acid-forming

1. 1.

   yielding an acid in aqueous solution

   Similaracidic

Questions about acid-forming

What does acid-forming mean?

acid-forming means "yielding an acid in aqueous solution".

How many syllables are in acid-forming?

acid-forming has 4 syllables: a-cid--for-ming. The stress falls on "cid-".

Is acid-forming a common word?

acid-forming is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.