Synonyms of the word

vitriolic

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

acerb

• adj. Sour, bitter, and harsh to the taste, as unripe fruit.
• adj. Sharp and harsh in expressing oneself.

acerbic

• adj. Tasting sour or bitter.
• adj. Sharp, harsh, biting.

acid

• adj. Sour, sharp, or biting to the taste; tart; having the taste of vinegar.
• adj. (figuratively) Sour-tempered.
• adj. Of or pertaining to an acid; acidic.
• adj. (music) Denoting a musical genre that is a distortion (as if hallucinogenic) of an existing genre, as…
• n. A sour substance.
• n. (chemistry) Any of several classes of compound having the following properties:-.
• n. (slang) lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD).

acrid

• adj. Sharp and harsh, or bitter and not to the taste; pungent.
• adj. Causing heat and irritation; corrosive.
• adj. Caustic; bitter; bitterly irritating.

bitter

• adj. Having an acrid taste (usually from a basic substance).
• adj. Harsh, piercing or stinging.
• adj. Hateful or hostile.
• adj. Cynical and resentful.
• n. (usually in the plural bitters) A liquid or powder, made from bitter herbs, used in mixed drinks or as…
• n. A type of beer heavily flavored with hops.
• n. (nautical) A turn of a cable about the bitts.
• v. To make bitter.
• n. (computing, informal, in combination) A hardware system whose architecture is based around units of the…

blistering

• v. present participle of blister.
• adj. Causing blisters.
• adj. Very hot.
• adj. Harsh or corrosive.
• adj. Very aggressive.
• adj. Very fast.
• n. (medicine, veterinary) The practice of forming blisters on the skin, to promote blood flow and aid healing.

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.

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.

sulfurous

• adj. Containing sulfur.
• adj. (chemistry) Of, or relating to sulfur, especially in its lower oxidation state.

sulphurous

• adj. (chiefly British spelling) Alternative spelling of sulfurous.

unpleasant

• adj. Not pleasant.

venomous

• adj. Full of venom.
• adj. Toxic; poisonous.
• adj. Noxious; evil.
• adj. Malignant; spiteful; hateful.
• adj. Producing venom (poison usually injected into an enemy or prey by biting or stinging) in glands or accumulating…
• adj. powerful.

virulent

• adj. (chiefly medicine, of a disease or disease-causing agent) Highly infectious, malignant, or deadly.
• adj. Hostile to the point of being venomous; intensely acrimonious.