incendiary
adjective
[ ɪnˈsɛndɪəri ]
• (of a device or attack) designed to cause fires.
• "incendiary bombs"
• tending to stir up conflict.
• "incendiary rhetoric"
Similar:
inflammatory,
rabble-rousing,
provocative,
agitational,
seditious,
subversive,
revolutionary,
insurrectionary,
insurrectionist,
arousing,
stirring,
contentious,
controversial,
incendiary
noun
• an incendiary bomb or device.
• "the Holy City was blasted by incendiaries"
• a person who starts fires.
• "he was an English incendiary, responsible for the burning of three French battleships"
Origin:
late Middle English: from Latin incendiarius, from incendium ‘conflagration’, from incendere ‘set fire to’.
