Complete Definition of "acidulous"

English

Etymology
Latin acidulus, diminutive of acidus. See Acid.

Adjective
acidulous

  1. Slightly sour; sub-acid; sourish; as an acidulous tincture - Edmund Burke

Quotations
1931: He talked with acidulous tolerance of the exalted personages who had sent Ashenden to X. -- w:William Somerset Maugham|W. Somerset Maugham, His Excellency

Translations
French: acidulé m, acidulée f

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