acidulous

1. 1.

   being sour to the taste

   Synonymsacidicacidacidulent

   Similarsour

Questions about acidulous

What does acidulous mean?

acidulous means "being sour to the taste".

How many syllables are in acidulous?

acidulous has 4 syllables: a-ci-du-lous. The stress falls on "ci".

What is another word for acidulous?

Close synonyms include acidic, acid, acidulent. 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.

Is acidulous a common word?

acidulous 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.