acrimony

English

Etymology

From Middle French acrimonie, from Latin ācrimōnia (“sharpness, pungency”).

Pronunciation

• Audio (US):

  (file)

Noun

acrimony (countable and uncountable, plural acrimonies)

1. A sharp and bitter hatred.

   Her acrimony for her neighbors manifests itself with shouting and stomping.

   • 2018 November 3, Phil McNulty, “Arsenal 1 - 1 Liverpool”, in BBC Sport‎^[1]:

     Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp was prepared to play a game of patience to land Virgil van Dijk after his initial move to sign the Netherlands captain from Southampton in the summer of 2017 ended in acrimony.

   • 1826, Mary Shelley, chapter 12, in The Last Man:

     In her resentful mood, these expressions had been remembered with acrimony and disdain; [...].

Synonyms

• animosity
• bitterness
• enmity
• hatred
• opposition

Antonyms

• friendship
• peace

Related terms

• acrimonious

Translations

bitter hatred

• Catalan: acrimònia f
• Czech: rozhořčenost f, strohost f, jízlivost f
• Finnish: katkeruus (fi)
• Galician: acritude (gl) f, acrimonia f
• German: Verbitterung (de) f, bitterer Hass m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Korean: 호됨 (hodoem)
• Latin: acrimonia f
• Portuguese: acrimónia (pt) f (Portugal), acrimônia (pt) f (Brazil)
• Romanian: acrimonie (ro) f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: о̀го̄рчено̄ст f

  Roman: ògōrčenōst (sh) f

• Sicilian: acrimonia f
• Spanish: acrimonia (es) f