combustible

From Middle French combustible.

• IPA^(key): /kəmˈbʌstɪbəl/

combustible (comparative more combustible, superlative most combustible)

1. Capable of burning.

   Dumping fertilizer on top of whatever mysterious goop was in the storage tank created a combustible mix which caught fire.

   • 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), 6th edition, London: […] J[ames] Bettenham, for Jonah Bowyer, […], published 1727, OCLC 21766567:

     Sin is to the soul like fire to combustible matter.

2. (figuratively, dated) Easily kindled or excited; quick; fiery; irascible.
   • 1855–1859, Washington Irving, The Life of George Washington:

     Arnold, however, was a combustible character.

   • 2022 October 26, Cade Metz; Adam Satariano; Chang Che, “How Elon Musk Became a Geopolitical Chaos Agent”, in The New York Times‎, ISSN 0362-4331:

     The world’s richest man has inserted himself in some of the world’s most combustible conflicts.

• incombustible

• combust
• combustibility
• combustion

combustible (plural combustibles)

1. A material that is capable of burning.

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /kom.busˈti.blə/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /kum.busˈti.blə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /kom.busˈti.ble/

combustible (masculine and feminine plural combustibles)

1. combustible

combustible m (plural combustibles)

1. combustible, fuel

• combustió

• “combustible” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “combustible”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
• “combustible” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “combustible” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From combustion +‎ -ible.

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃.bys.tibl/

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combustible m (plural combustibles)

1. combustible

combustible (plural combustibles)

1. combustible

• “combustible”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• IPA^(key): /kombusˈtible/ [kõm.busˈt̪i.β̞le]
• Rhymes: -ible
• Syllabification: com‧bus‧ti‧ble

combustible (plural combustibles)

1. combustible

combustible m (plural combustibles)

1. fuel

• agrocombustible
• combustible fósil

• comburente
• combustión

• “combustible”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014