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adjective
1.
capable of burning, corroding, or destroying living tissue.
2.
severely critical or sarcastic: a caustic remark.
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Causticity
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English < Latin causticus < Greek kaustikós burning, caustic, equivalent to kaust(ós) burnt (verbal adjective of kaíein to burn) + -ikos -ic
1350–1400; Middle English < Latin causticus < Greek kaustikós burning, caustic, equivalent to kaust(ós) burnt (verbal adjective of kaíein to burn) + -ikos -ic
Related forms
caus·ti·cal·ly, caus·tic·ly, adverb
non·caus·tic, adjective
non·caus·ti·cal·ly, adverb
o·ver·caus·tic, adjective
EXPANDo·ver·caus·ti·cal·ly, adverb
o·ver·caus·tic·i·ty, noun
un·caus·tic, adjective
un·caus·ti·cal·ly, adverb
COLLAPSESynonyms
2. biting, mordant, bitter, scathing, acid.
2. biting, mordant, bitter, scathing, acid.
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