flammable

Significado (Inglés)

Adj

1. Capable of burning.
2. Easily set on fire.
3. Easily set on fire.
4. (figuratively) Very likely to cause fighting or controversy; extremely contentious.

Noun

Any flammable substance.

Conceptos

inflamable

combustible

ignescente

Opuesto a

inflammable[contranym]]ic senses>, ;, non-flammable, nonflammable, noninflammable, unflammable, uninflammable, fireproof, incombustible

Sinónimos

combustible

inflammable

combustive

ignitable

passionate

touchy

volatile

comburant

comburent

deflagrable

ardent

fire-hazardous

burnable

Traducciones

inflammable

brennbar

inflamável

inflamable

εύφλεκτος

ontvlambaar

infiammabile

entflammbar

feuergefährlich

brandbaar

entzündlich

entzündbar

licht ontvlambaar

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ˈflæməbəl/

Etimología (Inglés)

Back-formation from inflammable, which is used to avoid confusion with non-flammable, as the prefix in- is often used to mean "un-; non-", although it was originally meant in a sense closely related to en-.