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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024caus•tic /ˈkɔstɪk/USA pronunciation adj. - capable of burning, corroding, or destroying living tissue:Acid is caustic.
- severely critical or sarcastic: caustic remarks.
caus•ti•cal•ly, adv. WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024caus•tic (kô′stik),USA pronunciation adj. - capable of burning, corroding, or destroying living tissue.
- severely critical or sarcastic:a caustic remark.
n. - a caustic substance.
- Optics
- See caustic curve.
- See caustic surface.
- Greek kaustikós burning, caustic, equivalent. to kaust(ós) burnt (verb, verbal adjective, adjectival of kaíein to burn) + -ikos -ic
- Latin causticus
- 1350–1400; Middle English
- 2.See corresponding entry in Unabridged biting, mordant, bitter, scathing, acid.
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: caustic /ˈkɔːstɪk/ adj - capable of burning or corroding by chemical action: caustic soda
- sarcastic; cutting: a caustic reply
n - Also called: caustic surface a surface that envelops the light rays reflected or refracted by a curved surface
- Also called: caustic curve a curve formed by the intersection of a caustic surface with a plane
- a caustic substance, esp an alkali
Etymology: 14th Century: from Latin causticus, from Greek kaustikos, from kaiein to burnˈcaustically adv causticity /kɔːˈstɪsɪtɪ/ n |