caustic: signification et définitions

Capable of burning, corroding, dissolving, or eating away by chemical action.

Corrosive and bitingly trenchant; cutting. See Synonyms at sarcastic.

Causing a burning or stinging sensation, as from intense emotion: "Most of all, there is caustic shame for my own stupidity” ( Scott Turow).

A caustic material or substance.

A hydroxide of a light metal.

The enveloping surface formed by light rays reflecting or refracting from a curved surface, especially one with spherical aberration.