inflammatory

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: in=flam=ma=to=ry

CIDE DICTIONARY

inflammatory, a. [Cf. F. inflammatoire.].

•  Tending to inflame, kindle, or irritate.  [1913 Webster]
•  Tending to excite anger, animosity, tumult, or sedition; seditious; as, inflammatory libels, writings, speeches, or publications.  Burke.  [1913 Webster]
•  Accompanied with, or tending to cause, preternatural heat and excitement of arterial action; as, an inflammatory disease.  [1913 Webster]

Inflammatory crust. (Med.) Same as Buffy coat, under Buffy. -- Inflammatory fever, a variety of fever due to inflammation.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

inflammatory, adj.
1 (esp. of speeches, leaflets, etc.) tending to cause anger etc.
2 of or tending to inflammation of the body.

THESAURUS

inflammatory

agitating, agitational, agitative, breathtaking, charged, cliff-hanging, disquieting, distracting, disturbing, electric, enkindling, exciting, exhilarating, explosive, fervent, fervid, fiery, fomenting, frantic, frenzied, galvanic, heady, heart-expanding, heart-stirring, heart-swelling, heart-thrilling, impressive, incendiary, incentive, inciting, incitive, inflaming, inflammative, instigating, instigative, insurgent, intoxicating, jarring, jolting, kindling, lighting, maddening, mind-blowing, moving, mutinous, overcoming, overmastering, overpowering, overwhelming, passionate, perturbing, piquant, provocative, provoking, rabble-rousing, rabid, ravishing, rebellious, revolutionary, riotous, rousing, seditionary, seditious, soul-stirring, spirit-stirring, stimulating, stimulative, stirring, striking, suspenseful, suspensive, tantalizing, telling, thrilling, thrilly, traitorous, treacherous, troubling, unsettling, upsetting