Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Easily ignited and capable of burning rapidly; flammable. See Usage Note at flammable.
- adj. Quickly or easily aroused to strong emotion; excitable.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Capable of being set on fire; susceptible of combustion; easily fired.
- Easily excited or inflamed; highly excitable.
Wiktionary
- adj. Capable of burning; easily set on fire.
- adj. Easily excited; set off by the slightest excuse; easily enraged or inflamed.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Capable of being easily set fire; easily enkindled; combustible.
- adj. Excitable; irritable; irascible; easily provoked.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. easily ignited
Etymologies
- Middle English, liable to inflammation, from Medieval Latin īnflammābilis, from Latin īnflammāre, to inflame; see inflame.
Examples
“I'm also nonplussed by "inflammable" and "flammable" which mean the same thing but look like they mean the opposite.”
“I believe he points out elsewhere in the book that airlines are the very same people who believe us too witless to understand "inflammable".”
“He believed that neither side wanted war but circumstances continued to be “inflammable due to great emotional stress and the immediate proximity of hostile armed forces.””
“Lebanon defines terrorism as all acts intended to cause a state of terror -- including the use of explosive devices, inflammable materials, toxic products and infectious agents.”
“It is inflammable at medium concentrations but not at very highones.”
“It can be a dangerous business with all those inflammable gum gases around: stills have been known to explode.”
“Hot wind swayed the tops of the ironbarks and bark peeled off the eucalypts in the heat, hanging in seductive, inflammable ribbons.”
“In a society of increasingly fragmented families, whose members live parallel lives within the home, in which children often feel more catered to than truly known, and where off-the-rack child-rearing techniques too often miss the point, the culture of celebrity is a potentially inflammable ingredient.”
“A woman and her son were looking at some of the books on our sparkly, unconvincingly inflammable table, and the son said, Oh!”
“I wonder if the pillow is infamous because it is inflammable?”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘inflammable’.
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The Bucolic Abattoir
Words which, when spoken, suggest something other than their real meaning.
bucolic, fungible, brouhaha, narthex, restive, inflammable, invaluable, raze, pulchritude, noisome, fatuous, terrific and 20 more...
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Deceptively named words
Words that mean the opposite of what they sound like they mean
pulchritude, enervate, restive, puissant, redoubtable, spendthrift, quean, matriculate, tripping, gainsay, nonplus, prosaic and 12 more...
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lavendargrrl's Words
surfeit, radiant, sussuration, sustenance, authenticity, aching, solitude, solicitous, limerance, compersion, philanthropy, mystery and 108 more...
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Papageno's Words, Pt. I
hobbledehoy, absquatulate, chthonic, prolix, ululate, internecine, verisimilitude, animadversion, concupiscence, vertiginous, cucullate, lucubrate and 1554 more...
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Autantonyms
Words with mutually exclusive double meanings. Also, here are some:
QUASI-AUTANTONYMS: slow up/slow down; bar/debar; bone/debone; burn up/burn down; fat chance/slim chance; fill in/fil...clip, cleave, sanction, handicap, fast, jibe, secrete, aloha, bimonthly, bolt, cheerio, commencement and 135 more...
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Antagonyms
Words that are their own antonyms
cleave, bolt, apology, custom, aught, inflammable, sanction, prize
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lanklenmot's Words
ineluctable, prelapsarian, bien pensant, prospero, preternatural, gratifying, iconoclast, cineast, persnickety, tumescent, galvanize, pap and 831 more...
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drdonaldbrief's Words
panties, slacks, brief, conundrum, gaggle, quagmire, rubble, conflagration, etymology, ogre, discombobulate, blumpkin and 80 more...
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mcbaine's Words
surficant, vicissitude, erinaceous, battousai, himura, wang, pedagogical, pedantic, immure, tertiary, tetrahedron, widget and 104 more...
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I do not think it means what you think it means
incipient, innocuous, bellicose, inflammable, belie, borborygmus, crepuscule, slatch, comprise, salubrious, pulchritude, gormless and 4 more...
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Opposites without (commonly used) opposites
inert, inflammable, discombobulate, uncouth, disgruntled, defenestrate, gormless, indefatigable, encumber, miscegination, inept, prophylactic and 19 more...
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anonomatopoeias
words that don't sound like their meanings
curmudgeonly, bucolic, inflammable, blastocyte, homely, husbanding, postulate, laconic, pulchritude, brobdingnagian, redoubt
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synantonyms
Words that should be antonyms, but aren't.
Some say pseudantonym, but I don't like to.ravel, unravel, flammable, inflammable, thaw, unthaw, worm, deworm, color, discolor, valuable, invaluable and 12 more...
Now isn't that funny? Jun 17, 2007