acrimonious
C1CEFR level
65/100Rarity: rare
FormalRegister
General adjective
Angry and bitter in tone or manner, especially in a dispute.
The negotiations collapsed into an acrimonious exchange of accusations.
Law adjective
Marked by bitterness and sharp resentment.
After an acrimonious exchange over disclosure, the parties agreed to a neutral evaluator.
Business adjective
Marked by bitterness and angry hostility.
The partnership ended in an acrimonious dispute over who owned the client list.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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