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ex-plosive
[ik-sploh-siv] 
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ammunition
[am-yuh-nish-uhn]
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | projectiles for weaponry |
| Synonyms: | ammo, armament, ball, bomb, buckshot, bullet, cannonball, cartridge, charge, chemical, confetti, explosive, fuse, grenade, gunpowder, iron rations, materiel, missile, munition, napalm, powder, rocket, round, shell, shot, shrapnel, torpedo |
| Main Entry: | combustible |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | able to be exploded |
| Synonyms: | burnable, comburent, combustive, explosive, fiery, firing, flammable, ignitable, incendiary, inflammable, kindling, volatile |
| Antonyms: | noncombustible, nonexplosive |
| Main Entry: | explosive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | volatile, dangerous |
| Synonyms: | at the boiling point, bursting, charged, consequential, convulsive, detonating, detonative, ebullient, eruptive, fiery, forceful, frenzied, fulminant, fulminating, hazardous, impetuous, meteoric, overwrought, perilous, raging, rampant, stormy, tense, touchy, ugly, uncontrollable, unstable, vehement, violent, wild |
| Antonyms: | calm, peaceful, safe |
| Main Entry: | explosive |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something that blows up |
| Synonyms: | TNT, ammunition, bomb, booby trap, charge, detonator, dynamite, fireworks, grease, grenade, gunpowder, mine, missile, mulligan, munition, nitroglycerin, pineapple, powder, propellant, shell, shot, soup |
| Main Entry: | hotheaded |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | quick-tempered |
| Synonyms: | easily provoked, excitable, explosive, hot-tempered, impetuous, passionate, rash, short-fused, touchy, volatile |
| Main Entry: | inflammatory |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | instigative, angering |
| Synonyms: | anarchic, demagogic, exciting, explosive, fiery, incendiary, incitive, inflaming, insurgent, intemperate, provocative, rabble-rousing, rabid, rebellious, revolutionary, riotous, seditionary, seditious |
| Antonyms: | calming, mitigating, placating, pleasing, tranquilizing |
| Main Entry: | munitions |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ammunition |
| Synonyms: | ammo, armament, arsenal, bombs, bullets, explosives, grenades, gunpowder, missiles, shells, torpedos, weapons |
| Main Entry: | temperamental |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | angry most of the time; moody |
| Synonyms: | capricious, changeable, cussed, easily upset, emotional, erratic, excitable, explosive, fickle, fiery, froward, headstrong, high-strung, hotheaded, hyper, hypersensitive, impatient, in bad mood, inconsistent, irritable, mean, mercurial, neurotic, ornery, passionate, petulant, sensitive, thin-skinned, ticklish, touchy, uncertain, undependable, unpredictable, unreliable, unstable, variable, volatile, willful |
| Antonyms: | easygoing, happy, laid-back, peaceful, pleased |
| Main Entry: | unsafe |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dangerous |
| Synonyms: | alarming, chancy, erratic, explosive, fearsome, hanging by a thread, hazardous, insecure, on a limb, on thin ice, perilous, precarious, risky, shaky, slippery, threatening, ticklish, touch and go, touchy*, treacherous, uncertain, undependable, unreliable, unsound, unstable, untrustworthy |
| Antonyms: | harmless, protected, safe, secure |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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