Deleterious vs Caustic - What's the difference?
deleterious | caustic |
harmful often in a subtle or unexpected way (as for example deleterious'' effects, ''deleterious to health).
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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 deleterious and caustic
is that deleterious is harmful often in a subtle or unexpected way (as for example deleterious effects, deleterious to health) while caustic is capable of burning, corroding or destroying organic tissue.As a noun caustic is
any substance or means which, applied to animal or other organic tissue, burns, corrodes, or destroys it by chemical action; an escharotic.deleterious
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Or might it suffice him, that every wholesome growth should be converted into something deleterious and malignant at his touch?