What is another word for explosive?
528 synonyms found
Pronunciation:
[ ɛksplˈə͡ʊsɪv], [ ɛksplˈəʊsɪv], [ ɛ_k_s_p_l_ˈəʊ_s_ɪ_v]
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Similar words for explosive:
- all (adjective)
- combustible (adjective)
- excitable (adjective)
- hotheaded (adjective)
- inflammatory (adjective)
- other relevant words (adjective)
- temperamental (adjective)
- unsafe (adjective)
- unsettled (adjective)
- vulgar (adjective)
- ammunition (noun)
- bomb (noun)
- bursting (noun)
- detonating (noun)
- detonative (noun)
- eruptive (noun)
- exploding (noun)
- explosive (noun)
- other relevant words (noun)
- other synonyms
- charge
- firecracker
- nitroglycerin
- other relevant words
- other relevant words (noun)
Synonyms for Explosive:
adj.
• all (adjective) • combustible (adjective) • excitable (adjective)- cranky,
- edgy,
- fiery,
- sensitive,
- high-strung,
- excitable,
- touchy,
- stormy,
- volcanic,
- irritable,
- emotional,
- fragile,
- ardent,
- passionate,
- tempestuous,
- hot-tempered,
- rash,
- crusty,
- short-tempered,
- quick-tempered,
- reckless,
- brittle,
- impulsive,
- nervous.
- most short fused,
- more short-fused,
- ex-citable,
- more short fused,
- most short-fused,
- hot tempered,
- more shortfused,
- ex citable,
- shortfused,
- most shortfused.
- hottempered,
- on thin ice,
- combustible,
- on a limb,
- unsettled,
- unpeaceful,
- changeful,
- hanging by thread,
- short-fused,
- hotheaded,
- short fused,
- easily provoked,
- unrestful,
- inflammatory,
- touch and go.
- in secure,
- in securest,
- in-securest,
- un-safer,
- pre carious,
- in-securer,
- un-soundest,
- un-sound,
- un-trustworthy,
- un safe,
- in-secure,
- on limb,
- fearsome,
- un safest,
- un-sounder,
- pre-carious,
- un sounder,
- in securer,
- un-safest,
- un sound,
- un-safe,
- hanging by a thread,
- touch go,
- un safer.
- un-balanced,
- most unrestful,
- un-peaceful,
- un-quiet,
- most changeful,
- unnerved,
- dis-orderly,
- in-constant,
- un steadiest,
- most shifting,
- un-steadier,
- un steady,
- most unpeaceful,
- un restful,
- un easiest,
- un quieter,
- more unrestful,
- most rattled,
- un-settled,
- un peaceful,
- un easy,
- more changeful,
- dis orderly,
- un quietest,
- un easier,
- un-easier,
- more rattled,
- un-restful,
- most unnerved,
- un nerved,
- un settled,
- mutable,
- more unpeaceful,
- un-quieter,
- un quiet,
- un-easiest,
- un-nerved,
- more unnerved,
- un steadier,
- un-steadiest,
- un-quietest.
n.
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•
- soulful,
- hysterical,
- histrionic,
- torrid,
- intense,
- impassioned.
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•
- shrill,
- resounding,
- loud,
- piercing,
- uproarious,
- noisy,
- riotous,
- deafening,
- can't hear yourself think,
- Ear-splitting.
- pineapples,
- confetti,
- rocket,
- ammo,
- missiles,
- cannonballs,
- iron rations,
- gunpowder,
- munitions,
- napalms,
- chemical,
- Torpedoes,
- shrapnel,
- AMMOS,
- buckshot,
- napalm,
- shrapnels,
- military,
- pineapple,
- ammunition,
- fireball,
- gunpowders,
- chemicals,
- bomb,
- trinitrotoluene,
- fireballs,
- chemical substance,
- technology,
- torpedo,
- cannonball.
Other synonyms:
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- long-range,
- strategic,
- nuclear,
- dangerous.
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- conventional,
- tactical,
- offensive,
- charge.
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- blast.
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- live.
- Slatting,
- provocative,
- shot,
- start,
- cellulose nitrate,
- wild,
- loaded,
- expand,
- inflaming,
- depart,
- aspiration,
- surd,
- munition,
- continuant,
- moody,
- hot-blooded,
- chancy,
- violent,
- anxious,
- incendiary,
- liquid,
- Jeopardous,
- dangersome,
- vehement,
- impatient,
- cancel,
- misfire,
- velar,
- fickle,
- explosion,
- hammer and tongs,
- frantic,
- high-spirited,
- glottal,
- erupt,
- grouchy,
- popping,
- fear,
- hasty,
- menacing,
- hot,
- treacherous,
- tritonal,
- highly strung,
- Lyddite,
- mutinous,
- pharyngealization,
- perilous,
- gelignite,
- ferocious,
- parlous,
- phoneme,
- laryngeal,
- firecracker,
- voice,
- Semtex,
- dissimilation,
- nasal,
- sonant,
- crashing,
- manner of articulation,
- fervid,
- spunky,
- Fomenting,
- diphthong,
- skittish,
- labiovelar,
- tumbledown,
- glottalization,
- grease,
- eruptive,
- Melinite,
- curt,
- voicing,
- detonate,
- shoot,
- vocoid,
- vowel,
- Guideless,
- Perturbable,
- uncontrollable,
- shell,
- nitroglycerin,
- modification,
- prickly,
- soup,
- brusque,
- frightful,
- paroxysmal,
- dramatise,
- blasting powder,
- Slapping,
- touch-and-go,
- nitrocotton,
- at the boiling point,
- impetuous,
- bang-bang,
- powder,
- bluff,
- blasting gelatin,
- flop,
- joker,
- Hot-headed,
- snappish,
- excruciating,
- keen,
- detonator,
- helpless,
- blow up,
- semivowel,
- glide,
- dicey,
- bad-humoured,
- Startlish,
- top-heavy,
- mine,
- disprove,
- vocalic,
- voiced sound,
- deep,
- escape,
- crotchety,
- temperamental,
- pharyngeal,
- speech sound,
- Crumbling,
- aggrandize,
- palatal,
- huffish,
- cacuminal,
- waspish,
- ebullient,
- blasting,
- precarious,
- guncotton,
- tense,
- meteoric,
- explode,
- banging,
- fulminate,
- intensive,
- booby trap,
- retroflex,
- rabid,
- overwrought,
- convulsive,
- phone,
- fearful,
- fulminant,
- bursting charge,
- high explosive,
- break,
- rough,
- ominous,
- plosive,
- tottering,
- ramshackle,
- spasmodic,
- dramatize,
- cheddite,
- Pentaerythritol Tetranitrate,
- peak,
- loads,
- tapping,
- critical,
- mercury fulminate,
- peevish,
- bad,
- dental,
- wind,
- smokeless powder,
- syllable,
- illomened,
- serious,
- destruction,
- pyroxyline,
- waterlogged,
- charged,
- cracking,
- rebellious,
- vicious,
- hard,
- short,
- articulation,
- unsteady,
- irascible,
- assimilation,
- vocable,
- consonant,
- amplify,
- knocking,
- mettlesome,
- Agitable,
- petulant,
- High-mettled,
- plastic,
- allophone,
- fervent,
- terrible,
- potassium nitrate,
- hypersensitive,
- Monophthong,
- explosive material,
- gruff,
- firework,
- rousing,
- hair-trigger,
- lingual,
- hellacious,
- crabbed,
- testy,
- alarming,
- Fulminating,
- quick,
- frenzied,
- curmudgeonly,
- burster,
- unsound,
- apico-dental,
- uncertain,
- cordite,
- Labiodental,
- lateral,
- check,
- labial,
- aggrandise,
- explosive charge,
- occlusive,
- explosively,
- fireworks,
- crabby,
- turkey,
- shaky,
- squib,
- mute,
- mulligan,
- forceful,
- flapping,
- embroider,
- consequential,
- nitro,
- Periculous,
- fraught,
- fraught with danger,
- cerebral,
- iffy,
- Labialization,
- unreliable,
- threatening,
- stop,
- plastic explosive,
- rapping,
- guttural,
- missile,
- actuate,
- rampant,
- ugly,
- delicate,
- activate,
- revolutionary,
- peppery,
- plastique,
- traitorous,
- sonority,
- raging,
- alveolar,
- tnt,
- bilabial,
- landmine,
- seditious,
- sparkler,
- capricious,
- huffy,
- enlarge,
- Triphthong,
- unpredictable,
- grumpy,
- nasty,
- explosives,
- apico-alveolar,
- morphophoneme.
How to use "Explosive" in context?
Explosives are materials that can be spontaneously ignited, causing an explosion. They are commonly used in military and bomb explosions as well as in mining, quarrying, and other industrial applications.
The most common explosives are traditional explosives such as dynamite and TNT. These explosives are composed of a number of chemicals that together form an explosive mixture when the materials are heated. This mixture, when detonated, produces a powerful explosion.
Other explosives, such as C-4, are made from plastic explosives that are surrounded by a metal casing. When the explosives are heated, the metal casing explodes, causing the plastic explosives to detonate.
Paraphrases for Explosive:
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Equivalence
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Adjective
explosives.
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Adjective
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Reverse Entailment
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Noun, plural
BOMBS.
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Noun, plural
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Independent
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Adjective
booby, explode, improvised, phenomenal, pyrotechnical, sensitive, spectacular, hair-trigger.
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Noun, singular or mass
blockbuster, booby, explosion.
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Adjective
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Other Related
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Adjective
combustible, unexploded, volatile.
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Adjective
Holonyms for Explosive:
n.
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artifact
explosive device.
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artifact
Hyponym for Explosive:
n.
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artifact
chemical substance, chemical.
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artifact
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