acidic

English

Etymology

acid +‎ -ic. Doublet of acidy.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /əˈsɪdɪk/, enPR: əsĭdʹĭk

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Hyphenation: a‧cid‧ic

Adjective

acidic (comparative more acidic, superlative most acidic)

1. (chemistry) Having a pH less than 7, or being sour, or having the strength to neutralize alkalis, or turning a litmus paper red.
2. (petrology) Containing a high percentage of silica-bearing minerals; opposed to basic.
3. Of or relating to acid; having the character of an acid.

   an acidic solution

Synonyms

• acid

Antonyms

• (antonym(s) of “having pH less than 7”): basic

Derived terms

• acidically
• aminoacidic
• anacidic
• diacidic
• glial fibrillary acidic protein
• hyperacidic
• hypoacidic
• monoacidic
• nonacidic
• overacidic
• peracidic
• polyacidic
• subacidic
• thermoacidic
• triacidic
• unacidic

 

Translations

chemistry: having pH less than 7

• Asturian: ácidu (ast)
• Belarusian: кі́слы m (kísly)
• Catalan: àcid (ca)
• Finnish: hapan (fi)
• French: acide (fr)
• Galician: ácido (gl)
• German: sauer (de)
• Greek: όξινος (el) (óxinos)
• Hebrew: חֻמְצִי (ẖumtzí)
• Hungarian: savas (hu)
• Irish: aigéadach
• Italian: acido (it)
• Malayalam: അമ്ല (ml) (amla)
• Old English: āfor
• Polish: kwasowy (pl)
• Portuguese: ácido (pt)
• Romanian: acid (ro)
• Russian: кисло́тный (ru) (kislótnyj), ки́слый (ru) (kíslyj)
• Serbo-Croatian: kȉseo (sh)
• Spanish: ácido (es)
• Swedish: sur (sv), syrlig (sv)
• Tagalog: malala
• Turkish: asidik (tr)
• Ukrainian: кисло́тний (kyslótnyj), ки́слий (uk) (kýslyj)

petrology: containing a high percentage of silica-bearing minerals

• Catalan: àcid (ca)
• Finnish: hapan (fi)
• French: ^{(please verify)} acide (fr)
• Irish: aigéadach
• Romanian: acid (ro)
• Serbo-Croatian: kȉseo (sh)

of or relating to acid

• Asturian: ácidu (ast)
• Belarusian: кі́слы m (kísly)
• Catalan: àcid (ca)
• Esperanto: acida (eo)
• Finnish: hapan (fi)
• French: acide (fr)
• Galician: ácido (gl)
• Greek: όξινος (el) (óxinos)
• Hungarian: savas (hu)
• Irish: aigéadach
• Norwegian: syrlig (no)
• Old English: āfor
• Portuguese: ácido (pt)
• Romanian: acid (ro)
• Russian: кисло́тный (ru) (kislótnyj), ки́слый (ru) (kíslyj)
• Serbo-Croatian: kisèlīnskī (sh)
• Spanish: ácido (es)
• Swedish: syra-, syrlig (sv)
• Turkish: asidik (tr)
• Ukrainian: кисло́тний (kyslótnyj)

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Translations to be checked

• German: ^{(please verify)} sauer (de), ^{(please verify)} säurehaltig (de)
• Guaraní: ^{(please verify)} ái (t-)
• Indonesian: ^{(please verify)} asam (id), ^{(please verify)} bersifat asam
• Interlingua: ^{(please verify)} acide
• Italian: ^{(please verify)} acido (it)
• Japanese: ^{(please verify)} 酸性さんせい (ja) (さんせい, sansei)
• Tupinambá: ^{(please verify)} aî (t-)

References

• “acidic”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Interlingua

Adjective

acidic (not comparable)

1. acidic, acid

Related terms

• acido