Spiteful vs Corrosive - What's the difference?
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Filled with, or showing, spite; having a desire to vex, annoy, or injure; malignant; malicious
Eating away; having the power of gradually wearing, hanging, or destroying the texture or substance of a body; as the corrosive action of an acid.
Having the quality of fretting or vexing.
* Shakespeare
destroying or undermining something gradually
That which has the quality of eating or wearing away gradually.
Any solid, liquid or gas capable of irreparably harming living tissues or damaging material on contact.
Spiteful is a related term of corrosive.
As adjectives the difference between spiteful and corrosive
is that spiteful is filled with, or showing, spite; having a desire to vex, annoy, or injure; malignant; malicious while corrosive is eating away; having the power of gradually wearing, hanging, or destroying the texture or substance of a body; as the corrosive action of an acid.As a noun corrosive is
that which has the quality of eating or wearing away gradually.spiteful
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(Webster 1913)Alternative forms
* spightful (obsolete) * spightfull (obsolete) * spitefull (archaic)Adjective
(en adjective)External links
* *corrosive
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(wikipedia corrosive)Adjective
(en adjective)- Care is no cure, but corrosive .