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Definition
of a chemical substance: corrosive; capable of destroying or eating away such as a strong acidor:
of a person: sarcastic, critical, or harsh
- Don't get it on your skin. It's caustic.
caustic = harsh or capable of hurting skin (like a strong acid)
- Be careful. The chemical is caustic.
- She has a caustic sense of humor.
- Caustic soda liberates heat when mixed with water.
- It's probably better that we don't talk. It usually gets caustic when we do.
- caustic jokes about political assassination, talk-show hosts and medical ethics
- some kind of caustic medicine splashed all over him;Franz Kafka -- Metamorphosis
- Her new clothes were the subject of caustic comment.Willa Cather -- My Antonia
- "Do you?" asks Prim caustically.Suzanne Collins -- Mockingjay
- You can do all manner of underhanded nice things when you have a caustic reputation.Markus Zusak -- The Book Thief
- 'You don't happen to know any good of him, do you?' said Mr. Grimwig, caustically;Charles Dickens -- Oliver Twist
- "Oh," Beatrice said caustically, "the one you went chasing when you shoulda been minding your own business."Carl Hiassen -- Hoot
- "Yes, it's a disgrace," agrees the caustic, some-what original, and entirely imposing lady who presides over this "But the stamps work, don't they?"Truman Capote -- In Cold Blood
- said Scrooge, caustic and cold as ever.Charles Dickens -- A Christmas Carol
- Mr. Justice Wargrave, mellowed by the excellent port, was being amusing in a caustic fashion, Dr. Armstrong and Tony Marston were listening to him.Agatha Christie -- And Then There Were None
- On Rack 10 rows of next generation's chemical workers were being trained in the toleration of lead, caustic soda, tar, chlorine.Aldous Huxley -- Brave New World
- said Scrooge, caustic and cold as ever.Dickens, Charles -- A Christmas Carol
- Her new clothes were the subject of caustic comment.Cather, Willa -- My Antonia
- I am very amiable and have a caustic witTolstoy, Leo -- War and Peace
- Dawes stared up at the picture with a caustic expression on his face.D.H. Lawrence -- Sons and Lovers
caustic = harsh or capable of hurting skin (like a strong acid)
caustic = harsh feeling (burning or corrosive)
caustic = sarcastic or critical
caustically = sarcastically
caustic = sarcastic, critical, or harsh
caustically = sarcastically or critically
caustically = sarcastically or critically
caustic = sarcastic, critical, or harsh
caustic = sarcastic, critical, or harsh
caustic = sarcastic
caustic = of a chemical substance: corrosive; capable of destroying or eating away such as a strong acid