1.
[syn: combustible, combustible material]
ADJECTIVE (1)
1. capable of igniting and burning;
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Combustible \Com*bus"ti*ble\, a. [Cf. F. combustible.]
1. Capable of taking fire and burning; apt to catch fire;
inflammable.
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Sin is to the soul like fire to combustible matter.
--South.
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2. Easily kindled or excited; quick; fiery; irascible.
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Arnold was a combustible character. --W. Irving.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Combustible \Com*bus"ti*ble\, n.
A substance that may be set on fire, or which is liable to
take fire and burn.
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All such combustibles as are cheap enough for common
use go under the name of fuel. --Ure.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
combustible
adj 1: capable of igniting and burning [ant: incombustible,
noncombustible]
n 1: a substance that can be burned to provide heat or power
[syn: combustible, combustible material]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
55 Moby Thesaurus words for "combustible":
accendible, alcohol, benzine, briquette, burnable, butane, carbon,
charcoal, coal, coke, dope, ethane, ethanol, explosive, fiery,
fireball, firing, flammable, flammable material, fuel,
fuel additive, fuel dope, gas, gas carbon, gasoline, hasty,
heptane, hexane, hot, hot-tempered, hotheaded, inflammable,
inflammable material, isooctane, jet fuel, kerosene, methane,
methanol, natural gas, octane, oil, paraffin, passionate, peat,
pentane, peppery, propane, propellant, quick, quick-tempered,
rocket fuel, short-tempered, spunky, turf, volcanic