Caustic

Definitions: Caustic

Caustic

Adjective

1. Harsh or corrosive in tone; "an acerbic tone piercing otherwise flowery prose"; "a barrage of acid comments"; "her acrid remarks make her many enemies"; "bitter words"; "blistering criticism"; "caustic jokes about political assassination, talk-show hosts and medical ethics"; "a sulfurous denunciation".

2. Of a substance, especially a strong acid; capable of destroying or eating away by chemical action.

Noun

1. Any chemical substance that burns or destroys living tissue.

Date "caustic" was first used: 14th century. (references)

Domain	Definitions
Health	An escharotic or corrosive agent. Called also cauterant. (references)
Mining	Capable of destroying the texture of anything or eating away its substanceby chemical action; burning; corrosive. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Caustic

Synonyms: acerb (adj), acerbic (adj), acid (adj), acrid (adj), bitter (adj), blistering (adj), corrosive (adj), erosive (adj), sulfurous (adj), sulphurous (adj), venomous (adj), virulent (adj), vitriolic (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Bitterness	Noun: bitterness, acridness, acridity, acrimony; caustic, alkali; acerbity; gall, wormwood; bitters, astringent bitters.
Calefaction	Cauterizer; caustic, lunar caustic, alkali, apozem, moxa; acid, aqua fortis, aqua regia; catheretic, nitric acid, nitrochloro-hydric acid, nitromuriatic acid; radioactivity, gamma rays, alpha particles, beta rays, X-rays, radiation, cosmic radiation, background radiation, radioactive isotopes, tritium, uranium, plutonium, radon, radium.
Curvature	Carve, arc, arch, arcade, vault, bow, crescent, half-moon, lunule, horseshoe, loop, crane neck; parabola, hyperbola; helix, spiral; catenary, festoon; conchoid, cardioid; caustic; tracery; arched ceiling, arched roof; bay window, bow window.
Discourtesy	Taint, sour, crabbed, sharp, short, trenchant, sarcastic, biting, doggish, caustic, virulent, bitter, acrimonious, venomous, contumelious; snarling; Verb: surly, surly as a bear; perverse; grim, sullen; a; peevish; (irascible).
Feeling	Warm, quick, lively, smart, strong, sharp, acute, cutting, piercing, incisive; keen, keen as a razor; trenchant, pungent, racy, piquant, poignant, caustic.
Malevolence	Malicious; malign, malignant; rancorous; despiteful, spiteful; mordacious, caustic, bitter, envenomed, acrimonious, virulent; unamiable, uncharitable; maleficent, venomous, grinding, galling.
Pain	Sharp, acute, sore, severe, grave, hard, harsh, cruel, biting, caustic; cutting, corroding, consuming, racking, excruciating, searching, grinding, grating, agonizing; envenomed; catheretic, pyrotic.
Physical Energy	Rousing, irritation; poignant; virulent, caustic, corrosive, mordant, harsh, stringent; double-edged, double-shotted, double-distilled; drastic, escharotic; racy; (pungent).
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Caustic

English words defined with "caustic": aback, Ambrose Bierce, Ambrose Gwinett Bierce ♦ Bierce, burn ♦ calcium hydrate, calcium hydroxide, Cashew nut, Catacaustic, Catheretic, Caustic curve, Caustic lime, caustic potash, caustic remark, Caustic silver, Caustic soda, Caustical, caustically, Causticily, Causticness, cauterant, cauterisation, cauterise, Cauterism, cauterization, cauterize, cautery, cellulose xanthate, Clove nutmeg ♦ Diacaustic, Diaeretic ♦ Erodent, Escharotic ♦ Galvanocaustic ♦ hydrated lime ♦ Indol, Infernal stone ♦ Lapis infernalis, lime, lime hydrate, Lithia, London paste, lunar caustic ♦ Metacrolein ♦ Nitrate of silver ♦ Oxalic acid ♦ Potassa, Pyrotic ♦ Resorcin, Rhusma ♦ slaked lime, SLS, sodium hydroxide, sodium lauryl sulfate, sodium lauryl sulphate, stannic chloride ♦ Vienna paste, viscose, vitriolically. (references)

Specialty definitions using "caustic": caustic embrittlement, CAUSTIC OPERATOR ♦ SHIFT SUPERINTENDENT, CAUSTIC CRESYLATE. (references)

Etymologies containing "caustic": Cauter ♦ Galvanocaustic ♦ holocaust. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Caustic" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

Romanian (acerb, acid, acidulous, acrid, acrimonious, biting, caustic, mordant, personal, pungent, pungently, scathing, scorching).

Domain	Title
Books	BIHAR CAUSTIC & CHEMICALS LTD.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (Financial Performance Series) (reference) Caustic Soda (Sodium Hydroxide) [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference) Chlorine and caustic soda manufacture; recent developments, 1969 (reference) Crewel Lye: A Caustic Yarn (reference) If Words Could Kill 2002 Calendar: Big Time Barbs and Caustic Quips (Daily Calendars) [BOX CALENDAR] (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	Caustic Truths (reference) (more periodical examples)

Music	Caustic Grip (reference) Caustic Window:Compilation (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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	Caption: Primary Battery Caustic Soda Dept; Silver Lake, NJ; September 24, 1912; {10.370/43} (jpg).		Pittsburgh Plate Glass Chlorine Plant, New Martinsville, West Virginia. Caustic building, crystallizer.Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Economic History	Australia	Key product segments are chlorine, titanium oxide, sodium cyanide, ammonia (industrial), caustic soda, sulphuric acid, and soda ash. (references)
	Qatar	Objectives: To produce ethylene di-chloride (EDC) 175,000 mtpa, vinyl chloride monomer (VCM) 230,000 mtpa and caustic soda 290,000 mtpa. (references)
	Pakistan	Local production of chemicals largely is confined to soda ash, caustic soda, sulfuric and hydrochloric acid, sodium bicarbonate, liquid chlorine, aluminum sulfate, carbon black, acetone and acetic acid. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Caustic" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 98.44% of the time. "Caustic" is used about 192 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	98.44%	189	22,353
Noun (singular)	1.04%	2	245,945
Noun (proper)	0.52%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	192	N/A

Expressions using "caustic": caustic alkali ♦ caustic ammonia ♦ Caustic curve ♦ caustic lime ♦ caustic potash ♦ caustic remark ♦ Caustic silver ♦ caustic soda ♦ caustic solution ♦ Caustic surface ♦ caustic tongue ♦ lunar caustic ♦ Vienna caustic ♦ white caustic. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "caustic": caustic-soda, caustic-tongued.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "caustic"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		thumbues (biting, stinging), therës (acid, acidly, acrimonious, acute, biting, butcher, cutting, dry, epigrammatic, executioner, exquisite, incisive, keen, nippy, penetrating, peppery, piercing, poignant, sharp, sharp cut, stinging, trenchant), thep (bead, fidget, jag, sharp, viperous), sarkazëm (sarcasm, vitriol), lëndë gërryese (corrodent, corrosive), kaustik, helm (bane, causticity, gall, poison, toxic, venom), gërryes (abradant, abrasive, corrodent, corroding, corrosive, erosive, wasting). (various references)

Arabic		‏كاو (mordant), ‏مادة كاوية, ‏لاذع (acerb, acid, acrid, acrimonious, biting, bitter, bitterly, burning, cutting, harsh, hot, keen, mordant, nippy, peppery, piquant, poignant, pungent, rough, salty, sarcastic, savory, savoury, scathing, scorching, sharp, sharp tongued, smarting, snappish, snappy, spicy, spiteful, stinging, tart, waspish). (various references)

Bulgarian		разяждащ (cankerous, corrosive, mordant, vitriolic), хаплив (acerb, acerbic, acidulous, mordant, peppery, poignant, pungent, scratchy, severe, shrewd, tart), каустичен, каустика, каустик, вещество което разяжда, изгарящ (scorching). (various references)

Chinese		刻薄 (Caustical). (various references)

Czech		sžíravý (abrasive, blistering, mordant, savage), leptavý (corrosive), kousavý (acerbic, acrid, barbed, bitchy, biting, cutting, dry, pointed, scathing, snappy, tart, vitriolic, waspish), kaustický, žíravý (mordant, vitriolic). (various references)

Danish		kaustika, kausticum (caustic substance, caustics, etching materials), ætsende (corrosive). (various references)

Dutch		caustisch (caustic substance), causticus, bijtend (abrasive, corrosive, lurid, sharp). (various references)

Farsi		هجوامیز, تیز (Acute, Bitter, Brisk, Glassy, Hot, Incisive, Keen, Pike, Poignant, Pointy, Pungent, Sharp, Shrill, Trenchant), تند (Discourteous, Fast, Glassy, Harsh, Hasty, Headlong, Heady, Hot, Inflammable, Intensive, Keen, Paregoric, Peppery, Presto, Pungent, Quick, Racy, Rapid, Rash, Slush, Sour, Spicy, Tart, Transient, Violent, Virulent, Wrench, Yare), سوزش اور (Abrasive, Irritant). (various references)

Finnish		syövyttävä aine (caustic substance, corrosive), kaustinen aine (caustic substance). (various references)

French		caustique (caustic substance). (various references)

German		ätzend (acid, acrid, acridly, cauterizing, choking, corrosive, erosive, lousy, mordacious, mordant, pungent), kaustisch. (various references)

Greek		καυστικός (caustic substance, tart). (various references)

Hebrew		מאכל (corroding, corrosive, dish, eating, food, repast), צורב� י (acrimonious), צורב (biting, bitter, burning). (various references)

Hungarian		maró (acrimonious, biting, corrodent, corrosive, lashing, mordant, nipping, poignant, scathing, shrewd, virulent), epés (acrimonious, bilious, jaundiced, liverish, venomous, virulent), égető (acute, burner, burning, exigent, searing). (various references)

Indonesian		zat yang dapat membakar kulit, pedas (acrid, hot, poignant, pungent, seasoned). (various references)

Italian		caustico (caustic substance, mordacious, mordant, scathing). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		苛性 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana		かせい (assistance, backing, change, clearing of the river water, despotism, false, falsetto, force of flames, great poet, growth, honour of the family, household economy, Mars, metamorphosis, reinforcements, section system, transformation, tyranny). (various references)

Korean		부식성 (Caustical, Corrosive). (various references)

Manx		loshtagh (burning, inflammable, lion's mane, smarting). (various references)

Pig Latin		austiccay

Portuguese		caústico, cáustico (corrosive, mordacious, pepper, pungent, tart, virulent), cáustico. (various references)

Romanian		corosiv (biting, corrosive, cutting), caustic (acerb, acid, acidulous, acrid, acrimonious, biting, mordant, personal, pungent, pungently, scathing, scorching), substanţã causticã, sarcastic (acrid, biting, caustically, cynical, lashing, mordacious, sarcastic, sarcastically, sardonic, satiric, severe, sharp, sneering, tart, taunting), muşcãtor (acid, acrid, acrimonious, biting, mordant, peppery, sarcastic, snappish), ţepos (hirsute, rough, spiky, spiny, stinging, thorny). (various references)

Russian		едкий (acerb, acerbic, acrid, biting, corrosive, mordant, poignant, pungent, scalding, scathing, sulphurous, tart, vitriolic). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		zajedljivost (acridity, mordacity, poignancy), kaustičan, jetkost (acridity, acrimony, sourness), jetka materija, jedak (acidulous, acrid, acrimonious, astringent, biting, bitter, scathing, sharp, sour, vitriolic). (various references)

Spanish		cáustico (acrid, acrimonious, biting, caustic substance, mordacious, scathing, vitriolic). (various references)

Swedish		brännande (ardent, burning, crucial, fiery, parching, searing, sharp, vital). (various references)

Thai		สารที่ใช้ละลายสารอื่น, ซึ่งสามารถทำลายหรือกั�"กร่อนไ�"้, ซึ่งถากถาง. (various references)

Turkish		yakıcı madde, kostik, kezzap (aqua fortis, nitric acid, vitriol). (various references)

Ukranian		уїдливість (acridity, acrimony, causticity, cavil, jibe, mordacity, taunt), уїдливий (acid, acrid, acrimonious, arrowy, barbed, biting, carping, cattish, epigrammatic, exceptive, fault finding, mordacious, mordant, pointed, smart, spiteful, waspish, waspy), ущипливий (acid, acrid, acrimonious, arrowy, barbed, cutting, nipping, pointed, stinging, tart), сарказм (sarcasm, squib), їдка речовина (corrosive), їдкий (acid, acrid, acrimonious, corrosive, nipping, poignant, scalding, scathing), руйнівний (abolitionary, consumptive, destructive, deteriorative, erosive, exterminatory, holocaustal, holocaustic, ruinous, shattering, subversive, wrecking), що роз'їда�" (cankerous, corrodent, rodent), колючий (arrowy, barbed, briery, bristling, cutting, prickly, pricky, punching, spiky, spiny, thistly, thorny), каустичний, дошкульність (mordacity). (various references)

Vietnamese		châm biếm; cay độc (caustically). (various references)

Welsh		cignoeth. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Greek	700 BCE-300 CE	kaustikos. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "caustic": caustically, causticities, causticity, caustics. (additional references)
	Words ending with "caustic": encaustic. (additional references)
	Words containing "caustic": encaustics. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Caustic" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: accustic, acustic, austic, Austick, caotic, causic, caust, caustick, cauti, cautic, clausit, Cosstick, costic, Costica, Coulstock, kaustos, Kostick, Kostika, kosutic, suastic. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "caustic" (pronounced kÄ"stik)
5	-Ä" s t i k	agnostic, diagnostic.
4	-s t i k	acoustic, altruistic, anachronistic, antagonistic, artistic, atavistic, atheistic, autistic, ballistic, bombastic, capitalistic, characteristic, chauvinistic, coloristic, cystic, deterministic, domestic, drastic, drumstick, dualistic, dynastic, ecclesiastic, elastic, enthusiastic, euphemistic, evangelistic, expressionistic, fantastic, fatalistic, feudalistic, futuristic, gymnastic, hedonistic, holistic, humanistic, iconoclastic, idealistic, imperialistic, impressionistic, individualistic, inelastic, interscholastic, jingoistic, journalistic, legalistic, linguistic, logistic, majestic, masochistic, materialistic, mechanistic, militaristic, monastic, monopolistic, moralistic, mystic, narcissistic, nationalistic, naturalistic, novelistic, oligopolistic, onomastic, opportunistic, optimistic, pantheistic, paternalistic, patristic, pessimistic, plastic, pluralistic, polytheistic, primitivistic, propagandistic, puristic, realistic, relativistic, ritualistic, rustic, sadistic, sarcastic, scholastic, sensationalistic, simplistic, socialistic, statistic, stylistic, surrealistic, synergistic, terroristic, thermoplastic, uncharacteristic, unenthusiastic, unrealistic, voyeuristic.
3	-t i k	acetic, acrobatic, aerobatic, aesthetic, alphabetic, amniotic, analytic, anesthetic, Antarctic, antibiotic, antic, anticlimactic, antiseptic, aortic, apathetic, apocalyptic, apologetic, apoplectic, aquatic, arctic, aristocratic, arithmetic, aromatic, arthritic, ascetic, asthmatic, astronautic, asymptomatic, athletic, attic, authentic, autocratic, automatic, axiomatic, bureaucratic, catalytic, cathartic, chaotic, charismatic, chiropractic, cinematic, climactic, climatic, cosmetic, critic, cryptic, cultic, democratic, dendritic, despotic, diabetic, diagrammatic, dialectic, diamagnetic, didactic, dietetic, diplomatic, diuretic, dogmatic, dramatic, eclectic, ecliptic, ecstatic, electrolytic, electromagnetic, electrostatic, emblematic, emetic, empathetic, emphatic, energetic, enigmatic, enzymatic, epigenetic, epileptic, erotic, erratic, exotic, extragalactic, fanatic, ferromagnetic, fiberoptic, frantic, frenetic, galactic, genetic, geomagnetic, gigantic, granitic, halophytic, hectic, hemolytic, hepatic, heretic, hermaphroditic, homeostatic, homiletic, hyperkinetic, hypnotic, idiomatic, idiosyncratic, idiotic, kinesthetic, kinetic, lactic, lymphatic, magnetic, mathematic, melodramatic, monochromatic, narcotic, neritic, neurotic, numismatic, operatic, optic, orthodontic, pancreatic, paralytic, paramagnetic, parasitic, parasympathetic, parthenogenetic, pathetic, patriotic, pectic, pedantic, peptic, peripatetic, phonetic, phosphatic, pneumatic, poetic, porphyritic, posttraumatic, pragmatic, prismatic, problematic, programmatic, prophetic, prophylactic, prostatic, prosthetic, psychoanalytic, psychosomatic, psychotherapeutic, psychotic, quixotic, rheumatic, robotic, romantic, schematic, semantic, semiautomatic, semiotic, septic, skeptic, static, sycophantic, symbiotic, sympathetic, symptomatic, synthetic, systematic, tactic, technocratic, thematic, theocratic, therapeutic, thrombolytic, transatlantic, traumatic, triptych, unapologetic, unauthentic, undemocratic, undiplomatic, unpatriotic, unsympathetic.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-c-i-s-t-u"
	-1 letter: cactus.
	-2 letters: cacti, cutis, ictus, scuta.
	-3 letters: acts, aits, asci, cast, cats, cist, cuts, sati, scat, scut, suit, taus, tics, tuis, utas.
	-4 letters: act, ais, ait, cat, cis, cut, its, sac, sat, sau, sic, sit, tas, tau, tic, tis, tui, uta, uts.
	-5 letters: ai, as, at, is, it, si, ta, ti, us, ut.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-c-i-s-t-u"
	+1 letter: acoustic, caustics.
	+2 letters: acoustics, casuistic, encaustic, subarctic, succinate.
	+3 letters: accusation, accusative, acoustical, caducities, causticity, circulates, encaustics, inculcates, practicums, subarctics, succinates.
	+4 letters: accountings, accusations, accusatives, accustoming, acoustician, acquiescent, autocracies, buccinators, caricatures, casuistical, caustically, circulators, contumacies, coruscating, coruscation, cunctations, disaccustom, eucharistic, excruciates, fasciculate, inculcators, inductances, obscurantic, occupations, sacculation, subcortical, subcritical.
	+5 letters: acoustically, acousticians, acquittances, articulacies, bioacoustics, calculations, caricaturist, causticities, charcuteries, chauvinistic, circulations, circumstance, coadjutrices, cocultivates, coeducations, communicants, communicates, conjunctivas, continuances, contumacious, coruscations, disaccustoms, fasciculated, inculcations, miscalculate, occultations, pectinaceous, plutocracies, recirculates, reluctancies, sacculations, sansculottic, secularistic, subantarctic.
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

43 61 75 73 74 69 63

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-.-. .- ..- ... - .. -.-.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000011 01100001 01110101 01110011 01110100 01101001 01100011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#97 &#117 &#115 &#116 &#105 &#99

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 0061 0075 0073 0074 0069 0063

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

Country	Name
India	Bihar Caustic & Chemicals Ltd.
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Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
caustic soda	92	caustic flake potash	3
caustic	38	caustic manufacturer soda	3
caustic christ	9	caustic price soda	3
caustic chemical descaling	8	caustic definition	2
caustic soda flake	7	caustic scrubber	2
caustic ingestion	7	caustic chemical	2
caustic potash	7	caustic pearl soda	2
caustic resin	5	caustic chart flow production soda	2
caustic truth	4	caustic msds	2
caustic soda use	4	caustic soda bead	2
caustic chart diagram flow production soda	4	bluing caustic hot	2
caustic msds soda	4	boiler caustic corrosion	2
acid caustic	4	caustic wholesaler	2
caustic production soda	3	caustic solution	2
caustic liquid soda	3	25 caustic soda solution	2
burn caustic	3
		25 caustic soda solution	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Caustic

Definitions: Caustic

Caustic

Adjective

Noun

Specialty Definitions: Caustic

Synonyms: Caustic

Synonyms within Context: Caustic

Bitterness

Calefaction

Curvature

Discourtesy

Feeling

Malevolence

Pain

Physical Energy

Crosswords: Caustic

Commercial Usage: Caustic

Books

Periodicals

Music

Photo Album: Caustic

Non-Fiction Usage: Caustic

Usage Frequency: Caustic

Usage in Company Names: Caustic

Bihar Caustic & Chemicals Ltd.

Expressions: Caustic

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Caustic

25 caustic soda solution

Modern Translations: Caustic

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Japanese Kanji

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Ancestral Language Translations: Caustic

Derivations & Misspellings: Caustic

Derivations

Misspellings

Rhyming with "Caustic"

Anagrams: Caustic

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Alternative Orthography: Caustic

43 61 75 73 74 69 63

-.-. .- ..- ... - .. -.-.

01000011 01100001 01110101 01110011 01110100 01101001 01100011

&#67 &#97 &#117 &#115 &#116 &#105 &#99

0043 0061 0075 0073 0074 0069 0063

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