Acrid vs Irritating - What's the difference?
acrid | irritating |
Sharp and harsh, or bitter and not to the taste; pungent.
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, title= Causing heat and irritation; corrosive.
Caustic; bitter; bitterly irritating.
Causing irritation, annoyance or pain.
Stimulating]] or [[excite, exciting a response.
As adjectives the difference between acrid and irritating
is that acrid is sharp and harsh, or bitter and not to the taste; pungent while irritating is causing irritation, annoyance or pain.As a verb irritating is
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(en-adj)Unspontaneous combustion, passage=Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia. The cheapest way to clear logged woodland is to burn it, producing an acrid cloud of foul white smoke that, carried by the wind, can cover hundreds, or even thousands, of square miles.}}
