Acidulous vs Caustic - What's the difference?
acidulous | caustic |
Slightly sour; sub-acid; sourish.
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Capable of burning, corroding or destroying organic tissue.
Sharp, bitter, cutting, biting, and sarcastic in a scathing way.
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Any substance or means which, applied to animal or other organic tissue, burns, corrodes, or destroys it by chemical action; an escharotic.
(optics, computer graphics) The envelope of reflected or refracted rays of light for a given surface or object.
(mathematics) The envelope of reflected or refracted rays for a given curve.
(informal, chemistry) caustic soda
As adjectives the difference between acidulous and caustic
is that acidulous is slightly sour; sub-acid; sourish while caustic is caustic.acidulous
English
Adjective
(head)- an acidulous tincture