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INFLAMMABLE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does inflammable mean?
• INFLAMMABLE (adjective)
The adjective INFLAMMABLE has 1 sense:
1. easily ignited
Familiarity information: INFLAMMABLE used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Easily ignited
Synonyms:
flammable; inflammable
Similar:
combustible (capable of igniting and burning)
Derivation:
inflammability (the quality of being easily ignited and burning rapidly)
Context examples
Yes, that's the best place for such inflammable nonsense.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
An inflammable gas, and one markedly lighter than the atmosphere.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Ether also refers loosely to diethyl-ether, a colorless, volatile, highly inflammable liquid used in industry and biomedical research, and historically important as an anesthetic agent.
(Ether, NCI Thesaurus)
As he glanced from Jo to several other young people, attracted by the brilliancy of the philosophic pyrotechnics, he knit his brows and longed to speak, fearing that some inflammable young soul would be led astray by the rockets, to find when the display was over that they had only an empty stick or a scorched hand.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
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