caustic

About 1.57 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Capable of burning, corroding or destroying organic tissue.
2. adjective Sharp, bitter, cutting, biting, and sarcastic in a scathing way.
3. noun Any substance or means which, applied to animal or other organic tissue, burns, corrodes, or destroys it by chemical action; an escharotic.
4. noun The envelope of reflected or refracted rays of light for a given surface or object.
5. noun The envelope of reflected or refracted rays for a given curve.
6. noun Caustic soda.

Similar words

corrosive erosive blistering venomous virulent acid bitter acerb destructive acerbic

Often followed by

soda potash and alkali alkalies lime wit solution in

Word family

caustically causticities causticity caustics