combustible material

1. 1.

   a substance that can be burned to provide heat or power

   Synonymscombustible

   Broaderfuel

Questions about combustible material

What does combustible material mean?

combustible material means "a substance that can be burned to provide heat or power".

What is another word for combustible material?

Close synonyms include combustible. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is combustible material a common word?

combustible material is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.