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caustic adjective

  /ˈkɒstɪk/ , /ˈkɔːstɪk/
  • Capable of burning, corroding or destroying organic tissue.
  • (of language, etc.) Sharp, bitter, cutting, biting, and sarcastic in a scathing way.
 caustique

caustic noun

  /ˈkɒstɪk/ , /ˈkɔːstɪk/
  • Any substance or means which, applied to animal or other organic tissue, burns, corrodes, or destroys it by chemical action; an escharotic.
 caustique

causticity noun

  /kɔːˈstɪsɪti/
  • The quality of being physically caustic; burning, corrosive.
 causticité

caustically

caustiquement
caustic soda
soude caustique
caustic potash
potasse caustique
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