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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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
inflammable
adj : possible to burn [syn: burnable, flammable, ignitable,
ignitible]
WordNet (r) 2.0
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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
burnable, flammable, ignitable, ignitible
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