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What is the adjective for acidulously?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs acidify, acidulate, acidise and acidize which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

acid
  1. Sour, sharp, or biting to the taste; tart; having the taste of vinegar.
  2. (figuratively) Sour-tempered.
  3. Of or pertaining to an acid; acidic.
  4. (music) Denoting a musical genre that is a distortion (as if hallucinogenic) of an existing genre, as in acid house, acid jazz, acid rock.
  5. Synonyms:
  6. Examples:
    1. “The sprocket wheels, chains, and other metal parts with which the acid solution may come in contact are covered with asphalt paint or heavy grease in order to retard corrosion.”
      “The milk helps, therefore, to neutralize the acid taste of the wine and clarifies it at the same time.”
      “Her interpretation is perfectly pitched to Catherine's acid sarcasm.”
acidic
  1. (chemistry) Having a pH less than 7, or being sour, or having the strength to neutralize alkalis, or turning a litmus paper red.
  2. (mineralogy) Containing a high percentage of silica; opposed to basic.
  3. Of or relating to acid; having the character of an acid.
  4. Synonyms:
  5. Examples:
    1. “A chemical cleaning is often performed in two stages, first with an acidic solution and then with an alkaline solution.”
      “It has a subtle acidic taste with hints of wood berries.”
      “She was best known for her acidic wit and her quick repartee.”
aciduric
  1. (biology) (of bacteria) growing in acidic medium, but preferring an alkaline medium
acidimetric
  1. (chemistry) Describing a titration in which the titrant is an acid
acidergic
  1. (biochemistry) activated or produced by a (specific) acid
acidotic
  1. (pathology) Having depressed alkalinity of blood or tissue.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Patients with severe falciparum malaria are acidotic and compensate by hyperventilation.”
      “Peripheral rewarming can be associated with shock, acidosis and hyperkalemia when cold, acidotic peripheral blood is returned centrally.”
      “At age 26 months he was referred to the department of gastroenterology, and by then was severely malnourished, hypokalaemic, and acidotic.”
acidulent
  1. Having an acid quality; sour; acidulous.
acidproof
  1. Resistant to the corrosive effects of acid.
acidulous
  1. Slightly sour; sub-acid; sourish.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “A bright and steady color, it charms by its bouquet which intermarries red fruit with a light acidulous taste.”
      “I was frightened, more by the wry laugh that accompanied her words than by the words themselves, or her acidulous tone.”
      “A bright and steady colour, it charms by its bouquet which intermarries red fruit with a light acidulous taste.”
acidophilic
  1. of, relating to, or being an acidophile
  2. Examples:
    1. “When eosin is used as a tissue stain, the acidophilic structures are sometimes referred to as eosinophilic.”
      “The Adiantum venustum needs to be grown in a specific soil for acidophilic plants, soft and with an average drainage.”
      “The cooperatives, undisputed market leaders in the production of acidophilic plants for garden centres, cannot give up on a policy of research.”
acidogenic
  1. That generates acid or acidity.
acidimetrical
  1. Alternative form of acidimetric
acidotropic
  1. That accumulates in acidic environments
acidophilous
  1. That thrives in an acidic environment
acidiferous
  1. Containing or yielding an acid.
acidy
  1. Like an acid, somewhat acid.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “It is a cheap, often fizzy and mostly thin acidy wine with barely more color than a dark rose.”
      “They're a Japanese foursome who play real stony, acidy, '70s-style guitar rock, complete with psychedelic period get-ups.”
      “There's the type of construction, the shock of Vesuvius, the fact that it was buried for centuries in acidy terrain that ate away at the mortar.”
acidless
  1. Without acid.
  2. Synonyms:
acidific
  1. (rare) acidic
acidified
acidifying
acidulated
  1. simple past tense and past participle of acidulate
acidulating
  1. present participle of acidulate
acidised
  1. simple past tense and past participle of acidise
acidized
  1. simple past tense and past participle of acidize
acidizing
  1. present participle of acidize
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