Arid vs Acrid - What's the difference?
arid | acrid |
Very dry.
Describing a very dry climate. Typically defined as less than 25 cm or 10 inches of rainfall annually.
Devoid of value.
Sharp and harsh, or bitter and not to the taste; pungent.
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Caustic; bitter; bitterly irritating.
As adjectives the difference between arid and acrid
is that arid is very dry while acrid is sharp and harsh, or bitter and not to the taste; pungent.arid
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(en-adj) (wikipedia arid)Quotations
* 1956 — , The City and the Stars , p 37 *: Such occupations might have seemed arid to those who did not possess the intellect to appreciate their subtleties.See also
* semiaridAnagrams
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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.}}