Boost your vocab and unleash your potential!

Recently viewed words:
Definitions of abrasive
  1. adjective
    causing abrasion

    Similar: 

  2. noun
    a substance that abrades or wears down
    type of:
  3. adjective
    sharply disagreeable; rigorous
    "an abrasive character"

    Similar: 

Definition that contains abrasive
  • built (used of soaps or cleaning agents) having a substance (an abrasive or filler) added to increase effectiveness
  • emery a hard grey-black mineral consisting of corundum and either hematite or magnetite; used as an abrasive (especially as a coating on paper)
  • reinforced (used of soaps or cleaning agents) having a substance (an abrasive or filler) added to increase effectiveness
  • corundum very hard mineral used as an abrasive
  • garnet any of a group of hard glassy minerals (silicates of various metals) used as gemstones and as an abrasive
  • pumice a light glass formed on the surface of some lavas; used as an abrasive
  • bauxite a clay-like mineral; the chief ore of aluminum; composed of aluminum oxides and aluminum hydroxides; used as an abrasive and catalyst
  • zirconia a white crystalline oxide; used in refractories and in insulation and abrasives and enamels and glazes
  • carborundum an abrasive composed of silicon carbide crystals
  • grinding wheel a wheel composed of abrasive material; used for grinding
My lists:
Recently viewed words: