Synonyms for incendiary
ɪnˈsɛn diˌɛr iin·cen·di·a·ry

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1. arsonist, incendiary, firebugnoun

   a criminal who illegally sets fire to property

   Synonyms:
   firebomb, arsonist, firebug, incendiary bomb

   Antonyms:
   unprovoking, noncombustible, unprovocative, incombustible

2. incendiary bomb, incendiary, firebombadjective

   a bomb that is designed to start fires; is most effective against flammable targets (such as fuel)

   Synonyms:
   firebug, arsonist, incendiary bomb, firebomb

   Antonyms:
   noncombustible, incombustible, unprovoking, unprovocative

3. incendiaryadjective

   involving deliberate burning of property

   "an incendiary fire"

   Synonyms:
   instigative, inflammatory, rabble-rousing, seditious, incitive

   Antonyms:
   incombustible, noncombustible, unprovoking, unprovocative

4. incendiary, incitive, inflammatory, instigative, rabble-rousing, seditiousadjective

   arousing to action or rebellion

   Synonyms:
   instigative, seditious, incitive, rabble-rousing, inflammatory, insurgent, subversive

   Antonyms:
   unprovocative, unprovoking, incombustible, noncombustible

5. incendiaryadjective

   capable of catching fire spontaneously or causing fires or burning readily

   "an incendiary agent"; "incendiary bombs"

   Synonyms:
   instigative, inflammatory, rabble-rousing, seditious, incitive

   Antonyms:
   incombustible, noncombustible, unprovoking, unprovocative

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1. incendiaryadjective

   Synonyms:
   inflammatory, seditious, factious

2. incendiarynoun

   Synonyms:
   burner of buildings

3. incendiarynoun

   Synonyms:
   firebrand, political agitator

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1. List of paraphrases for "incendiary":

   inflammatory, molotov, petrol, inflammable, flammable, combustion, holocaust

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1. Charlie Baker:

   I heard what The President said today about dominating and fighting. I know I should be surprised when I hear incendiary words like this from The President, but I'm not, at so many times during these past several weeks when the country needed compassion and leadership the most, it was simply nowhere to be found.

2. John Kasich:

   If I said some of the things he said, I would've been run out of Ohio, i cannot explain it, I don't understand how people looked the other way and didn't care about some of these incendiary things that and the way that not only him but others behaved.

3. Charlie Baker:

   I heard what the President said today about dominating and fighting. I know I should be surprised when I hear incendiary words like this from him, but I'm not, at so many times during these past several weeks when the country needed compassion and leadership the most, it was simply nowhere to be found.

4. Hillary Clinton:

   I really deplore the tone of his campaign, the inflammatory rhetoric that he is using to divide people, and his going after groups of people with hateful, incendiary rhetoric, it's not the first time he's demonstrated a penchant for sexism.

5. Yehuda Fuchs:

   We did not prepare for a pogrom on the scale of dozens of people who come with incendiary devices… they go and set fire to random Palestinian houses, vehicles, etc. – simply indiscriminate terror.