inflammable
inflammable
adjective
inflammability
noun
inflammableness
noun
inflammably
adverb
语源
adjective
- easily set on fire
易燃的
inflammable materials.
易燃材料。
■(figurative)likely to provoke strong feelings
(喻)易激动的；易激怒的
the most inflammable issue in US politics today.
当前美国政治中最具煽动性的问题。
- (一般作 inflammables)a substance which is easily set on fire
易燃物
inflammability
noun
inflammableness
noun
inflammably
adverb
语源
- early 17th cent.: from French, or from Latin inflammare (see inflame)
- The words inflammable and flammable both have the same meaning ‘easily set on fire’. This might seem surprising, given that the prefix in- normally has the function of negation, as in words like indirect and insufficient. It might be expected, therefore, that inflammable would mean the opposite of flammable, i.e. ‘not easily set on fire’. In fact, inflammable is formed using a different Latin prefix in-, which has the meaning ‘into’ and here has the effect of intensifying the meaning of the word in English. The opposite of inflammable and flammable is either non-inflammable or non-flammable
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