Synonyms of the word erosive


EROSIVECAUSTIC - CORROSIVE - DESTRUCTIVE - MORDANT - VITRIOLIC

erosive

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

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.

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.

destructive

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

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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