acidic

Questions about acidic

What does acidic mean?

acidic means "being or containing an acid; of a solution having an excess of hydrogen atoms (having a pH of less than 7)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in acidic?

acidic has 3 syllables: a-cid-ic. The stress falls on "cid". In IPA it is /əˈsɪdɪk/.

What is another word for acidic?

Close synonyms include acid, acidulent, acidulous. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of acidic?

The recorded antonyms are alkaline, amphoteric.

Is acidic a common word?

acidic is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with acidic?

1 word rhymes with acidic. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.