Usually means: Substance that rapidly releases energy.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. explosive: Merriam-Webster
  2. explosive: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. explosive: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. explosive: Collins English Dictionary
  5. explosive: Vocabulary.com
  6. Explosive, explosive: Wordnik
  7. explosive: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. explosive: Wiktionary
  9. explosive: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. explosive: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. explosive: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Explosive, explosive: Dictionary.com
  13. explosive: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Explosive, The Explosive: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Explosive: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. explosive: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. explosive: Rhymezone
  18. explosive: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. explosive: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. explosive: FreeDictionary.org
  21. explosive: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. explosive: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. explosive: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Epicurus.com Cheese Glossary (No longer online)

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. explosive: Legal dictionary
  3. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. explosive: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. explosive: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Chemistry Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Explosive: Material Safety Data Sheets HyperGlossary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Explosive: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Coal Mining Terms (No longer online)
  2. Explosives (No longer online)

(Note: See explosively as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Able to, or likely to, explode.
adjective:  Having the character of an explosion.
adjective:  (cellular automata) Of a specific cellular automaton rule, tending to exhibit infinite and unpredictable growth when starting from finite random patterns.
adjective:  (figurative) Rapidly accelerating.
adjective:  (figurative) Shocking; startling.
adjective:  (slang) Easily driven to anger, usually with reference to a person.
adjective:  (phonetics, archaic) Synonym of plosive
noun:  Any explosive substance.
noun:  (linguistics, dated) A plosive.

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