Vitriolic

Definitions: Vitriolic

Vitriolic

Adjective

1. Harsh or corrosive in tone; "an acerbic tone piercing otherwise flowery prose"; "a barrage of acid comments"; "her acrid remarks make her many enemies"; "bitter words"; "blistering criticism"; "caustic jokes about political assassination, talk-show hosts and medical ethics"; "a sulfurous denunciation".

2. Of a substance, especially a strong acid; capable of destroying or eating away by chemical action.

Date "vitriolic" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1856. (references)

Etymology: Vitriolic \Vit`ri*ol"ic\, adjective. [Compare to the French expression vitriolique.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Vitriolic

Synonyms: acerb (adj), acerbic (adj), acid (adj), acrid (adj), bitter (adj), blistering (adj), caustic (adj), corrosive (adj), erosive (adj), sulfurous (adj), sulphurous (adj), venomous (adj), virulent (adj). (additional references)

Crosswords: Vitriolic

English words defined with "vitriolic": caustically ♦ Oil of vitriol ♦ Spirit of vitriolic ether ♦ vitriolically, Vitriolous. (references)

"Vitriolic" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Vitriolic" is used about 73 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
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	73	39,105

Expressions using "vitriolic": spirit of vitriolic ether ♦ vitriolic acid. Additional references.
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Language		Translations for "vitriolic"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		sulfurik (sulphuric), sulfat (sulphate, vitriol), sarkastik (sarcastic). (various references)

Bulgarian		язвителен (acerb, acerbic, acid, acidulated, acrid, acrimonious, adust, biting, cutting, incisive, mordant, poignant, pungent, sardonic, splenetic, stinging, trenchant, vinegary, waspish), разяждащ (cankerous, caustic, corrosive, mordant), витриолов. (various references)

Czech		kousavý (acerbic, acrid, barbed, bitchy, biting, caustic, cutting, dry, pointed, scathing, snappy, tart, waspish), jedovatý (abrasive, biting, cankered, cankerous, cutting, poisonous, rank, toxic, venomous, virulent), žíravý (caustic, mordant). (various references)

Farsi		نمک جوهرگوگرد(vitriol), تندوسوزنده , توتیا, سخن تند, زاج (Alum). (various references)

French		mordant. (various references)

German		vitriolisch. (various references)

Greek		καυστικόσ (caustic, cutting, hot, peppery, poignant, scorching, sweltering, sweltery, torrid), σαρκαστικόσ (cutting, mordant, sarcastic, taunting), βιτριολικόσ. (various references)

Hungarian		kénsavas. (various references)

Italian		vetriolo (vitriol). (various references)

Manx		traartagh (destructive, pernicious, ruinous), sharroo (acid, acidific, acrid, acrimonious, bitter, cutting, embittered, sardonic, sour, tart), nieunagh (bitter as enemy;snakiness, bitter;snakiness, bleak, bleak of wind, deadly, poisonous, scathing, toxic, venomous, virulent). (various references)

Pig Latin		itriolicvay

Portuguese		vitriólico. (various references)

Russian		сернокислотный, купоросный, едкий (acerb, acerbic, acrid, biting, caustic, corrosive, mordant, poignant, pungent, scalding, scathing, sulphurous, tart). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		vitriolski, zajedljiv (acidulous, astringent, biting, cutting, mordant, poignant, pointed, sarcastic, tart, taunting), jedak (acidulous, acrid, acrimonious, astringent, biting, bitter, caustic, scathing, sharp, sour). (various references)

Spanish		vitriólico, cáustico (acrid, acrimonious, biting, caustic, caustic substance, mordacious, scathing). (various references)

Swedish		vitriol-. (various references)

Turkish		vitriyol (vitriol), iğneleyici (biting, cutting, mordacious, mordant, nippy, pricking, sarcastic, sarky, stinging, wry), acı (ache, acidulous, acrid, affliction, anguish, biting, bitter, brackish, cutting, distress, gnawing, grief, grievous, harsh, heartbreak, hot, hurt, incisive, lamentable, misery, nippy, pain, painful, pang, peppery, poignant, pungent, sad, sardonic, scathing, severe, shrill, sorrow, sorrowful, splitting, sting, suffering, tragic, trenchant, worry). (various references)

Ukranian		сірчанокислотний, купоросний. (various references)

Vietnamese		chua cay (acrimonious, caustically, incisive, mordant, nipping, peppery). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings
	"Vitriolic" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: viriolic, virtiolic, vitiolic, vitreolic, vitriole, vitrioloic, vitrionic, vitrolic. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "vitriolic" (pronounced vi'trēÄ"lik)
4	-Ä" l i k	alcoholic, anabolic, bucolic, diastolic, frolic, hyperbolic, melancholic, metabolic, nonalcoholic, parabolic, phenolic, symbolic, workaholic.
3	-l i k	acrylic, Alec, allelic, anencephalic, angelic, catholic, gallic, garlic, hydraulic, hydrophilic, idyllic, italic, metallic, nonpublic, pedophilic, phallic, psychedelic, public, relic, shashlik.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-i-i-i-l-o-r-t-v"
	-2 letters: vitriol.
	-3 letters: iritic, lictor, victor, vitric.
	-4 letters: civil, licit, lirot, lotic, toric, torii, triol, volti.
	-5 letters: clit, clot, coil, coir, colt, liri, loci, loti, otic, riot, roil, roti, rotl, tirl, tiro, toil, torc, tori, trio, viol, virl, volt.
	Words containing the letters "c-i-i-i-l-o-r-t-v"
	+3 letters: proclivities.
	+4 letters: provincialist, provinciality.
	+5 letters: convertibility, diverticulosis, irrevocability, overidealistic, oversimplistic, provincialists.
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