Explosive

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Relating to or having the nature of an explosion.
  • adj. Tending to explode.
  • n. A substance, especially a prepared chemical, that explodes or causes explosion.
  • n. Linguistics A plosive.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Explosive substance.
  • adj. With the capability to, or likely to, explode.
  • adj. Having the character of an explosion.
  • adj. Easily driven to anger, usually with reference to a person.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Driving or bursting out with violence and noise; causing explosion.
  • n. An explosive agent; a compound or mixture susceptible of a rapid chemical reaction, as gunpowder, TNT, dynamite, or nitro-glycerine.
  • n. A sound produced by an explosive impulse of the breath; (Phonetics) one of consonants p, b, t, d, k, g, which are sounded with a sort of explosive power of voice. [See Guide to Pronunciation, √ 155-7, 184.]
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Pertaining to or of the nature of explosion; tending or liable to explode, or to cause explosion: as, the explosive force of gunpowder; explosive mixture; explosive paroxysms of nerve-force.
  • In philology, involving in utterance the breach of a complete closure of the organs; not continuous; mute; forming a complete vocal stop: as, an explosive consonant. See II., 2.
  • n. Any substance by whose decomposition or combustion gas is generated with such rapidity that it can be used for blasting or in firearms.
  • n. In philology, a non-continuous or mute consonant, as k, t, p. Also explodent.
  • n. The principal classes of explosive substances are: gunpowder
  • n. nitroglycerin and its compounds, the most important being dynamite
  • n. gun-cotton and similar nitro-substitution compounds
  • n. picric acid and the picrates
  • n. fulminates
  • n. Sprengel safety-mixtures
  • n. nitrate mixtures other than gunpowder, and chlorate mixtures. There are many varieties of each class.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. liable to lead to sudden change or violence
  • adj. sudden and loud
  • n. a chemical substance that undergoes a rapid chemical change (with the production of gas) on being heated or struck
  • adj. serving to explode or characterized by explosion or sudden outburst
  • Equivalent
    unstable    sudden    detonative   
    Hyponym
    gunpowder    TNT    dynamite    nitro-glycerine   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    lyddite    cordite    fulminant    dynamogen    rackarock    fulminate    dynamite    roburite    gelignite    guncotton   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    corrosive    erosive    plosive   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    chemical    bomb    ammunition    similar    sudden    nuclear    initial    liquid    solid