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| Main Entry: | explosive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | volatile, dangerous |
| Synonyms: | bursting, charged, consequential, ebullient, fiery, forceful, frenzied, hazardous, impetuous, meteoric, overwrought, perilous, raging, rampant, stormy, tense, touchy, ugly, uncontrollable, unstable, vehement, violent, wild, at the boiling point, convulsive, detonating, detonative, eruptive, fulminant, fulminating |
| Antonyms: | calm, peaceful, safe |
| Main Entry: | explosive |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something that blows up |
| Synonyms: | ammunition, bomb, booby trap*, charge, dynamite, fireworks, grease*, grenade, mine, missile, powder, shell, shot, TNT, detonator, gunpowder, mulligan, munition, nitroglycerin, pineapple, propellant, soup* |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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| Main Entry: | ammunition |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | projectiles for weaponry |
| Synonyms: | armament, ball, bomb, bullet, cartridge, charge, chemical, explosive, fuse, grenade, materiel, missile, powder, rocket, round, shell, shot, ammo, buckshot, cannonball, confetti, gunpowder, iron rations, munition, napalm, shrapnel, torpedo |
| Main Entry: | bomb |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | exploding weapon |
| Synonyms: | Molotov cocktail, atom bomb, charge, device, explosive, grenade, hydrogen bomb, mine, missile, nuclear bomb, projectile, rocket, shell, bombshell, ticker, torpedo |
| Main Entry: | combustible |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | able to be exploded |
| Synonyms: | explosive, fiery, flammable, incendiary, inflammable, kindling, volatile, burnable, comburent, combustive, firing, ignitable |
| Antonyms: | noncombustible, nonexplosive |
| Main Entry: | hotheaded |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | quick-tempered |
| Synonyms: | excitable, explosive, hot-tempered, impetuous, passionate, rash, touchy, volatile, easily provoked, short-fused |
| Main Entry: | inflammatory |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | instigative, angering |
| Synonyms: | exciting, explosive, fiery, incendiary, insurgent, intemperate, provocative, rabid, rebellious, revolutionary, riotous, seditious, anarchic, demagogic, incitive, inflaming, rabble-rousing, seditionary |
| Antonyms: | calming, pleasing, mitigating, placating, tranquilizing |
| Main Entry: | temperamental |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | angry most of the time; moody |
| Synonyms: | capricious, changeable, emotional, erratic, excitable, explosive, fickle, fiery, froward, headstrong, high-strung*, hotheaded*, impatient, inconsistent, irritable, mean, mercurial, neurotic, ornery, passionate, petulant, sensitive, thin-skinned*, ticklish, touchy, uncertain, undependable, unpredictable, unreliable, unstable, variable, volatile, willful, cussed, easily upset, hyper, hypersensitive, in bad mood |
| Antonyms: | easygoing, happy, laid-back, peaceful, pleased |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | unsafe |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dangerous |
| Synonyms: | alarming, chancy, erratic, explosive, hazardous, insecure, perilous, precarious, risky, shaky, slippery, threatening, ticklish*, touchy*, treacherous, uncertain, undependable, unreliable, unsound, unstable, untrustworthy, fearsome, hanging by a thread, on a limb, on thin ice, touch and go |
| Antonyms: | harmless, protected, safe, secure |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | unsettled |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bothered, upset |
| Synonyms: | active, agitated, antsy*, anxious, busy, changeable, changing, complex, complicated, confused, disorderly, disturbed, explosive, fidgety, fluid, inconstant, insecure, mobile, mutable, on edge*, perilous, perturbed, precarious, restive, restless, shaken, shaky, tense, thrown, ticklish, troubled, unbalanced, uncertain, uneasy, unpredictable, unstable, unsteady, variable, wavering, wobbling, changeful, flustered, kinetic, rattled, shifting, shook up, unnerved, unpeaceful, unquiet, unrestful |
| Antonyms: | content, happy, settled, calmed |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | munitions |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ammunition |
| Synonyms: | armament, arsenal, ammo, bombs, bullets, explosives, grenades, gunpowder, missiles, shells, torpedos, weapons |
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| Main Entry: | aggravation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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aberrant, abrupt, acute, aggravable, aggravated, aggravating, agitated, all of a twitter, baffled, bewildered, bizarre, bluff, blustering, boisterous, brainsick, broken, brooding, brusque, catatonic, comatose, confounded, confused, convulsive, delirious, desperate, desultory, detonating, deviant, diabolical, disedifying, disorderly, distracted, distraught, disturbed, dizzy, ebullient, erratic, excited, explosive, extravagant, fanatic, fazed, feral, ferocious, fierce, fierce as a tiger, fiery, flaming, flustered, frantic, frazzled, frenzied, furious, giddy-paced, headstrong, hot, hysteric, imbalanced, impetuous, importunate, in hysterics, incontrollable, infuriate, insuppressible, irrepressible, jangled, kamikaze, lobotomized, maladjusted, manic, mental, meteoric, mixed-up, muddled, neurotic, obsessive, obstreperous, off-the-wall, outrageous, overwrought, peculiar, perverse, phobic, pixilated, procellous, queer, raging, ramagious, rampant, rattled, ravening, red-hot, restless, retarded, riotous, rocky, roiled, rough, rude, saltatory, saturnalian, savage, scorching, shaken-up, shaking, shambling, sharp, shattered, spasmodic, spooked, stormy, stressed-out, strung-out, subsultory, tameless, tangled, tremulous, troublous, tumultuary, tumultuous, turbulent, unappeasable, unbridled, uncontrollable, unextinguished, ungentle, ungovernable, unmitigable, unmitigated, unquelled, unquenched, unquiet, unrelieved, unrepressed, unruly, unsound, unstable, uproarious, vehement, violent, volcanic, warm, waspish, wild, worked-up, worse, zoned
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