- 3. Grow red, feverish, and angry.
Inflammability, n. Inflammableness, combustibility, combustibleness.
Inflammable, a.
- 1. Combustible.
- 2. Excitable.
Inflammable air. Hydrogen.
Inflammableness, n. See Inflammability.
Inflammation, n.
- 1. Burning, conflagration, setting on fire.
- 2. (Med.) Swelling and redness.
- 3. Excitement, anger, animosity, turbulence, heat, violence, rage.
Inflammatory, a.
- 1. Inflaming, fiery.
- 2. Incendiary, seditious.
- 3. (Med.) Tending to inflammation.
Inflate, v. a.
- 1. Swell (by blowing), distend, expand, bloat, blow up.
- 2. Puff up, make conceited.
- 3. Enlarge, increase.
Inflated, a.
- 1. Distended (with air), swollen, bloated, puffed up.
- 2. Tumid, turgid, bombastic, grandiloquent, altiloquent, magniloquent, stilted, declamatory, rhetorical,
sophomorical, high-flown.