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inflammable

About 0.41 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. adjective Capable of burning.
  2. adjective Easily set on fire.
  3. adjective Easily excited; set off by the slightest excuse; easily enraged or inflamed.
  4. adjective Incapable of burning; not easily set on fire. From in- +‎ flammable, via backformation.
  5. noun Any inflammable substance.

Similar words

ignitable ignitible flammable combustible burnable incendiary volatile fiery accendible lightable

Often followed by

air material gas and materials gases substances liquid matter

Word family

inflammabilities inflammability inflammableness inflammablenesses inflammables inflammably

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