 4 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
combustible
adjective: capable of igniting and burning [ant: {noncombustible}]
noun: a substance that can be burned to provide heat or power
[syn: {combustible material}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Combustible \Com*bus"ti*ble\, noun
A substance that may be set on fire, or which is liable to
take fire and burn.
All such combustibles as are cheap enough for common
use go under the name of fuel. --Ure.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Combustible \Com*bus"ti*ble\, adjective [Cf. F. combustible.]
1. Capable of taking fire and burning; apt to catch fire;
inflammable.
Sin is to the soul like fire to combustible matter.
--South.
2. Easily kindled or excited; quick; fiery; irascible.
Arnold was a combustible character. --W. Irving.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
55 Moby Thesaurus words for "combustible":
accendible, alcohol, benzine, briquette, burnable, butane, carbon,
charcoal, coal, coke, dope, ethane, ethanol, explosive, fiery,
fireball, firing, flammable, flammable material, fuel,
fuel additive, fuel dope, gas, gas carbon, gasoline, hasty,
heptane, hexane, hot, hot-tempered, hotheaded, inflammable,
inflammable material, isooctane, jet fuel, kerosene, methane,
methanol, natural gas, octane, oil, paraffin, passionate, peat,
pentane, peppery, propane, propellant, quick, quick-tempered,
rocket fuel, short-tempered, spunky, turf, volcanic
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