noun
1. a rough and bitter manner
• Syn: ↑bitterness, ↑acrimony, ↑acerbity, ↑jaundice, ↑tartness
• Derivationally related forms: ↑tart (for: ↑tartness), ↑jaundice (for: ↑jaundice), ↑acerbic (for: ↑acerbity), ↑acerbate (for: ↑acerbity), ↑acrimonious (for: ↑acrimony), ↑bitter (for: ↑bitterness)
• Hypernyms: ↑disagreeableness
2. the quality of being covered with prickly thorns or spines
• Syn: ↑prickliness, ↑bristliness, ↑spininess
• Derivationally related forms: ↑thorny, ↑spiny (for: ↑spininess), ↑bristly (for: ↑bristliness), ↑prickly (for: ↑prickliness)
• Hypernyms: ↑roughness, ↑raggedness
Useful english dictionary. 2012.