combustible
English
Etymology
From Middle French combustible
Adjective
combustible (comparative more combustible, superlative most combustible)
- Capable of burning
- Dumping fertilizer on top of whatever mysterious goop was in the storage tank created a combustible mix which caught on fire.
- South
- Sin is to the soul like fire to combustible matter.
- (figuratively) Easily kindled or excited; quick; fiery; irascible.
- Washington Irving
- Arnold was a combustible character.
- Washington Irving
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Translations
capable of burning
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Translations
material capable of burning
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Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kombusˈtible/, [kõmbusˈt̪iβle]
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Further reading
- “combustible” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
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