inflammatory

inflammatory
    adj 1: characterized or caused by inflammation; "an inflammatory
           process"; "an inflammatory response"
    2: arousing to action or rebellion [syn: {incendiary},
       {incitive}, {inflammatory}, {instigative}, {rabble-rousing},
       {seditious}]
    

Inflammatory \In*flam"ma*to*ry\, a. [Cf. F. inflammatoire.]
   1. Tending to inflame, kindle, or irritate.
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   2. Tending to excite anger, animosity, tumult, or sedition;
      seditious; as, inflammatory libels, writings, speeches, or
      publications. --Burke.
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   3. (Med.) Accompanied with, or tending to cause,
      preternatural heat and excitement of arterial action; as,
      an inflammatory disease.
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   {Inflammatory crust}. (Med.) Same as {Buffy coat}, under
      {Buffy}.

   {Inflammatory fever}, a variety of fever due to inflammation.
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80 Moby Thesaurus words for "inflammatory":
      agitating, agitational, agitative, breathtaking, charged,
      cliff-hanging, disquieting, distracting, disturbing, electric,
      enkindling, exciting, exhilarating, explosive, fervent, fervid,
      fiery, fomenting, frantic, frenzied, galvanic, heady,
      heart-expanding, heart-stirring, heart-swelling, heart-thrilling,
      impressive, incendiary, incentive, inciting, incitive, inflaming,
      inflammative, instigating, instigative, insurgent, intoxicating,
      jarring, jolting, kindling, lighting, maddening, mind-blowing,
      moving, mutinous, overcoming, overmastering, overpowering,
      overwhelming, passionate, perturbing, piquant, provocative,
      provoking, rabble-rousing, rabid, ravishing, rebellious,
      revolutionary, riotous, rousing, seditionary, seditious,
      soul-stirring, spirit-stirring, stimulating, stimulative, stirring,
      striking, suspenseful, suspensive, tantalizing, telling, thrilling,
      thrilly, traitorous, treacherous, troubling, unsettling,
      upsetting