Abrasive vs Nonabrasive - What's the difference?
abrasive | nonabrasive |
Producing abrasion; rough enough to wear away the outer surface.
Being rough and coarse in manner or disposition; causing irritation.
A substance or material such as sandpaper, pumice, or emery, used for cleaning, smoothing, or polishing.
(geology) Rock fragments, sand grains, mineral particles, used by water, wind, and ice to abrade a land surface.
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Not abrasive.
:I used a nonabrasive cleanser to clean the porcelain fixtures because I didn't want to scratch them.
As adjectives the difference between abrasive and nonabrasive
is that abrasive is producing abrasion; rough enough to wear away the outer surface while nonabrasive is not abrasive.As a noun abrasive
is a substance or material such as sandpaper, pumice, or emery, used for cleaning, smoothing, or polishing.abrasive
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- An abrasive person can grate on one's sensibilities.
- Despite her proper upbringing, we found her manners to be terribly abrasive .