incendiary

1. 1.

   involving deliberate burning of property

   “an incendiary fire”
2. 2.

   arousing to action or rebellion

   Synonymsincitiveinflammatoryinstigativerabble-rousingseditious

   Similarprovocative
3. 3.

   capable of catching fire spontaneously or causing fires or burning readily

   “an incendiary agent”

   “incendiary bombs”

   Similarcombustible

1. 1.

   a criminal who illegally sets fire to property

   Synonymsarsonistfirebug

   Broadercriminal

   Narrowerbarnburner
2. 2.

   a bomb that is designed to start fires; is most effective against flammable targets (such as fuel)

   Synonymsincendiary bombfirebomb

   Broaderbomb

Other forms of incendiary

plural

incendiaries·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about incendiary

What does incendiary mean?

incendiary means "involving deliberate burning of property". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in incendiary?

incendiary has 5 syllables: in-cen-di-a-ry. The stress falls on "cen". In IPA it is /ˌɪnˈsɛndiɛɹi/.

What is another word for incendiary?

Close synonyms include incitive, inflammatory, instigative, rabble-rousing, seditious. 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 incendiary a common word?

incendiary is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.