
adjective
- having the quality of corroding or eating away; erosive.
- harmful or destructive; deleterious: the corrosive effect of poverty on their marriage.
- sharply sarcastic; caustic: corrosive comments on the speaker’s integrity.
noun
- something corrosive, as an acid or drug.
adjective
- (esp of acids or alkalis) capable of destroying solid materials
- tending to eat away or consume
- cutting; sarcastica corrosive remark
noun
- a corrosive substance, such as a strong acid or alkali
adj.late 14c., from Old French corrosif (13c.), from corroder (see corrode). adj.
- Causing or tending to cause the gradual destruction of a substance by chemical action.
n.
- A substance having the capability or tendency to cause slow destruction.