inflammable

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle French inflammable, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Medieval Latin inflammabilis, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin inflammare (“to set on fire”), from in (“in, on”) + flamma (“flame”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: ĭnʹflăm-ə-bəl, IPA^(key): /ɪnˈflæməbəl/

Adjective

inflammable (comparative more inflammable, superlative most inflammable)

1. Capable of burning; easily set on fire.
2. (figuratively) Easily excited; set off by the slightest excuse; easily enraged or inflamed.

Usage notes

• Inflammable can be misinterpreted as an antonym of flammable and so taken to have the opposite meaning to that intended. Where such confusion might arise, especially where this may be a safety hazard, one may prefer to use flammable or another synonym.

Synonyms

• (capable of burning): combustible, flammable
• (easily excited): hot-headed, quick to anger

Antonyms

• (capable of burning): fireproof, incombustible, non-flammable
• (easily excited): level-headed, unflappable,

Related terms

• inflammability
• inflammation
• inflame

Translations

capable of burning

• Bulgarian: запалим (bg) (zapalim)
• Catalan: inflamable (ca), combustible (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 易燃的 (zh) (yìrán de)

• Czech: vznětlivý, zápalný, hořlavý (cs)
• Danish: brændbar, letantændelig
• Dutch: ontvlambaar (nl)
• Finnish: palava (fi), tulenarka (fi), syttyvä (fi), helposti syttyvä
• French: inflammable (fr)
• Georgian: აალებადი (ka) (aalebadi)
• German: brennbar (de), entflammbar
• Hungarian: gyúlékony (hu)
• Icelandic: eldfimur
• Irish: so-adhainte, inlasta, inadhainte, adhantach
• Italian: infiammabile (it)
• Japanese: 引火性 (いんかせい, inkasei), 可燃 (ja) (kanen), 可燃性 (ja) (かねんせい, kanensei)
• Manx: so-lostey, so-ghreesaghey
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Norman: înfliammabl'ye
• Polish: palny (pl)
• Portuguese: inflamável (pt)
• Romanian: inflamabil (ro)
• Russian: легковоспламеня́ющийся (ru) (lexkovosplamenjájuščijsja), воспламеня́ющийся (ru) (vosplamenjájuščijsja), горю́чий (ru) (gorjúčij), огнеопа́сный (ru) (ogneopásnyj)
• Scottish Gaelic: loisgeach
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: го̀рљив, го̀рив

  Roman: gòrljiv (sh), gòriv (sh)

• Slovene: vnetljivo n
• Spanish: inflamable (es), combustible (es)
• Swedish: lättantändlig (sv), brännbar (sv)
• Tagalog: takaw-apoy
• Turkish: yanıcı (tr)
• Westrobothnian:

easily excited

• Finnish: tulinen (fi)
• Irish: sochorraithe, soghríosaithe
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Russian: вспы́льчивый (ru) (vspýlʹčivyj)
• Turkish: parlayıcı (tr)

Noun

inflammable (plural inflammables)

1. Any inflammable substance.

Further reading

• “inflammable”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “inflammable”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

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French

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle French inflammer +‎ -able, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin inflammabilis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.fla.mabl/
• Homophone: inflammables
• Hyphenation: in‧fla‧mmable

Adjective

inflammable (plural inflammables)

1. flammable, inflammable

Antonyms

• ininflammable

Derived terms

• Condition: inflammabilité
• Antonym: ininflammable

Further reading

• “inflammable”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.