Acrid vs Stinging - What's the difference?
acrid | stinging |
Sharp and harsh, or bitter and not to the taste; pungent.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-29, volume=407, issue=8842, page=29, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= Causing heat and irritation; corrosive.
Caustic; bitter; bitterly irritating.
*{{quote-book, year=1892, author=(James Yoxall)
, chapter=5, title= The act by which someone receives a sting.
As adjectives the difference between acrid and stinging
is that acrid is sharp and harsh, or bitter and not to the taste; pungent while stinging is having the capacity to sting.As a verb stinging is
.As a noun stinging is
the act by which someone receives a sting.acrid
English
Adjective
(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.}}
Synonyms
* acerbicAntonyms
*delectable, delicious, tastefulAnagrams
*stinging
English
Verb
(head)The Lonely Pyramid, passage=The desert storm was riding in its strength; the travellers lay beneath the mastery of the fell simoom.
Noun
(en noun)- the stingings of scorpions
- stingings of remorse