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Disagreeable vs Acrid - What's the difference?

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Disagreeable is a related term of acrid.


As adjectives the difference between disagreeable and acrid

is that disagreeable is not agreeable, conformable, or congruous; contrary; unsuitable while acrid is sharp and harsh, or bitter and not to the taste; pungent.

As a noun disagreeable

is something displeasing; anything that is disagreeable.

disagreeable

English

(Webster 1913)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Not agreeable, conformable, or congruous; contrary; unsuitable.
    • (rfdate) Preach you truly the doctrine which you have received, and teach nothing that is disagreeable thereunto. --Udall.
  • Exciting repugnance; offensive to the feelings or senses; displeasing; unpleasant.
    • (rfdate) That which is disagreeable''' to one is many times agreeable to another, or '''disagreeable in a less degree. --Wollaston.

    Usage notes

    * Nouns to which "disagreeable" is often applied: odor, smell, taste, sensation, thing, person, man, woman, duty, work, feeling, manner, experience, effect, feature, business, surprise, job.

    Antonyms

    * agreeable

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Something displeasing; anything that is disagreeable.
  • * 1855 , Blackwood's magazine (volume 77, page 331)
    • The disagreeables of travelling are necessary evils, to be encountered for the sake of the agreeables of resting and looking round you.

    acrid

    English

    Adjective

    (en-adj)
  • 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= 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.}}
  • Causing heat and irritation; corrosive.
  • Caustic; bitter; bitterly irritating.

    • Synonyms

    * acerbic

    Antonyms

    *delectable, delicious, tasteful

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