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Synonyms for explosive
ɪkˈsploʊ sɪvex·plo·sive
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Princeton's WordNet
explosiveadjective
a chemical substance that undergoes a rapid chemical change (with the production of gas) on being heated or struck
Antonyms:
stable, nonexplosive, gradualexplosiveadjective
serving to explode or characterized by explosion or sudden outburst
"an explosive device"; "explosive gas"; "explosive force"; "explosive violence"; "an explosive temper"
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volatileAntonyms:
nonexplosive, stable, gradualexplosive, volatileadjective
liable to lead to sudden change or violence
"an explosive issue"; "a volatile situation with troops and rioters eager for a confrontation"
Antonyms:
nonexplosive, gradual, stableexplosiveadjective
sudden and loud
"an explosive laugh"
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volatileAntonyms:
gradual, stable, nonexplosive
Editors Contribution
dynamite
a substance that can be made to explode
the robber threw an explosive at the police and he ran away.
Submitted by rinat on August 15, 2019
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "explosive":
explosives, volatile, remnants, ordnance, explosion, plastique, booby, bombings, pyrotechnic, bomb, combustible, eruptive
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#6158 | bomb | |
#9053 | explosion | |
#11983 | explosive | |
#12828 | volatile | |
#16316 | explosives | |
#18057 | bombings | |
#21408 | ordnance | |
#24481 | remnants | |
#31639 | combustible | |
#46295 | booby | |
#47567 | fickle | |
#77106 | pyrotechnic | |
#97484 | eruptive | |
#107395 | plastique |
How to use explosive in a sentence?
[My father] didn’t get a choice to resign,” Milley said. “Those kids there at Abbey Gate, they don’t get a choice to resign,” Milley said, referring to the 13 American service members who died during the evacuation from Kabul in late August when an ISIS-K suicide bomber detonated an explosive vest. “They can't resign so I'm not going to resign. There's no way.”
This investigation is of the highest priority for Federal Bureau of Investigation and involves more than 20 Federal Bureau of Investigation field offices across the country, although at this time no explosive devices have been found at any of the locations, The FBI takes all threats with the utmost seriousness and we are committed to thoroughly and aggressively investigating these threats.
Simply put, this is a collapse of the medical system, the highly infectious British variant and slipping alertness have led to this explosive growth in the number of patients.
To put it bluntly, the last century of fire policies have left our forests explosive.
I walked into the door at the New Yorker with an explosive reportable piece that should have been public earlier, and immediately the New Yorker recognized that, and it is not accurate to say that it was not reportable. In fact, there were multiple determinations that it was reportable at NBC.
Translations for explosive
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- مادة متفجرةArabic
- взривен, експлозив, избухливBulgarian
- explosiuCatalan, Valencian
- výbušný, výbušninaCzech
- explosiv, Sprengstoff, aufbrausendGerman
- explosivoSpanish
- räjähtävä, räjähde, räjähdysmäinen, räjähdysherkkä, räjähdysaine, äkkipikainenFinnish
- explosifFrench
- irascibile, collerico, esplosivo, iracondoItalian
- 爆発物Japanese
- സ്ഫോടനവസ്തുMalayalam
- explosief, springstof, plofstofDutch
- wybuchowyPolish
- взрывчатое вещество, взрывчатка, взрывной, вспыльчивый, взрывчатыйRussian
- eksplozivenSlovene
- patlayıcıTurkish
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