Thesaurus: inflammatory

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1. a. Tending to inflame, kindle, or irritate.
2. a. Tending to excite anger, animosity, tumult, or sedition; seditious; as, inflammatory libels, writings, speeches, or publications.
3. a. Accompanied with, or tending to cause, preternatural heat and excitement of arterial action; as, an inflammatory disease.
4. adj. characterized or caused by inflammation
5. adj. arousing to action or rebellion
6. 1. Tending to inflame, kindle, or irritate. 2. Tending to excite anger, animosity, tumult, or sedition; seditious; as, inflammatory libels, writings, speeches, or publications. Burke. 3. (Med.) Accompanied with, or tending to cause, preternatural heat and excitement of arterial action; as, an inflammatory disease. Inflammatory crust. (Med.) Same as Buffy coat, under Buffy. -- Inflammatory fever, a variety of fever due to inflammation.
7. Accompanied with, or tending to cause, preternatural heat andexcitement of arterial action; as, an inflammatory disease.Inflammatory crust. (Med.) Same as Buffy coat, under Buffy.-- Inflammatory fever, a variety of fever due to inflammation.
8. j:100 s. characterized or caused by inflammation