Inflammatory \In*flam"ma*to*ry\, a. [Cf. F. inflammatoire.]
1. Tending to inflame, kindle, or irritate.
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2. Tending to excite anger, animosity, tumult, or sedition;
seditious; as, inflammatory libels, writings, speeches, or
publications. --Burke.
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3. (Med.) Accompanied with, or tending to cause,
preternatural heat and excitement of arterial action; as,
an inflammatory disease.
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Inflammatory crust. (Med.) Same as Buffy coat, under
Buffy.
Inflammatory fever, a variety of fever due to inflammation.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
inflammatory
adj 1: characterized or caused by inflammation; "an inflammatory
process"; "an inflammatory response"
2: arousing to action or rebellion [syn: incendiary, incitive,
instigative, rabble-rousing, seditious]
WordNet (r) 2.0
80 Moby Thesaurus words for "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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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