Caustic vs Splenetic - What's the difference?
caustic | splenetic | Related terms |
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
bad-tempered, irritable, peevish, spiteful, habitually angry
* 1678, Samuel Butler, Hudibras
* 1876, George Eliot, Daniel Deronda
(biology) relating to the spleen
* 1879, Sir Samuel White Baker, Cyprus, as I Saw it in 1879
Caustic is a related term of splenetic.
As adjectives the difference between caustic and splenetic
is that caustic is caustic while splenetic is bad-tempered, irritable, peevish, spiteful, habitually angry.As a noun splenetic is
(archaic) a person affected with spleen.caustic
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Adjective
(en adjective)Synonyms
* (capable of destroying tissue ): acidic, biting, burning, corrosive, searing * (severe, sharp ): bitchy, biting, catty, mordacious, nasty, sarcastic, scathing, sharp, spitefulQuotations
* 1843': "How now!" said Scrooge, '''caustic and cold as ever. — Charles Dickens, ''A Christmas Carol * 1843': The bargain was not concluded as easily as might have been expected though, for Scadder was '''caustic and ill-humoured, and cast much unnecessary opposition in the way — Charles Dickens, ''Martin Chuzzlewit * 1853': Madame Beck esteemed me learned and blue; Miss Fanshawe, '''caustic , ironic, and cynical — Charlotte Bronte, ''Villette * 1857':The Secretary and the Assistant-Secretaries would say little '''caustic things about him to the senior clerks, and seemed somewhat to begrudge him his new honours. — Anthony Trollope, ''The Three Clerks * 1886': this set of worthies, who were only too prone to shut up their emotions with '''caustic words. — Thomas Hardy, ''The Mayor of Casterbridge * 1930s???': though he came too late / To join the martyrs, there was still a place / Among the tempters for a ' caustic tongue / / To test the resolution of the young / With tales of the small failings of the great — W.H.Auden, 'The Quest'Derived terms
* caustic curve * caustic potash * caustic soda * caustic surfaceNoun
(en noun)Derived terms
* lunar causticsplenetic
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Alternative forms
* splenetick (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)- A sect, whose chief devotion lies / In odd perverse antipathies; / ... / More peevish, cross, and splenetick , / Than dog distract, or monkey sick.
- In fact, Gwendolen, not intending it, but intending the contrary, had offended her hostess, who, though not a splenetic or vindictive woman, had her susceptibilities.
- I have already described the general protuberance of the abdomen among the children throughout the Messaria and the Carpas districts, all of whom are more or less affected by splenetic diseases.
