different between caustic vs angry
caustic
English
Etymology
From the Latin causticus (“burning”), from the Ancient Greek ????????? (kaustikós, “burning”).
Pronunciation
- enPR: kôs't?k, k?s't?k, IPA(key): /?k??st?k/, /?k?st?k/
- Rhymes: -??st?k
Adjective
caustic (comparative more caustic, superlative most caustic)
- Capable of burning, corroding or destroying organic tissue.
- (of language, etc.) Sharp, bitter, cutting, biting, and sarcastic in a scathing way.
- 1853, Charlotte Brontë, Villette
- Madame Beck esteemed me learned and blue; Miss Fanshawe, caustic, ironic, and cynical
- c. 1930, W.H.Auden, "The Quest"
- 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
- 1853, Charlotte Brontë, Villette
Synonyms
- (capable of destroying tissue): acidic, biting, burning, corrosive, searing
- (severe, sharp): bitchy, biting, catty, mordacious, nasty, sarcastic, scathing, sharp, spiteful, vitriolic
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
Noun
caustic (plural caustics)
- 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.
Derived terms
- lunar caustic
Translations
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angry
English
Etymology
From Middle English angry; see anger.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?æ?.??i/
- Rhymes: -æ??ri
Adjective
angry (comparative angrier, superlative angriest)
- Displaying or feeling anger.
- (said about a wound or a rash) Inflamed and painful.
- The broken glass left two angry cuts across my arm.
- (figuratively, said about the elements, like the sky or the sea) Dark and stormy, menacing.
- Angry clouds raced across the sky.
Usage notes
- The comparative more angry and the superlative most angry are also occasionally found.
- The sense “feeling anger” is construed with with or at when the object is a person: I’m angry with/at my boss. It is construed with at or about when the object is a situation: I’m angry at/about what he said. When both a person and a situation are given, the latter is construed with for instead: I’m angry with/at my boss for what he said.
Synonyms
- (displaying anger): mad, enraged, wrathful, furious, apoplectic; irritated, annoyed, vexed, pissed off, cheesed off, worked up, psyched up
- See also Thesaurus:angry
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- Anger on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- rangy
Middle English
Alternative forms
- angri, angrye
Etymology
From anger +? -y, from Old Norse angr (“affliction, sorrow”)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?an?ri?/
Adjective
angry (superlative angriest)
- Angry; displaying angriness (usually of actions)
- Easily annoyed or angered; irous or spiteful.
- Severe, vexatious, ferocious, painful.
Derived terms
- angrily
- angrynes
Descendants
- English: angry
- Scots: angry
References
- “angr?, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-04-02.
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