inflammable

• POS: Adjective, Noun
• HYPHEN: in=flam=ma=ble

CIDE DICTIONARY

inflammable, a. [CF. F. inflammable.].

•  Capable of being easily set fire; easily enkindled; combustible; as, inflammable oils or spirits.  [1913 Webster]
•  Excitable; irritable; irascible; easily provoked; as, an inflammable temper.  [1913 Webster]

Inflammable air, the old chemical name for hydrogen.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

inflammable, adj. & n.
--adj.
1 easily set on fire; flammable.
2 easily excited.
--n. (usu. in pl.) an inflammable substance.

Derivative

inflammability n. inflammableness n. inflammably adv.

Etymology

INFLAME after F inflammable

THESAURUS

inflammable

accendible, agitable, alcohol, benzine, briquette, burnable, butane, carbon, charcoal, coal, coke, combustible, dope, edgy, emotional, emotionally unstable, eruptive, ethane, ethanol, excitable, explosive, fiery, fireball, firing, flammable, flammable material, fuel, fuel additive, fuel dope, gas, gas carbon, gasoline, heptane, hexane, high-mettled, high-spirited, high-strung, highly emotional, inflammable material, irascible, irritable, isooctane, jet fuel, kerosene, methane, methanol, mettlesome, natural gas, nervous, octane, oil, paraffin, peat, pentane, perturbable, prickly, propane, propellant, rocket fuel, sensitive, skittish, startlish, touchy, turf, volcanic

ROGET THESAURUS

inflammable

Calefaction

N calefaction, increase of temperature, heating, calefaction, tepefaction, torrefaction, melting, fusion, liquefaction, burning, ambustion, combustion, incension, accension, concremation, cremation, scorification, cautery, cauterization, ustulation, calcination, cracking, refining, incineration, cineration, carbonization, cupellation, ignition, inflammation, adustion, flagration, deflagration, conflagration, empyrosis, incendiarism, arson, auto dafe, boiling, coction, ebullition, estuation, elixation, decoction, ebullioscope, geyser, distillation (vaporization), furnace, blanket, flannel, fur, wadding, clothing, still, refinery, fractionating column, fractionating tower, cracking tower, match, incendiary, petroleuse, cauterizer, caustic, lunar caustic, alkali, apozem, moxa, acid, aqua fortis, aqua regia, catheretic, nitric acid, nitrochloro-hydric acid, nitromuriatic acid, radioactivity, gamma rays, alpha particles, beta rays, X-rays, radiation, cosmic radiation, background radiation, radioactive isotopes, tritium, uranium, plutonium, radon, radium, sunstroke, coup de soleil, insolation, pottery, ceramics, crockery, porcelain, china, earthenware, stoneware, pot, mug, terra cotta, brick, clinker, cinder, ash, scoriae, embers, soot, slag, coke, carbon, charcoal, wood alcohol, turpentine, tea tree oil, gasoline, kerosene, naptha, fuel oil (fuel), wax, paraffin, residue, tar, inflammability, combustibility, diathermancy, transcalency, conduction, convection, radiation, radiant heat, heat conductivity, conductivity, thermal expansion, coefficient of expansion, heated, molten, sodden, r_echauff_e, heating, adust, inflammable, combustible, diathermal, diathermanous, burnt, volcanic, radioactive.

Fuel

N fuel, firing, combustible, coal, wallsend, anthracite, culm, coke, carbon, charcoal, bituminous coal, tar shale, turf, peat, firewood, bobbing, faggot, log, cinder, ingle, tinder, touchwood, sulphur, brimstone, incense, port-fire, fire-barrel, fireball, brand, amadou, bavin, blind coal, glance coal, German tinder, pyrotechnic sponge, punk, smudge, solid fueled rocket, wax, paraffin wax, paraffin oil, lamp oil, whale oil, oil, petroleum, gasoline, high octane gasoline, nitromethane, petrol, gas, juice, gasohol, alcohol, ethanol, methanol, fuel oil, kerosene, jet fuel, heating oil, number 2 oil, number 4 oil, naphtha, rocket fuel, high specific impulse fuel, liquid hydrogen, liquid oxygen, lox, natural gas, synthetic gas, synthesis gas, propane, butane, hydrogen, brand, torch, fuse, wick, spill, match, light, lucifer, congreve, vesuvian, vesta, fusee, locofoco, linstock, candle, oil, carbonaceous, combustible, inflammable, high octane, high specific impulse, heat of combustion.