caustic
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- enPR kôs'tĭk, IPA: /ˈkɔːstɪk/, /ˈkɒstɪk/
caustic
- Capable of burning, corroding or destroying organic tissue.
- (of language, etc.) Sharp, bitter, cutting, biting, and sarcastic in a scathing way.
- 1853, Charlotte Brontë, Villette
- Madame Beck esteemed me learned and blue; Miss Fanshawe, caustic, ironic, and cynical
- c. 1930, W.H.Auden, "The Quest"
- though he came too late / To join the martyrs, there was still a place / Among the tempters for a caustic tongue / / To test the resolution of the young / With tales of the small failings of the great
- 1853, Charlotte Brontë, Villette
- (capable of destroying tissue) acidic, biting, burning, corrosive, searing
- (severe, sharp) bitchy, biting, catty, mordacious, nasty, sarcastic, scathing, sharp, spiteful, vitriolic
- German: zersetzend, beißend
- Italian: caustico
- Portuguese: cáustico
- Russian: е́дкий
- Spanish: cáustico
caustic (plural caustics)
- Any substance or means which, applied to animal or other organic tissue, burns, corrodes, or destroys it by chemical action; an escharotic.
- (optics, computer graphics) The envelope of reflected or refracted rays of light for a given surface or object.
- (mathematics) The envelope of reflected or refracted rays for a given curve.
- (informal, chemistry) Caustic soda.
- German: Ätzmittel
- Portuguese: cáustico
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