inflammable
adjective /ɪnˈflæməbl/
/ɪnˈflæməbl/
(especially British English) (also flammable British and North American English)
- that can burn easily
- inflammable material
- These gases are highly inflammable.
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Word Originearly 17th cent.: from French, or from Latin inflammare, from in- ‘into’ + flamma ‘flame’.