acridity, acridness, acuity, acuteness, asperity, definition, edge, exactness, give an edge to, increase, poignancy, pungency, put an edge on, severity, sharpen, sharpness, stiffen, sting, strengthen, to hone, to sharpen, to whet, whet). (various references)

Turkish		terslik (acerbity, awkwardness, biliousness, contrariety, contrariness, crossness, cussedness, hitch, ill luck, misadventure, misfortune, moods, perversity, reverse, reversion, shortness, sullenness, tartness), huysuzluk (acerbity, bad temper, bile, biliousness, crankiness, crossness, cussedness, devilry, disagreeableness, distemper, fractiousness, grouch, grouchiness, huff, moodiness, pettishness, petulance, sourness, spleen, surliness, temper, vice, viciousness), hırçınlık (bad temper, gruffness, obstinacy, pettishness, pugnacity, sourness). (various references)

Ukranian		уїдливість (acridity, caustic, causticity, cavil, jibe, mordacity, taunt), їдкість (acidity, acridity, causticity, poignancy), колючість (causticity), гострота (acridity, acuity, acumen, acuteness, pepper, piquancy, poignancy, pungency, quickness, savor, savour, sharpness, subtlety), жовчність (bile, gall, jaundice). (various references)

Vietnamese		sự gay gắt, sự chua cay (point). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	acies, acrimonia, acritas, acror, acumen. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Misspellings
	"Acrimony" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: accrimon, accrimony, Acinonyx, acrimone, acrimoni, acromion, acromony, acronomy, acrymony, agrimony, Akraman, carnmoni, criminy, crimony, Mccrimmon, Mccrimmons. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "acrimony" (pronounced a"krumō'nē)
6	-r u m ō' n ē	ceremony, matrimony, patrimony.
5	-u m ō' n ē	alimony, palimony, parsimony, sanctimony, testimony.
3	-ō' n ē	telephony.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-i-m-n-o-r-y"
	-1 letter: acronym, minorca.
	-2 letters: anomic, cairny, camion, crayon, macron, manioc, micron, myrica.
	-3 letters: acorn, amino, amnic, amnio, anomy, cairn, carny, carom, coria, corny, crony, cyano, cymar, inarm, irony, macon, macro, manic, manor, mayor, micra, micro, mincy, minor, moira, moray, narco, naric, noria, orcin, racon, rainy, rayon, roman, yonic.
	-4 letters: airn, airy, amin, amir, arco, army, ayin, cain, carn, ciao, cion, coin, coir, coma, coni, cony, corm, corn, cory, cram, cyan, cyma, icon, inro, iron, main, mair, mano, many, marc, mayo, mica, mina, miry, moan, mony, mora, morn, myna, naoi, narc, nary, noir, noma, nori, norm, orca, racy, rain, rami, rani, rimy, roam, roan, yarn, yoni.
	-5 letters: aim, ain, air, ami, ani, any, arc, arm, cam, can, car, cay, con, cor, coy, cry, icy, ion, mac, man, mar, may, mir, moa, moc, mon, mor, nam, nay, nim, nom, nor, oar, oca, ora, orc, ram, ran, ray, ria, rim, rin, roc, rom, rya, yam, yar, yin, yom, yon.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-i-m-n-o-r-y"
	+1 letter: acronymic.
	+2 letters: chiromancy, craniotomy, importancy, matronymic, patronymic, pyromaniac.
	+3 letters: actinometry, aerodynamic, combinatory, comminatory, craniometry, matronymics, moronically, oneiromancy, patronymics, pyromancies, pyromaniacs.
	+4 letters: actinomorphy, aerodynamics, asynchronism, ceremonially, confirmatory, dynamometric, gyromagnetic, harmonically, hydrodynamic, hydromancies, incomparably, intercompany, intracompany, microanalyst, microanatomy, microtonally, pancreozymin, predominancy, pyromaniacal, romantically.
	+5 letters: acrimoniously, acronymically, aerodynamical, agronomically, asynchronisms, communicatory, complimentary, documentarily, embryonically, ergonomically, hydrodynamics, hydromagnetic, hyperromantic, incriminatory, microanalyses, microanalysis, microanalysts, microanalytic, microtonality, monarchically, pancreozymins, panoramically, recriminatory, thermodynamic, uncustomarily.
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