Synonyms:
explosive
Meaning: serving to explode or characterized by explosion or sudden outburst; "an explosive device"; "explosive gas"; "explosive force"; "explosive violence"; "an explosive temper"
Synonyms:
explosive, volatile
Meaning: liable to lead to sudden change or violence; "an explosive issue"; "a volatile situation with troops and rioters eager for a confrontation"
noun
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
explosive
Meaning: a chemical substance that undergoes a rapid chemical change (with the production of gas) on being heated or struck
Usage examples
'A new explosive?' she interrupted.
He stepped as if he expected to tread upon some explosive thing.
The terrific power of the explosive was equal to the maniac determination of the fire.
The older man's voice seemed far away, as it said, 'Each new explosive deals a blow at war,--war!'
The explosive electric bullet went true to its mark, and the great animal turned over in a death struggle.
The explosive materials are everywhere in parcels; but there neither are, nor can be supplied the indispensable connecting trains.
But I fired pointblank with my hand-gun, pressing the button as fast as I could and aiming at their feet to make sure my explosive rockets would make contact and do their work.
He had succeeded; he had created a thing new to the world, an explosive which would be more powerful than the deadliest in existence; he had perfected the work of a week's exquisite danger; he had won.
Hence, he believed that only the minimum of work should be done with the costly explosive; and, therefore, planned to use dynamite merely to dislodge great masses of rock, and depended upon the steam-shovel, operated by coal under the boiler, to displace, handle, and remove the rock in detail.
Therefore a time would come when the elastic and explosive forces of the imprisoned gases would upheave this ponderous cover and drive out for themselves openings through tall chimneys. Hence then the volcano would distend and lift up the crust, and then burst through a crater suddenly formed at the summit or thinnest part of the volcano.