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Inflammatory

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

adj. Arousing passion or strong emotion, especially anger, belligerence, or desire.

adj. Characterized or caused by inflammation.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

adj. Tending to inflame or provoke somebody.

adj. Causing or caused by inflammation.

n. Any material that causes inflammation

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. Tending to inflame, kindle, or irritate.

adj. Tending to excite anger, animosity, tumult, or sedition; seditious.

adj. Accompanied with, or tending to cause, preternatural heat and excitement of arterial action.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Tending to inflame, or to excite or produce inflammation: as, inflammatory medicines.

Of the nature of, or accompanied or caused by, the morbid condition called inflammation: as, inflammatory rheumatism.

Of, pertaining to, or indicative of inflammation, or an inflamed condition: as, inflammatory symptoms.

Tending to excite passion, desire, etc.; of a nature to rouse anger, animosity, tumult, sedition, etc.: as, an inflammatory harangue.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

adj. characterized or caused by inflammation

adj. arousing to action or rebellion

Word Usage

"It cites a series of what he calls inflammatory statements that show "that judgments have been reached and the tenor of the hearing will be prosecutorial.""

Equivalent

unhealthy provocative

Cross Reference

inflammatory fever

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

seditious kindling excitative irritating dissentious

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

defamatory

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

metabolic chronic autoimmune pulmonary respiratory