What are the antonyms for ACRIMONIOUS?
- caring, mild, peaceable, loving, warmhearted, pleasant, kindly, kindhearted, honeyed, tender, unbitter, saccharine, kind, unresentful, luscious, happy, dulcet, helping, nice, Nectared, forgiving, warm.
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Synonyms for ACRIMONIOUS
- cruel,
- austere,
- hardnosed,
- angry,
- bitter as gall,
- irritated,
- venomous,
- harmful,
- vituperative,
- prudish,
- wrath,
- meticulous,
- rancorous,
- discourteous,
- edgy,
- rigorously,
- taint,
- swashbuckler,
- compel,
- Exceptive,
- withering,
- sulfurous,
- carping,
- grumpy,
- decorate,
- weisenheiming,
- grousing,
- defamatory,
- incensed,
- trouble is brewing (for),
- prickly,
- snappy,
- corroding,
- malefic,
- ironfisted,
- fretful,
- stormy,
- crotchety,
- currish,
- ill-disposed,
- liquor,
- sarcastic,
- unpleasant,
- short-tempered,
- raucously,
- pitilessly,
- Vellicating,
- seasoned,
- bitter,
- in blue funk,
- acidulent,
- ill-tempered,
- cutting,
- resentful,
- grim,
- disgruntled,
- acerbate,
- salter,
- Houston, we have a problem,
- sharp,
- unforgiving,
- poisonous,
- stinging,
- bellicose,
- minute,
- quarrelsome,
- brutally,
- draconian,
- oppressive,
- unpromising,
- annoyed,
- rigorous,
- spirits,
- slanderous,
- biting,
- unsatisfied,
- unsweetened,
- Ridiculing,
- ill-natured,
- impolite,
- critical,
- unsavory,
- peeved,
- gloomy,
- pungent,
- Rankled,
- importance,
- ale,
- apportion,
- Unamiable,
- petty,
- incisive,
- sever,
- dour,
- disagreeable,
- cool,
- incise,
- strictly,
- down in the dumps,
- despiteful,
- peremptory,
- cut into,
- down in mouth,
- in a bad mood,
- retributive,
- sulphurous,
- speech,
- cut,
- exacting,
- unkindly,
- reproachful,
- censorious,
- bit,
- malicious,
- spiteful,
- belligerent,
- invidious,
- obdurate,
- hardscrabble,
- tartness,
- burned up,
- vitriolic,
- roughly,
- coldblooded,
- razor-like,
- severely,
- grouchy,
- sharpened,
- carve,
- characteristic,
- intolerant,
- unsparing,
- puritanical,
- disdainful,
- wrathful,
- double-edged,
- acrid,
- grinding,
- racy,
- Chuffy,
- fierce,
- seeing red,
- hard,
- dry,
- mocking,
- rapier-like,
- damaging,
- up set,
- sore,
- peevish,
- Escharotic,
- sharply,
- ill-humoured,
- hoarsely,
- malignant,
- trenchant,
- nasty,
- raspingly,
- unbending,
- scathing,
- acid,
- inflexible,
- over critical,
- full-flavored,
- stark,
- brick-wall,
- sullen,
- taste,
- unkind,
- scoffing,
- furious,
- punitive,
- Searing,
- anti-social,
- sternly,
- heated,
- sardonic,
- hardly,
- bitters,
- bent out of shape,
- testy,
- retaliatory,
- chilly,
- savage,
- astringent,
- short,
- edged,
- excoriating,
- Meracious,
- ireful,
- booze,
- bilious,
- penetrating,
- ill-humored,
- huffy,
- zesty,
- rioter,
- ferocious,
- cranky,
- barbed,
- contrive,
- import,
- strong,
- choleric,
- bearish,
- keen,
- rotten,
- stabbing,
- spartan,
- inscribe,
- severe,
- scorching,
- strident,
- dead set on,
- splenetic,
- Envenomed,
- grumpish,
- brisk,
- waspish,
- austerely,
- Aspersive,
- irascible,
- hostile,
- wither,
- Cavillous,
- mark,
- cynical,
- uncivil,
- mean,
- begrudging,
- clear cut,
- time,
- sourness,
- sourly,
- in a huff,
- nit-picking,
- aculeate,
- flash,
- in the wrong place at the wrong time,
- hate,
- weight,
- virulent,
- rudely,
- peppery,
- acidic,
- emboss,
- A,
- unneighborly,
- unfriendly,
- bluff,
- crabbed,
- bleak,
- wroth,
- spare,
- riled,
- knife-edged,
- hot,
- harshly,
- surly,
- jiffy,
- etch,
- angry and bitter,
- sulky,
- in bad mood,
- scornful,
- caustic,
- gamy,
- slashing,
- precise,
- hurtful,
- sour,
- down in dumps,
- irritable,
- by numbers,
- nocent,
- blistering,
- razor-sharp,
- acrimonious,
- mordacious,
- shrewish,
- having blue devils,
- unwelcoming,
- authoritarian,
- abrasive,
- touchy,
- tearaway,
- vinegary,
- captious,
- antagonistic,
- consequence,
- blunt,
- discontented,
- crusty,
- moment,
- acerb,
- curt,
- malevolent,
- having the blahs,
- terse,
- petulant,
- disciplined,
- Doggish,
- contentious,
- Iron-fisted,
- imperial,
- scandalous,
- retaliative,
- piercing,
- lurid,
- rigid,
- hard as nails,
- ill-flavored,
- cantankerous,
- begruding,
- gruff,
- perverse,
- and Irish cranky,
- acetose,
- poignant,
- acerbic,
- obstinate,
- acute,
- unpalatable,
- vengeful,
- vehement,
- violent,
- stringently,
- acetous,
- hothead,
- galling,
- unforeseen,
- bad-tempered,
- dissatisfied,
- fundamental,
- uncharitable,
- ill,
- vicious,
- Resenting,
- icy,
- worked up,
- spicy,
- malign,
- matter,
- abusive,
- maleficent,
- pettish,
- rude,
- unhappy,
- Snarling,
- ironic,
- unsweet,
- crisp,
- behaviour,
- uneasy,
- mad,
- curmudgeonly,
- burning,
- form,
- contemptuous,
- harsh,
- high-tasted,
- abrupt,
- relentless,
- acidity,
- stern,
- hooligan,
- tetchy,
- correct,
- Mumpish,
- indignant,
- strait-laced,
- vindictive,
- irked,
- provoked,
- contumelious,
- adopt,
- raw,
- mordant,
- strict,
- rigidly,
- the matter,
- nasty-tempered,
- envious,
- snappish,
- cross,
- uncompromising,
- demanding,
- querulous,
- tart,
- hardboiled,
- gratingly,
- by the book,
- hidebound,
- ascetic,
- rough,
- basic,
- ingoing,
- embittered,
- retributory,
- with chip on shoulder,
- degrade,
- intense,
- upset,
- impatient,
- stiff-necked,
- hectic,
- lean,
- pointed,
- sneering,
- displeased,
- design,
- waspy,
- morose,
- acidulous,
- hew,
- smart alecky,
- cruelly,
- Oppugnant,
- corrosive,
- crabby,
- agitated,
- derisory,
- irate,
- scorcher,
- Wrathy,
- provide,
- jealous,
- one thing after another,
- derisive,
- anti,
- Fault-finding,
- brusque,
- wounding,
- singing the blues,
- frosty,
- it's not someone's day,
- satiric,
- love,
- brick wall,
- attitude,
- hateful,
- stewing,
- heavy,
- out-of-sorts,
- ungentle,
- soured,
- Piqued,
- perversive,
- Cavilling,
- high-,
- high pressure,
- piquant,
- stringent,
- churlish,
- engrave,
- High-seasoned.
Usage Examples for ACRIMONIOUS
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Rival aspirants appeared in the ecclesiastical arena; acrimonious contests ensued; adherents were bought; competitors insulted; votes extorted by threats; Rome polluted with blood; and the peace of Christendom endangered. - "Monks, Popes, and their Political Intrigues" by John Alberger
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Previous movements toward liturgical revision have been of a more or less partisan and acrimonious temper. - "A Short History of the Book of Common Prayer" by William Reed Huntington
