caustic

caustic is a 7-letter English word with 6 senses as adjective and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Alt. of Caustical. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

7 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 14 · 6 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Alt. of Caustical
2. adjective. Any substance or means which, applied to animal or other organic tissue, burns, corrodes, or destroys it by chemical action; an escharotic.
3. adjective. A caustic curve or caustic surface.
4. noun. any chemical substance that burns or destroys living tissue
5. adjective. of a substance, especially a strong acid; capable of destroying or eating away by chemical action

   Synonyms: corrosive, erosive, mordant, vitriolic

6. adjective. harsh or corrosive in tone

   "an acerbic tone piercing otherwise flowery prose"

   "a barrage of acid comments"

   Synonyms: acerb, acerbic, acid, acrid, bitter, blistering, sulfurous, sulphurous, virulent, vitriolic

Synonyms

corrosive, erosive, mordant, vitriolic, acerb, acerbic, acid, acrid, bitter, blistering, sulfurous, sulphurous, virulent

Common word forms

caustics, caustical, causticly, causticity, causticize, causticness

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