ALL meanings of caustic
caus·tic
C c - adjective caustic Caustic chemical substances are very powerful and can dissolve other substances. 3
- adjective caustic A caustic remark is extremely critical, cruel, or bitter. 3
- adjective caustic capable of burning or corroding by chemical action 3
- adjective caustic sarcastic; cutting 3
- adjective caustic of, relating to, or denoting light that is reflected or refracted by a curved surface 3
- noun caustic a surface that envelops the light rays reflected or refracted by a curved surface 3
- noun caustic a curve formed by the intersection of a caustic surface with a plane 3
- noun caustic a caustic substance, esp an alkali 3
- adjective caustic that can burn, eat away, or destroy tissue by chemical action; corrosive 3
- adjective caustic cutting or sarcastic in utterance; biting 3
- adjective caustic designating or of the curved radial surface, or a plane curve in this surface, formed by the reflection or refraction of rays from a curved solid surface 3
- noun caustic any caustic substance, esp. caustic soda 3
- noun caustic a caustic surface or curve 3
- adjective caustic capable of burning, corroding, or destroying living tissue. 1
- adjective caustic severely critical or sarcastic: a caustic remark. 1
- noun caustic a caustic substance. 1
- noun caustic Optics. caustic curve. caustic surface. 1
- noun caustic Able to burn or corrode organic tissue by chemical action. 1
- adjective caustic substance: corrosive 1
- adjective caustic remark, wit: cutting 1
- noun caustic Any substance or means which, applied to animal or other organic tissue, burns, corrodes, or destroys it by chemical action; an escharotic. 0
- noun caustic (optics, computer graphics) The envelope of reflected or refracted rays of light for a given surface or object. 0
- noun caustic (mathematics) The envelope of reflected or refracted rays for a given curve. 0
- noun caustic (Informal) (chemistry) caustic soda. 0
- adjective caustic Capable of burning, corroding or destroying organic tissue. 0
- adjective caustic (of language, etc.) Sharp, bitter, cutting, biting, and sarcastic in a scathing way. 0