Definitions for incendiary

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incendiary in·cen·di·ar·y

Spelling: [in-sen-dee-er-ee]

IPA: /ɪnˈsɛn diˌɛr i/

Incendiary is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 442 anagrams from letters in incendiary (acdeiinnry).

Definitions for incendiary

noun

1. a person who deliberately sets fire to buildings or other property, as an arsonist.
2. Military. a shell, bomb, or grenade containing napalm, thermite, or some other substance that burns with an intense heat.
3. a person who stirs up strife, sedition, etc.; an agitator.

adjective

1. used or adapted for setting property on fire:
2. of or relating to the criminal setting on fire of property.
3. tending to arouse strife, sedition, etc.; inflammatory:
4. tending to inflame the senses:

Origin of incendiary

1600-10; Latin incendiārius, equivalent to incendi(um) a fire (incend(ere) to kindle (in- in-² + -cendere, transitive v. from base of candēre to shine, be ho

Examples for incendiary

Does Israel offer up any facts to fortify his incendiary charge?

And social media in general has been blamed for making an incendiary situation in the Middle East even more tense.

Now 84, Rice joined the order when she was a teenager and has been an incendiary member of the social justice movement ever since.

Certainly you are an incendiary: you have set fire to the peace of faithful souls.

He was an incendiary, anti-Semitic ideologue whose silencing poses no threat to real freedom of speech.

The Wolf of Wall Street is a dangerous, incendiary work of art.

Stanley, wheeling like a flash, gave chase to the incendiary.

But the incendiary had taken care to do his work so well that it was already impossible.

Obscurantism is better than the light of incendiary torches.

That is why, to save my life, I had to be an incendiary at times, and at others a footpad.