Term Gallery logo

Meanings of inflammable in English

Easily ignited.

Related terms
Usage of inflammable in English
1
The danger of the inflammable film was in the minds of all.
Nan Sherwood's Winter Holidays; Or, Rescuing the Runaways
2
But even if you are, there is inflammable material in the neighborhood.
Plays: the Father; Countess Julie; the Outlaw; the Stronger
3
Her heart seemed not easy to reach; her impulses were not inflammable.
The Spenders: A Tale of the Third Generation
4
The hopeless passion ran like a corroding poison through the inflammable tissue.
Six Women
5
You're both too mad and inflammable to be in the same neighbourhood.
Tramping on Life / An Autobiographical Narrative
6
Hydrogen is highly inflammable and, after being burned, water is its emission.
The Irish Times
7
The wood was dry, and it was of a very inflammable nature.
Oak Openings
8
To make it more inflammable the roller was often coated with tar.
The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion
9
A N. Y. ordinance prohibits the use of inflammable gases in balloons.
The new yorker
10
And you heard all this from that inflammable hemorrhoid J. P. Kepler.
Carrion comfort
11
Fahrenheit, changes back again to the inflammable substance we know so well.
Elsie Venner
12
They were shafts made highly inflammable by means of resin and pitch.
As It Was in the Beginning
13
Wing coverings are rather inflammable, and he was not taking any chances.
The Thunder Bird
14
Poisons, explosives, inflammable substances, and live animals are excluded from the mails.
Business Hints for Men and Women
15
But as to Chrysis, I know her for a most inflammable lady.
The Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03
16
But my daughter is manifestly most inflammable, wherefore I will burn her.
The Twilight of the Gods, and Other Tales
About this term
More collocations
Inflammable through the time
Inflammable across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common