Usually means: Sharp, bitter in tone, cutting.
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  1. acerbic: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. acerbic: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. acerbic: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. acerbic: Collins English Dictionary
  5. acerbic: Vocabulary.com
  6. Acerbic, acerbic: Wordnik
  7. acerbic: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. acerbic: Wiktionary
  9. acerbic: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. acerbic: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. acerbic: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Acerbic, acerbic: Dictionary.com
  13. Acerbic: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. acerbic: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. acerbic: Rhymezone
  16. acerbic: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. acerbic: Free Dictionary
  18. acerbic: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. acerbic: Dictionary/thesaurus
  20. acerbic: Merriam-Webster.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Epicurus.com Coffee Glossary (No longer online)

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  1. acerbic: Legal dictionary

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  1. acerbic: Encyclopedia

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Coffee Terminology (No longer online)

(Note: See acerbically as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Tasting sour or bitter.
adjective:  (figurative) Sharp, harsh, biting.

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