Synonyms of the word corrosive


CORROSIVECAUSTIC - COMPOUND - DESTRUCTIVE - EROSIVE - MORDANT - VITRIOLIC

corrosive

  • adj. Eating away; having the power of gradually wearing, hanging, or destroying the texture or substance of…
  • adj. Having the quality of fretting or vexing.
  • adj. destroying or undermining something gradually.
  • n. That which has the quality of eating or wearing away gradually.
  • n. Any solid, liquid or gas capable of irreparably harming living tissues or damaging material on contact.

caustic

  • adj. Capable of burning, corroding or destroying organic tissue.
  • adj. (of language, etc.) Sharp, bitter, cutting, biting, and sarcastic in a scathing way.
  • n. Any substance or means which, applied to animal or other organic tissue, burns, corrodes, or destroys…
  • n. (optics, computer graphics) The envelope of reflected or refracted rays of light for a given surface or…
  • n. (mathematics) The envelope of reflected or refracted rays for a given curve.
  • n. (informal, chemistry) Caustic soda.

compound

  • n. an enclosure within which workers, prisoners, or soldiers are confined.
  • n. a group of buildings situated close together, e.g. for a school or block of offices.
  • adj. composed of elements; not simple.
  • adj. (music) An octave higher than originally (i.e. a compound major second is equivalent to a major ninth).
  • n. Anything made by combining several things.
  • n. (chemistry, dated) A substance made from any combination elements.
  • n. (chemistry) A substance formed by chemical union of two or more ingredients in definite proportions by…
  • n. (linguistics) A lexeme that consists of more than one stem; compound word; for example laptop, formed…
  • v. (transitive) To form (a resulting mixture) by combining different elements, ingredients, or parts.
  • v. (transitive) To assemble (ingredients) into a whole; to combine, mix, or unite.
  • v. (transitive) To modify or change by combination with some other thing or part; to mingle with something…
  • v. (transitive, law) To settle by agreeing on less than the claim, or on different terms than those stipulated.
  • v. (transitive) To settle amicably; to adjust by agreement; to compromise.
  • v. (intransitive) To come to terms of agreement; to agree; to settle by a compromise; usually followed by…
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To compose; to constitute.
  • v. (transitive) To worsen a situation.

destructive

  • adj. Causing destruction; damaging.
  • adj. Causing breakdown or disassembly.
  • adj. (computing) Lossy; causing irreversible change.

erosive

  • adj. Of or pertaining to erosion.
  • adj. Causing or tending to cause erosion.

mordant

  • adj. Having or showing a sharp or critical quality; biting; caustic; sarcastic; keen; severe.
  • n. Any substance used to facilitate the fixing of a dye to a fibre; usually a metallic compound which reacts…
  • n. Any corrosive substance used in etching.
  • v. (transitive) To subject to the action of, or imbue with, a mordant.

vitriolic

  • adj. (chemistry, dated) Of or pertaining to vitriol; derived from or resembling vitriol; vitriolous.
  • adj. (figuratively) Bitterly scathing, caustic.

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