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Explosive

//ɛkˈspləʊsɪv//

Synonyms for "explosive" (174 found)

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Informal (33)

Adj, intj, name, noun, verb, slang(1 words)

Noun, punct, verb, slang(1 words)

Adj, adv, intj, noun, verb, slang(1 words)

Adj, adv, noun, verb, slang(2 words)

Adj, noun, phrase, verb, slang(1 words)

Adj, noun, slang(4 words)

delicate plastic volatile spunky

Adj, adv, verb, slang(1 words)

Adj, name, noun, verb, slang(1 words)

Adj, name, noun, slang(1 words)

Adj, adv, slang(1 words)

Adj, noun, verb, slang(5 words)

ugly banging rapping slapping exploding

Name, noun, verb, slang(1 words)

Noun, verb, slang(4 words)

phone dynamite blasting gunpowder

Adj, adv, noun, slang(1 words)

Adj, slang(6 words)

touchy dangerous edgy iffy high-strung startlish

Adj, name, slang(1 words)

Name, noun, slang(1 words)

General use (141)

Adj, adv, name, noun, verb(1 words)

Name, noun, verb(2 words)

Adjective(1 words)

Adj, noun, verb(11 words)

tense mute lateral retroflex bursting threatening fraught menacing popping flapping crashing

Adj, noun(34 words)

critical uncertain consonant sensitive liquid surd guttural dental unpredictable lingual emotional pharyngeal labial alveolar glottal palatal sonant bilabial occlusive inflammatory

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velar vocable volcanic continuant labiodental cacuminal inflammable combustible labiovelar laryngeal allophone eruptive plosive touch-and-go

Noun(28 words)

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ballistite cordite high explosive gelignite melinite smokeless powder plastic explosive trinitrotoluol

Adjective(33 words)

unsound nervous fiery shaky exciting irritable anxious cerebral skittish temperamental irascible mettlesome precarious hotheaded dicey excitable vocalic hazardous perilous apico-alveolar

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apico-dental high-spirited short-tempered peppery quick-tempered hot-tempered dangersome jeopardous perturbable agitable periculous explodable explosible

Adj, name(1 words)

Adj, verb(4 words)

unstable passionate alarming fulminating

Adj, name, noun(1 words)

Noun, verb(6 words)

syllable vowel voicing tapping knocking slatting

Adj, adv(1 words)

high spirited high strung speech sound voiced sound epenthetic vowel parasitic vowel prothetic vowel segmental phoneme syllabic nucleus syllabic peak transition sound voiceless sound emotionally unstable high-mettled highly emotional fraught with danger villanous saltpetre

Verb(1 words)

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