Inflammable

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Inflammable \In*flam"ma*ble\, a. [CF. F. inflammable.]
     1. Capable of being easily set fire; easily enkindled;
        combustible; as, inflammable oils or spirits.
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     2. Excitable; irritable; irascible; easily provoked; as, an


        inflammable temper.
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     {Inflammable air}, the old chemical name for hydrogen.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  inflammable
       adj : possible to burn [syn: {burnable}, {flammable}, {ignitable},
              {ignitible}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  65 Moby Thesaurus words for "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