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Meaning of 'inflammatory' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Inflammatory [ a.]
- Tending to inflame, kindle, or irritate.
- Tending to excite anger, animosity, tumult, or sedition; seditious; as, inflammatory libels, writings, speeches, or publications.
- Accompanied with, or tending to cause, preternatural heat and excitement of arterial action; as, an inflammatory disease.

Meaning of 'inflammatory' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . inflammatory [ s]
Meaning (1):
- characterized or caused by inflammation
Example in sentence:
  • an inflammatory process;
  • an inflammatory response

Nearby Words:

infabricated infallibilist infallibility infallible infallibleness infallibly infame infamies infamize infamized

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