explosive

Able to, or likely to, explode.

Adjective

Able to, or likely to, explode.
- an explosive device
Antonyms: implosive inert nonflammable

Coordinate Terms: incendiary flammable
Having the character of an explosion.
- an explosive fire
1. (cellular automata) Of a specific cellular automaton rule, tending to exhibit infinite and unpredictable growth when starting from finite random patterns.
  - Notes: A rule set that (very probably) results in explosive growth; certainly in area if not population. - 1992 June 2, Dave Boll, “Variations on Conway's LIFE”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet):
  - For example, putting a 1 at (0: 1,1) will cause explosive growth in all directions, putting a 1 at (0: 0,2A) will cause pairs of diagonal cells in a 2x2 square to alternate on and off, putting a 1 at (1: 4,4) will cause...
  - If the rule is further chosen so that active cells can (and must) expand on an inactive background but inactive cells can't do so on an active background (or vice versa), then non-explosive growth becomes possible. -...
Rapidly accelerating.
- Near-synonym: plyometric
- explosive movements
Synonyms: plyometric
Shocking; startling.
- an explosive accusation
Easily driven to anger, usually with reference to a person.
- He has an explosive personality.
Synonym of plosive.
- the explosive consonants
Synonyms: plosive

From Latin explōs-, stem of the perfect passive participle of explōdō + the suffix -ive.

Any explosive substance.
A plosive.
- The words of these songs were either without meaning, or derived from an idiom with which Watt, a very fair linguist, had no acquaintance. The open a sound was predominant, and the explosives k and g. - 1953, Samuel...