1. caustic - Noun
2. caustic - Adjective
3. caustic - Adjective Satellite
Alt. of Caustical
Any substance or means which, applied to animal or other organic tissue, burns, corrodes, or destroys it by chemical action; an escharotic.
A caustic curve or caustic surface.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThe satirist who writes nothing but satire should write but little - or it will seem that his satire springs rather from his own caustic nature than from the sins of the world in which he lives. Anthony Trollope
Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things. George Eliot
That cold white candent voice which was more caustic than silver nitrate and more thrilling than a scream. Frederick Rolfe
Unnamed director: [The script is] too caustic. Goldwyn: To hell with the cost. If it's a good picture, we'll make it. Samuel Goldwyn
I'm very antischedule. Except for board meetings, I don't really schedule things or keep a calendar. I think appointments are caustic to creativity. David Karp
My childhood memories seem to be wreathed in the twin and far from harmonious olfactory sensations of patchouli oil and caustic soda. Hamish Bowles