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Discuss Email this Feedback RSS/XML Permalink A.Word.A.Day--acidulous This week's theme: words from chemistry. acidulous (a-SIJ-uh-luhs) adjective Somewhat sour in taste or in manner. [From Latin acidulus (slightly sour), diminutive of acidus (sour), from acere (to be sour). Ultimately from the Indo-European root ak- (sharp) that's also the source of acrid, vinegar, acid, acute, edge, hammer, heaven, eager, oxygen, and mediocre.] Today's word in Visual Thesaurus. -Anu Garg (garg wordsmith.org) "Like Munroe, she permitted herself no grand, expressive gestures, but then this is a wry, acidulous work. Justin Davidson; The Virtuosos of the Philharmonic; Newsday (New York); Feb 5, 1996. X-Bonus Whenever morality is based on theology, whenever right is made dependent on divine authority, the most immoral, unjust, infamous things can be justified and established. -Ludwig Feuerbach, philosopher (1804-1872)

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