inflammable

Meanings

Adjective

• Capable of burning; easily set on fire.
• Easily excited; set off by the slightest excuse; easily enraged or inflamed.
• Incapable of burning; not easily set on fire.

Noun

• Any inflammable substance.

Origin

• From Middle French inflammable, from Medieval Latin īnflammābilis, from Latin inflammo, from in + flamma.