Word Type

Noun

Adjective

Adjective

The word "projectile" can be used as noun, adjective and adjective.

Word Relationships

Typical Location

air baseball battle battle field canon gun tornado weapon

Derived Terms

microprojectile nonprojectile projectile point projectile vomit projectile vomiting projectile-vomit superprojectile

Context

physics

Broader Terms (Hypernyms)

arm vehicle weapon weapon system

Type Of (IsA)

non agentive artifact object powered device weapon

Receives Action

fired from barrel fired from gun

Related Terms

missile rocket

Related Terms

arrow ballistic bullet firing flying flying object gun guns like like bullet missile object often often ballistic rocket spew target vomiting

Similar Terms

dynamic dynamic dynamical

Synonym Network

rocket

Used For

carry explosives catching creating weapons ejecting games hit hit object hurling injuring killing launching penetrating enemys armor project over distance propelling rapid movement shoot shoot from cannon shooting strike throwing

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.