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| Main Entry: | incendiary |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | causing trouble, damage |
| Synonyms: | dangerous, inflammatory, malevolent, provocative, seditious, subversive, treacherous, wicked, demagogic, dissentious, rabble-rousing |
| Antonyms: | peacemaking |
| Main Entry: | incendiary |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who causes fire, trouble |
| Synonyms: | agitator, arsonist, criminal, demagogue, demonstrator, firebrand*, insurgent, pyromaniac, rabble-rouser*, rebel, revolutionary, rioter |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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| Main Entry: | agent provocateur |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | secret agent |
| Synonyms: | agitator, firebrand, goad, incendiary, instigator, operative, rabble-rouser, radical, ringleader, spark, spy, troublemaker, intelligence agent, noncooperator, provocateur, provocative agent, provoker |
| Main Entry: | agitator |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who disturbs, causes trouble |
| Synonyms: | advocate, agent, anarchist, champion, demagogue, dissident, fighter, firebrand*, heretic, incendiary, instigator, malcontent, partisan, propagandist, rabble-rouser, radical, reactionary, rebel, revolutionary, ringleader, troublemaker, zealot, adjy, disrupter, dogmatist, fomenter, inciter, leftist, mover, provocateur, pusher, reformer, revisionist, sparkplug, wave maker |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | catalyst |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something which incites activity |
| Synonyms: | agitator, goad, impetus, impulse, incendiary, incentive, incitement, motivation, reactionary, spark plug, spur, stimulant, adjuvant, enzyme, incitation, radical stimulus, reactant, synergist, wave maker |
| Antonyms: | block, prevention, blockage, preventer |
| 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: | demagogue |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | agitating person |
| Synonyms: | agitator, fanatic, firebrand*, incendiary, instigator, politician, rabble-rouser*, radical, rebel, revolutionary, troublemaker, fomenter, haranger, hothead, inciter, inflamer, soapbox orator |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | flammable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | easily set afire |
| Synonyms: | combustible, incendiary, inflammable, burnable, ignitable |
| Antonyms: | fireproof, flameproof, incombustible, non-flammable |
| Main Entry: | harmful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | injurious, hurtful |
| Synonyms: | adverse, bad, baleful, baneful, calamitous, consumptive, corrupting, damaging, deleterious, destructive, detrimental, dire, disadvantageous, disastrous, evil, incendiary, inimical, internecine, malicious, malignant, menacing, mischievous, murderous, nocuous, noxious, painful, pernicious, pestiferous, risky, ruinous, sinful, sinister, subversive, toxic, unhealthy, unsafe, unwholesome, virulent, cataclysmic, catastrophic, corroding, crippling, harassing, malefic, pestilential, undermining |
| Main Entry: | hellion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | troublemaker |
| Synonyms: | agent provocateur, agitator, demon, evildoer, firebrand*, heel*, incendiary, instigator, loose cannon*, mischief-maker, punk*, rabble-rouser*, rascal, recreant, rogue, rowdy*, smart aleck*, wise guy*, inciter, inflamer |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | inflammable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | ready to burn |
| Synonyms: | combustible, dangerous, flammable, hazardous, incendiary, risky, unsafe, burnable, ignitable |
| Notes: | remember inflammable has in- which means 'into,' meaning it will burst into flame; non- in nonflammable means 'not,' meaning will not burst into flame |
| Antonyms: | fire-proof, incombustible, non-flammable, non-inflammable |
| 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: | instigator |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | troublemaker |
| Synonyms: | agent provocateur, agitator, firebrand, hellion, incendiary, knave, meddler, mischief-maker, nuisance, punk*, rabble-rouser*, ringleader, wise guy*, inciter, inflamer, provocateur, sparkplug |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | subversive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | rebellious, destructive |
| Synonyms: | incendiary, inflammatory, insurgent, riotous, ruinous, seditious, treasonous, underground, insurrectionary, overthrowing, perversive, undermining |
| Antonyms: | loyal, obedient |
| Main Entry: | troublemaker |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who causes a problem |
| Synonyms: | agent provocateur, agitator, firebrand*, gremlin*, heel*, hellion, incendiary, instigator, loose cannon*, meddler, mischief-maker, nuisance, phony*, punk*, rabble-rouser*, rascal, recreant, smart aleck*, snake*, stormy petrel*, weasel*, bad actor, inciter, inflamer |
| Antonyms: | peacemaker |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | arsonist |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | one who sets fires illegally |
| Synonyms: | firebug*, incendiary, pyromaniac, torch |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | terrorist |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | subversive |
| Synonyms: | bomber, guerrilla, incendiary, radical, rebel, revolutionary, thug |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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| Main Entry: | combustible |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
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| Main Entry: | destruction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Kafkaesque, baneful, deadly, deletory, destroyed, destroying, destructive, detrimental, disintegrous, dislimning, exitious, extinct, fatiferous, fricative, incendiary, internecine, irrefragable, lethiferous, marcescent, marcid, mundicidious, nocuous, nodding to its fall, perishing, phthartic, poisonous, putrescent, ruinous, saprogenic, slighted, subversive, suicidal, symphoric, tottering to its fall, trembling to its fall, venene, veneniferous, virose, vorpal, wasted
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| Main Entry: | hate |
| Part of Speech: | noun, verb |
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ruthless, abhorrent, abominable, acrimonious, antisocial, at daggers drawn, atrocious, averse from, barbarous, belluine, bitter, bloodthirsty, bloody-minded, brutal, brutish, caustic, churlish, cold-blooded, cold-hearted, crossed in love, cruel, demoniacal, despiteful, devilish, diabolic, diabolical, disgusting, disliked, disobliging, draconian, egotistical, envenomed, evil-disposed, evil-minded, fell, ferine, ferocious, fiendish, fiendlike, flint-hearted, forsaken, galling, grinding, hard of heart, hard-hearted, harsh, hateful, hellish, ill-conditioned, ill-contrived, ill-disposed, ill-intentioned, ill-natured, implacable, incendiary, infernal, inhuman, inhumane, inimical, inofficious, insulting, invidious, irritating, jaundiced, jealous, jealous as a Barbary pigeon, jilted, lasslorn, lovelorn, maleficent, malevolent, malicious, malign, malignant, marble-hearted, misanthropic, misopolemical, mordacious, morose, not on speaking terms, obnoxious, odious, offensive, provoking, rancorous, rejected, relentless, repulsive, satanic, set against, shocking, spiteful, stony-hearted, sullen, surly, tameless, truculent, unamiable, unbeloved, unbenevolent, uncandid, uncared for, uncharitable, undeplored, unendeared, unfriendly, ungracious, unkind, unlamented, unloved, unmourned, unnatural, unpatriotic, untamed, unvalued, venomous, virulent, wlatsome, yellow-eyed
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