explosive

About 4.92 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Able to, or likely to, explode.

   an explosive device

2. adjective Having the character of an explosion.

   an explosive fire

3. adjective Of a specific cellular automaton rule, tending to exhibit infinite and unpredictable growth when starting from finite random patterns.
4. adjective Rapidly accelerating.

   explosive movements

5. adjective Shocking; startling.

   an explosive accusation

6. adjective Easily driven to anger, usually with reference to a person.

   He has an explosive personality.

7. adjective Synonym of plosive.

   the explosive consonants

8. noun Any explosive substance.

Similar words

exploding detonative sudden volatile bursting unstable detonating explosion blasting eruptive

Often followed by

growth and mixture force devices charge device power situation

Word family

explosively explosiveness explosivenesses explosives