explosive

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Able to, or likely to, explode.

   • an explosive device
2. 2

   Having the character of an explosion.

   • an explosive fire
3. 3

   Rapidly accelerating.

   • Near-synonym: plyometric
   • explosive movements
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   1. 4

      Shocking

      Shocking; startling.

      • an explosive accusation
   2. 5

      Easily driven to anger, usually with reference to a person.

      • He has an explosive personality.
   3. 6

      Synonym of plosive.

      • the explosive consonants
   4. 7

      Any explosive substance.

   5. 8

      A plosive.

      • The words of these songs were either without meaning, or derived from an idiom with which Watt, a very fair linguist, had no acquaintance. The open a sound was predominant, and the explosives k and g.

The neighborhood

• neighborexplode