incendiary

incendiary is a 10-letter English word with 9 senses as noun and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Any person who maliciously sets fire to a building or other valuable or other valuable property. Face value is 16 in Scrabble and 18 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

10 letters · Scrabble 16 · Words With Friends 18 · 9 senses

Definitions

1. noun. Any person who maliciously sets fire to a building or other valuable or other valuable property.
2. noun. A person who excites or inflames factions, and promotes quarrels or sedition; an agitator; an exciter.
3. adjective. Of or pertaining to incendiarism, or the malicious burning of valuable property; as, incendiary material; as incendiary crime.
4. adjective. Tending to excite or inflame factions, sedition, or quarrel; inflammatory; seditious.
5. noun. a bomb that is designed to start fires; is most effective against flammable targets (such as fuel)

   Synonyms: firebomb

6. noun. a criminal who illegally sets fire to property

   Synonyms: arsonist, firebug

7. adjective. capable of catching fire spontaneously or causing fires or burning readily

   "an incendiary agent"

   "incendiary bombs"

8. adjective. arousing to action or rebellion

   Synonyms: incitive, inflammatory, instigative, seditious

9. adjective. involving deliberate burning of property

   "an incendiary fire"

Synonyms

firebomb, arsonist, firebug, incitive, inflammatory, instigative, seditious

Common word forms

incendiaries

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