Caustic

Russian Meaning

каустика

каустик

едкое вещество

каустическая сода

каустическое средство

едкий

каустический

коррозионный

разъедающий

язвительный

колкий

English Meaning

  1. Capable of burning, corroding, dissolving, or eating away by chemical action.
  2. Corrosive and bitingly trenchant; cutting. See Synonyms at sarcastic.
  3. Causing a burning or stinging sensation, as from intense emotion: "Most of all, there is caustic shame for my own stupidity” ( Scott Turow).
  4. A caustic material or substance.
  5. A hydroxide of a light metal.
  6. The enveloping surface formed by light rays reflecting or refracting from a curved surface, especially one with spherical aberration.