Caustic

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Capable of burning, corroding, dissolving, or eating away by chemical action.
  • adj. Corrosive and bitingly trenchant; cutting. See Synonyms at sarcastic.
  • adj. Causing a burning or stinging sensation, as from intense emotion: "Most of all, there is caustic shame for my own stupidity” ( Scott Turow).
  • n. A caustic material or substance.
  • n. A hydroxide of a light metal.
  • n. The enveloping surface formed by light rays reflecting or refracting from a curved surface, especially one with spherical aberration.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Capable of burning, corroding or destroying organic tissue
  • adj. sharp, bitter, cutting, biting, sarcastic
  • n. Any substance or means which, applied to animal or other organic tissue, burns, corrodes, or destroys it by chemical action; an escharotic.
  • n. The envelope of reflected or refracted rays of light for a given surface or object.
  • n. The envelope of reflected or refracted rays for a given curve.
  • n. caustic soda
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Capable of destroying the texture of anything or eating away its substance by chemical action; burning; corrosive; searing.
  • adj. Severe; satirical; sharp.
  • n. Any substance or means which, applied to animal or other organic tissue, burns, corrodes, or destroys it by chemical action; an escharotic.
  • n. A caustic curve or caustic surface.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Capable of burning, corroding, or destroying the tissue of animal substances. See causticity.
  • Figuratively, severely critical or sarcastic; cutting: as, a caustic remark.
  • The curved surface to which all the rays of a conical pencil of light entering a refractive medium are tangential.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. any chemical substance that burns or destroys living tissue
  • adj. harsh or corrosive in tone
  • adj. of a substance, especially a strong acid; capable of destroying or eating away by chemical action
  • Equivalent
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    burning    corrosive    searing    severe    satirical    sharp    escharotic    catacaustic    diacaustic   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    agnostic    diagnostic   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    sarcastic    scathing    pungent    sardonic    satirical    corrosive    incisive    flippant    acidic    acrimonious