combustible

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Adjective

combustible

1. Capable of burning

   Dumping fertilizer on top of whatever mysterious goop was in the storage tank created a combustible mix which caught on fire.

   • Sin is to the soul like fire to combustible matter.

2. (figurative) Easily kindled or excited; quick; fiery; irascible.

   • Arnold was a combustible character.

Antonyms

• incombustible

Related terms

• combust
• combustibility
• combustion

Translations

• German: brennbar, verbrennbar
• Portuguese: combustível
• Russian: воспламеня́емый
• Spanish: combustible

Noun

combustible (plural combustibles)

1. A material that is capable of burning.

Translations

• French: combustible
• German: Brennstoff
• Portuguese: combustível
• Russian: то́пливо
• Spanish: combustible

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