caustic
Meaning of caustic
- Any substance or means which, applied to animal or other organic tissue, burns, corrodes, or destroys it by chemical action; an escharotic.
- The envelope of reflected or refracted rays of light for a given surface or object.
- The envelope of reflected or refracted rays for a given curve.
- Caustic soda.
- Capable of burning, corroding or destroying organic tissue.
- (of language, etc.) Sharp, bitter, cutting, biting, and sarcastic in a scathing way.
Information about caustic
- The plural form of caustic is: caustics.
- Languages in which caustic is used:
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Hyphenation of caustic
caus-tic
- It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
- caustic is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
caustic synonyms
Meaning acerb:
acerb, acerbic, acid, acrid, bitter, blistering, sulfurous, sulphurous, venomous, virulent, vitriolic
Meaning corrosive:
corrosive, erosive, vitriolic, mordant
Meaning :
acidic, biting, burning, searing, bitchy, catty, mordacious, nasty, sarcastic, scathing, sharp, spiteful
Translation of caustic
- Italian: acido, caustico, aspro
- German: scharf, bitter, heftig, beißend, erbittert, virulent
- Spanish: cáustico, cáustica
Anagrams of caustic
Words that rhyme with caustic
Hesychastic, Hudibrastic, Iastic, Mastic, Neoplastic, Permlastic, Phantasiastic, Scholastic, Silastic, achondroplastic, aclastic, aeroelastic, agelastic, agranuloplastic, alloplastic, ameloblastic, aminoplastic, amphiblastic, amyloclastic, amyloplastic, anaclastic, anaeroplastic, anankastic, anaplastic, anelastic, anemoclastic, anergastic, anerythroplastic, angioblastic, angioimmunoblastic, angiospastic, animastic, antiblastic, anticlastic, antidynastic, antiecclesiastic, antienthusiastic, antineoplastic, antiorgastic, antipastic, antiphrastic, antiplastic, antischolastic, antispastic, antonomastic, aplastic, archecclesiastic, archiblastic, arthroplastic, atmoclastic