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Explosive
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What's The Definition Of Explosive?
[n] a chemical substance that undergoes a rapid chemical change (with the production of gas) on being heated or struck
[adj] tending or serving to explode or characterized by explosion or sudden outburst; "an explosive device"; "explosive gas"; "explosive force"; "explosive violence"; "an explosive temper"
[adj] sudden and loud; "an explosive laugh"
[adj] liable to lead to sudden change or violence; "an explosive issue"; "a volatile situation with troops and rioters eager for a confrontation"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Explosive: bursting |
detonating |
detonative |
exploding |
sudden |
unstable |
volatile
Related Terms | Find terms related to Explosive: agitable |
alarming |
allophone |
alveolar |
anxious |
apico-alveolar |
apico-dental |
articulation |
aspiration |
assimilation |
bad |
Ballistite |
banging |
bilabial |
blasting |
bursting |
cacuminal |
cellulose nitrate |
cerebral |
chancy |
check |
combustible |
consonant |
continuant |
cordite |
cracking |
crashing |
critical |
dangerous |
dangersome |
delicate |
dental |
detonating |
dicey |
diphthong |
dissimilation |
dynamite |
edgy |
emotional |
emotionally unstable |
epenthetic vowel |
eruptive |
excitable |
explodable |
exploding |
explosible |
fiery |
flapping |
fraught |
fraught with danger |
fulminating |
gelignite |
glide |
glottal |
glottalization |
gunpowder |
guttural |
hasty |
hazardous |
high explosive |
highly emotional |
high-mettled |
high-spirited |
high-strung |
hot |
hotheaded |
hot-tempered |
iffy |
inflammable |
irascible |
irritable |
jeopardous |
knocking |
labial |
labialization |
labiodental |
labiovelar |
laryngeal |
lateral |
lingual |
liquid |
manner of articulation |
melinite |
menacing |
mettlesome |
modification |
monophthong |
morphophoneme |
mute |
nasal |
nasty |
nervous |
nitrocotton |
nitroglycerin |
occlusive |
palatal |
parasitic vowel |
parlous |
passionate |
peak |
peppery |
periculous |
perilous |
perturbable |
pharyngeal |
pharyngealization |
phone |
phoneme |
plastic |
plastic explosive |
plosive |
popping |
powder |
precarious |
prickly |
prothetic vowel |
quick |
quick-tempered |
rapping |
retroflex |
segmental phoneme |
semivowel |
sensitive |
serious |
shaky |
short-tempered |
skittish |
slapping |
slatting |
smokeless powder |
sonant |
sonority |
speech sound |
spunky |
startlish |
stop |
surd |
syllabic nucleus |
syllabic peak |
syllable |
tapping |
tense |
threatening |
TNT |
touch-and-go |
touchy |
transition sound |
trinitrotoluol |
triphthong |
ugly |
uncertain |
unpredictable |
unsound |
unstable |
velar |
villanous saltpetre |
vocable |
vocalic |
vocoid |
voice |
voiced sound |
voiceless sound |
voicing |
volatile |
volcanic |
vowel
See Also | azoimide |
blasting gelatin |
burster |
bursting charge |
charge |
chemical |
cordite |
dynamite |
explosive charge |
explosive device |
gunpowder |
high explosive |
HN |
hydrazoic acid |
hydrogen azide |
load |
payload |
plastic explosive |
plastique |
powder |
smokeless powder |
TNT |
trinitrotoluene |
warhead
Explosive In Webster's Dictionary
\Ex*plo"sive\, a. [Cf. F. explosif.]
Driving or bursting out with violence and noise; causing
explosion; as, the explosive force of gunpowder.
\Ex*plo"sive\, n.
1. An explosive agent; a compound or mixture susceptible of a
rapid chemical reaction, as gunpowder, or nitro-glycerine.
2. 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.
Note: [See Guide to Pronunciation, [root] 155-7, 184.]
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