Abrasive

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Causing abrasion: scratched the stovetop with an abrasive cleanser.
  • adj. Harsh and rough in manner: an unpleasant, abrasive personality.
  • n. A substance that abrades.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Rock fragments, sand grains, mineral particles, used by water, wind, and ice to abrade a land surface.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Producing abrasion.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Tending to produce abrasion; having the property of abrading; abradant.
  • n. Any material having abrading qualities; an abradant.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. causing abrasion
  • n. a substance that abrades or wears down
  • adj. sharply disagreeable; rigorous
    • Equivalent
    unsmooth    rough    disagreeable   
    Antonym
    lubricant   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    abradent    scrapy    fretting    graty    abrader   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    invasive    persuasive    pervasive   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    gritty    corrosive    powdery    caustic    brash   
     
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