combustible
English
editEtymology
editFrom Middle French combustible, equivalent to combust + -ible.
Pronunciation
editAdjective
editcombustible (comparative more combustible, superlative most combustible)
- Capable of burning.
- Dumping fertilizer on top of whatever mysterious goop was in the storage tank created a combustible mix which caught fire.
- 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volumes (please specify |volume=I to VI), London:
- Sin is to the soul like fire to combustible matter.
- 2023 March 22, “Network News: Class 175s withdrawn for safety checks after fires”, in RAIL, number 979, page 13:
- The rest were undergoing special underbody cleaning safety checks at TfW depots, after speculation that the cause of the incidents may have been a build-up of engine oil and combustible material such as fallen leaves and general detritus.
- (figurative, dated) Easily kindled or excited; quick; fiery; irascible.
- 1855–1859, Washington Irving, The Life of George Washington:
- Arnold, however, was a combustible character.
Antonyms
editDerived terms
editRelated terms
editTranslations
editcapable of burning
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Noun
editcombustible (plural combustibles)
- A material that is capable of burning.
- 1890, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 2, page 248:
- A wheel, wrapt in combustibles, was kindled and rolled down the hill.
Translations
editmaterial capable of burning
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Catalan
editPronunciation
edit- IPA(key): (Central) [kum.busˈtib.blə]
- IPA(key): (Balearic) [kom.busˈtib.blə]
- IPA(key): (Valencia) [kom.busˈti.ble]
Adjective
editcombustible m or f (masculine and feminine plural combustibles)
Noun
editcombustible m (plural combustibles)
Related terms
editFurther reading
edit- “combustible” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “combustible”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “combustible” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “combustible” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
French
editEtymology
editFrom combustion + -ible.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editcombustible m (plural combustibles)
Adjective
editcombustible (plural combustibles)
Further reading
edit- “combustible”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Spanish
editPronunciation
editAdjective
editcombustible m or f (masculine and feminine plural combustibles)
Noun
editcombustible m (plural combustibles)
Derived terms
editRelated terms
editFurther reading
edit- “combustible”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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