- flammable
- easily roused, provoked, or excited
Origin of inflammable
French from Medieval Latin inflammabilis from Classical Latin inflammare: see inflame anything flammable
Gasoline is inflammable.
- An example of inflammable is gasoline.
- An example of inflammable is the dog breed Chihuahua.
The definition of inflammable is something that catches fire easily, or a person or thing that gets excited easily.
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inflammable
adjective
- Easily ignited and capable of burning rapidly; flammable. See Usage Note at flammable.
- Quickly or easily aroused to strong emotion; excitable.
Origin of inflammable
Middle English liable to inflammation from Medieval Latin īnflammābilis from Latin īnflammāre to inflame ; see inflame .Related Forms:
- in·flam′ma·bil′i·ty
noun
- in·flam′ma·ble
noun
- in·flam′ma·bly
adverb
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Adjective
(comparative more inflammable, superlative most inflammable)
Usage notes
Origin
From Middle French inflammable, from Medieval Latin inflammabilis, from Latin inflammare (“to set on fire”), from in (“in, on”) + flamma (“flame”).
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Sentence Examples
- In ancient times meteors were supposed to be generated in the air by inflammable gases.
- Its vapour is spontaneously inflammable when exposed to air.
- This is at first colourless carbon dioxide, but later on inflammable gases come out of the mass, which at this stage has turned into a thicker, pasty condition, showing that the end of the reaction is near.
- East of the town, is the now disused temple of the Parsee fire-worshippers, who were attracted thither by the natural fountains of inflammable gas.
- Prior to 1691, however, Dr John Clayton, dean of Kildare, filled bladders with inflammable gas obtained by the distillation of coal, and showed that on pricking the bladders and applying a light to the escaping gas it burnt with a luminous flame, and in 1726 Stephen Hales published the fact that by the distillation of 158 grains of Newcastle coal, 180 cub.
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Words near inflammable in the dictionary
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