Helen Fenton

Caustic: Definition and part of speech

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Caustic

  1. a. Alt. of Caustical
  2. a. Any substance or means which, applied to animal or other organic tissue, burns, corrodes, or destroys it by chemical action; an escharotic.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Caustical: Definition and part of speech

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Caustical

  1. a. Severe; satirical; sharp; as, a caustic remark.
  2. a. Capable of destroying the texture of anything or eating away its substance by chemical action; burning; corrosive; searing.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Causticily: Definition and part of speech

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Causticily

  1. n. Severity of language; sarcasm; as, the causticity of a reply or remark.
  2. n. The quality of being caustic; corrosiveness; as, the causticity of potash.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.