Search Result for "incendiary":
Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (2)
1. a criminal who illegally sets fire to property;
[syn: arsonist, incendiary, firebug]
2. a bomb that is designed to start fires; is most effective against flammable targets (such as fuel);
[syn: incendiary bomb, incendiary, firebomb]
ADJECTIVE (3)
1. involving deliberate burning of property;
- Example: "an incendiary fire"
2. arousing to action or rebellion;
[syn: incendiary, incitive, inflammatory, instigative, rabble-rousing, seditious]
3. capable of catching fire spontaneously or causing fires or burning readily;
- Example: "an incendiary agent"
- Example: "incendiary bombs"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Incendiary \In*cen"di*a*ry\, a. [L. incendiarius, fr. incendium a fire, conflagration: cf. F. incendiaire. See Incense to inflame.] [1913 Webster] 1. Of or pertaining to incendiarism, or the malicious burning of valuable property; as, incendiary material; as incendiary crime. [1913 Webster] 2. Tending to excite or inflame factions, sedition, or quarrel; inflammatory; seditious. --Paley. [1913 Webster] Incendiary device, a device designed to set a structure on fire; a firebomb. Incendiary shell, a bombshell. See Carcass, 4. [1913 Webster]The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Incendiary \In*cen"di*a*ry\ (?; 277), n.; pl. Incendiaries. [L. incendiarius: cf. F. incendiaire. See Incense to inflame.] [1913 Webster] 1. Any person who maliciously sets fire to a building or other valuable or other valuable property. [1913 Webster] 2. A person who excites or inflames factions, and promotes quarrels or sedition; an agitator; an exciter. [1913 Webster] Several cities . . . drove them out as incendiaries. --Bentley. [1913 Webster]Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
94 Moby Thesaurus words for "incendiary": Mafioso, Young Turk, agent provocateur, agitational, agitative, agitator, agitprop, arsonist, beast, beldam, berserk, berserker, bomber, brute, catalyst, demagogue, demon, devil, dragon, enkindling, exciter, fiend, fire worshiper, fire-eater, firebrand, firebug, fomenter, fomenting, fury, goon, gorilla, gunsel, hardnose, hell-raiser, hellcat, hellhound, hellion, holy terror, hood, hoodlum, hothead, hotspur, incentive, inciter, inciting, incitive, inflamer, inflaming, inflammative, inflammatory, instigating, instigative, instigator, killer, kindling, lighting, mad dog, madcap, mischief-maker, monster, mugger, provocateur, provoker, pyrolater, pyromaniac, pyrophile, rabble-rouser, rabble-rousing, rapist, revolutionary, ringleader, rouser, savage, seditionary, seditionist, she-wolf, spitfire, termagant, terror, terrorist, tiger, tigress, torch, tough, tough guy, troublemaker, ugly customer, urger, violent, virago, vixen, wild beast, witch, wolf
