dynamite

Meanings

Noun

• A class of explosives made from nitroglycerine in an absorbent medium such as kieselguhr, used in mining and blasting; invented by Alfred Nobel in 1867.
• A stick of trinitrotoluene (TNT)
• Anything exceptionally dangerous, exciting or wonderful.

Verb

• To blow up with dynamite or other high explosive.
• to dismantle or destroy

Related

Similar words

• nitro

Origin

• Coined by Nobel, the inventor. Ultimately from Ancient Greek δύναμις ("power") -ite, possibly under the influence of dynamo or dynamic.