inflammatory

Speech parts

1. inflammatory - Noun

2. inflammatory - Adjective

3. inflammatory - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Tending to inflame, kindle, or irritate.

Tending to excite anger, animosity, tumult, or sedition; seditious; as, inflammatory libels, writings, speeches, or publications.

Accompanied with, or tending to cause, preternatural heat and excitement of arterial action; as, an inflammatory disease.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

incendiary seditious rabble-rousing incitive instigative galvanic controversial offensive revolutionary aggressive explosive volatile infectious passionate contentious
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Antonyms

pacific central diplomatic pleasing agreeable apologetic
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Phrases with the word

anti-inflammatory hormone inflammatory response joint inflammatory inflammatory joint disease inflammatory rheumatism inflammatory reaction

Examples

Religion is the most inflammatory enemy-labelling device in history. Richard Dawkins

A lot of Democrats are not that upset with Howard Dean. Howard Dean gets out here and he says these inflammatory things, and he doesn't apologize. He doesn't back down a little bit. Gwen Ifill

I'm still not comfortable recommending that people eat saturated fat with abandon, but it's clear to me that sugar, flour and oxidized seed oils create inflammatory effects in the body that almost certainly bear most of the responsibility for elevating heart disease risk. Andrew Weil

The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It's inflammatory. Tennessee Williams

In my own case, the most inflammatory statements I have ever made are ones that I have written and remain willing to defend. Sam Harris

The science of morality is about maximizing psychological and social health. It's really no more inflammatory than that. Sam Harris

Close letter words and terms

inflammatome inflammatorily inflammatoriness inflammatory bowel disease inflammatory cardiomyopathy inflammatory condition