Incendiary

Definition: Incendiary

Incendiary

Adjective

1. Involving deliberate burning of property; "an incendiary fire".

2. Arousing to action or rebellion.

3. Capable of catching fire spontaneously or causing fires or burning readily; "an incendiary agent"; "incendiary bombs".

Noun

1. A criminal who illegally sets fire to property.

2. A bomb that is designed to start fires.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "incendiary" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references)

Synonyms: Incendiary

Bad Man

Incendiary, arsonist, fire bug.

Calefaction

Match. (fuel); incendiary; petroleuse;

Destruction

Destructive, subversive, ruinous, devastating; incendiary, deletory; destroying; n. suicidal; deadly; (killing).

Evil doer

Firebrand, incendiary, fire bug, pyromaniac; anarchist, communist, terrorist.

Malevolence

Cruel; brutal, brutish; savage, savage as a bear, savage as a tiger; ferine, ferocious; inhuman; barbarous, barbaric, semibarbaric, fell, untamed, tameless, truculent, incendiary; bloodthirsty; (murderous); atrocious; bloodyminded.

Motive

Prompter, tempter; seducer, seductor; instigator, firebrand, incendiary; Siren, Circe; agent provocateur; lobbyist.

Crosswords: Incendiary

Incendiary Blonde (1945)

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Books

• The incendiary fellowship (reference)

• ZINES! Volume One: Incendiary Interviews with Independent Publishers (reference)

• Flame On!: U.S. Incendiary Weapons, 1918-1945 (reference)

• Flames over Tokyo: The U.S. Army Air Forces' Incendiary Campaign Against Japan, 1944-1945 (reference)

• Incendiary Art: The Representation of Fireworks in Early Modern Europe (Bibliographies and Dossiers Series) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Beating the Devil: Incendiary Rants of Alexander (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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In fighting incendiary bombs, the jet is more effective than the spray. Credit: Library of Congress.

Conversion. Toy furniture to dies for incendiary bombs. Dies to destroy the Axis. The owner of this small Midwest factory inspects dies for making incendiary bombs. Note doll's furniture on the wall, the company's previous product. Complete conversion of. Credit: Library of Congress.

Tennessee Valley Authority production. Elemental phosphorus. A large electric phosphate smelting furnace used in the making of elemental phosphorus in a TVA chemical plant in the Muscle Shoals area. The phosphorus, used in the manufacture of incendiary bo. Credit: Library of Congress.

Production. Magnesium. Two men of the plant protection force guard the stacks of vital magnesium produced at Basic Magnesium's giant plant in the southern Nevada desert. This lightest of all metals is used in the making of incendiary bombs, tracer bullets. Credit: Library of Congress.

New Britain, Connecticut. Incendiary bomb casings being made at the Stanley plant. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Civil Liberties

Tanzania

During the year, urban Muslims distributed videotapes of the Mwembechai riots to document perceived human rights abuses; these videotapes were outlawed by the Government for being incendiary. (references)

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Expressions using "incendiary": ammunition with incendiary projectiles ♦ incendiary action ♦ incendiary ammunition ♦ incendiary bomb ♦ incendiary bullet ♦ incendiary device ♦ incendiary material ♦ incendiary matter ♦ incendiary projectile ♦ incendiary rocket ♦ incendiary shell. Additional references.

Beginning with "incendiary": incendiary-cum-explosive.

Albanian

zjarrvënës (arsonist), turbullues (disquieting, perturber, perturbing, seditious, turbulent), nxitës (abetter, abettor, aphrodisiac, cordial, encouraging, excitant, fillip, fire brand, fomenter, hortative, hortatory, impellent, incentive, inciting, inflammatory, instigator, lively, mainspring, piquant, poignant, promoter, provocative, sexy, sponsor, stimulant, stimulating, warmonger), ndezës (igniter, lighter, primer). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مهيج (agitating, exciting, provocative, rousing, tease), ‏متسم بالإحراق عمدا, ‏حارق (burner, burning, fiery, incinerating, incinerator, scorching, searing), ‏تحريض (agitation, incitation, incitement, instigation, sedition, solicitation), ‏الاحراق عمدا, ‏إحراقي, ‏أداة الإحراق. (various references)

Bulgarian 

възпламенителен (fiery, fulminatory), запалително вещество (inflammable), запалителен (combustible), подстрекателски (inflammatory), подстрекател (abettor, actuator, firebrand, inciter, instigator, ringleader, setter-on, stirrer-up), подпалвачески, подпалвач (fire raiser, firebug, igniter). (various references)

Chinese 

纵火. (various references)

Czech

zápalný (combustible, inflammable), pobuřovatel, palièský, žhář, štvavý, štváè. (various references)

Danish

brandbombe (incendiary bomb), brandammunition (ammunition with incendiary projectiles). (various references)

Dutch

brandstichtend. (various references)

Esperanto

incendia. (various references)

Farsi 

اتش زا(agitator=), اتش افروز (Incentive, Tinder). (various references)

Finnish

tuhopolttaja (fire raiser). (various references)

French

incendiaire (inflammatory). (various references)

German

brandstifter (arsonist, arsonists, fire raiser, firebug, incendiaries). (various references)

Greek 

εμπρηστικόσ (inflammatory), εμπρηστικός, εμπρηστήσ (arsonist, fire bug). (various references)

Hebrew 

מבעיר (arsonist, firebug), מצית (firebug, lighter), מסית (agitator, firebrand, inciter, inflammatory, instigator, seditious, trouble maker), גחמני (capricious, whimsical). (various references)

Hungarian

gyújtogató (arsonist, burner, firebug, fire-raiser), bujtogató (factious, mutineer, seductive). (various references)

Indonesian

pembakaran rumah. (various references)

Italian

incendiario (arsonist). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

火付け (arson), 火付 (arson). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ひつけ (arson). (various references)

Norwegian

brannstifter (arsonist), brann-. (various references)

Pig Latin

incendiaryay.(various references)

Polish

bomba zapalająca (incendiary bomb). (various references)

Portuguese

incendiário (fire raiser, firebug). (various references)

Romanian

incendiator (firer), incendiar (inflammatory), revoluţionar (reformer, revolutionary, revolutionist), care va prinde. (various references)

Russian 

зажигательный. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zapaljiv (combustible, excitable, flammable, inflammable), podstrekački, podstrekač (aggressor, fire brand, firebrand, persuader, stirrer-up), palikuća (arsonist, firebug). (various references)

Spanish

incendiario (arsonist, pyromaniac). (various references)

Swedish

mordbrands-, mordbrännare (fire raiser). (various references)

Thai

เกี่ยวกับการวางเพลิง. (various references)

Turkish

yangın bombası (incendiary bomb), yangın çıkaran kimse, yangın çıkaran, tahrik edici (coat-trailing, inflammatory, stimulating, stimulative), kundakçı (arsonist, fire raiser, firebug, goon, saboteur), kışkırtıcı (agitator, coat-trailing, demagog, demagogue, factionist, factious, fomenter, instigating, instigator, irritant, plotter, provocateur, provocative, rabble-rousing, seditious, setter-on, stumper). (various references)

Turkmen 

tutaюdyryjy. (various references)

Ukrainian

запалювальний, підбурювач (abettor, inciter, instigator, machinator, nurser, provoker, suborner), підбурювальний (seditious), палій. (various references)

Vietnamese 

người kích động phong trào chống đối, để đốt cháy cố ý đốt nhà. (various references)

Misspellings

"Incendiary" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: incediary, incendi, incendio, incentiary, incindiary, Ingenierie. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: acridine, crannied.

-3 letters: ardency, cairned, cannery, cannier, cindery, cinerin, cyanide, cyanine, denarii, dineric, indican, narcein, nardine.

-4 letters: cairny, canine, canned, canner, cannie, caried, carney, carnie, cedarn, cinder, craned, cranny, cyanid, cyanin, dancer, denari, denary, dicier, dinner, dynein, encina, endrin, inaner, irenic, nacred, narine, niacin, rained, rancid, yarned.

-5 letters: acidy, acini, acned, acred, acrid, aider.

+1 letter: tyrannicide.

+2 letters: tyrannicides.

+3 letters: indeterminacy.

+4 letters: inconsiderably.

+5 letters: inconsiderately.