4 definitions found From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Combustible \Com*bus"ti*ble\, a. [Cf. F. combustible.] 1. Capable of taking fire and burning; apt to catch fire; inflammable. [1913 Webster] Sin is to the soul like fire to combustible matter. --South. [1913 Webster] 2. Easily kindled or excited; quick; fiery; irascible. [1913 Webster] Arnold was a combustible character. --W. Irving. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Combustible \Com*bus"ti*ble\, n. A substance that may be set on fire, or which is liable to take fire and burn. [1913 Webster] All such combustibles as are cheap enough for common use go under the name of fuel. --Ure. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: combustible adj : capable of igniting and burning [ant: {noncombustible}] n : a substance that can be burned to provide heat or power [syn: {combustible material}] From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]: 55 Moby Thesaurus words for "combustible": accendible, alcohol, benzine, briquette, burnable, butane, carbon, charcoal, coal, coke, dope, ethane, ethanol, explosive, fiery, fireball, firing, flammable, flammable material, fuel, fuel additive, fuel dope, gas, gas carbon, gasoline, hasty, heptane, hexane, hot, hot-tempered, hotheaded, inflammable, inflammable material, isooctane, jet fuel, kerosene, methane, methanol, natural gas, octane, oil, paraffin, passionate, peat, pentane, peppery, propane, propellant, quick, quick-tempered, rocket fuel, short-tempered, spunky, turf, volcanic
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