inflammatory
/in'flæmətəri/
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Definition
- Adjective:
- Provoking strong emotion, anger, or agitation: Describes language, actions, or behavior that is intended to arouse strong feelings, often of anger or rebellion, and that may lead to unrest or conflict.
- Relating to or causing inflammation: In medical contexts, describes a condition, process, or substance that causes or is characterized by physical inflammation, a biological response to harmful stimuli.
Examples of Usage
- Provocative sense:
- The politician's inflammatory speech incited violence among the crowd.
- The article was criticized for its inflammatory rhetoric about the opposing group.
- Medical sense:
- The doctor prescribed medication to reduce the inflammatory response in her joints.
- Redness and swelling are classic inflammatory symptoms.
Advanced Usage
- "Inflammatory remarks/statements/rhetoric": Language specifically designed to provoke anger or public disturbance.
- The journalist was fired for making a series of inflammatory remarks on social media.
- "Inflammatory disease/condition": A medical disorder characterized by chronic inflammation.
- Rheumatoid arthritis is a common inflammatory disease.
Variants and Related Words
- Inflame (verb): To provoke or intensify strong feelings; or to cause physical inflammation.
- His comments served only to inflame the situation.
- The chemical can inflame the skin on contact.
- Inflammation (noun): The medical condition itself; or a state of excitement or disturbance.
- The inflammation in his ankle made it difficult to walk.
- The leader's arrest caused widespread inflammation among his supporters.
- Anti-inflammatory (adjective/noun): Acting to reduce inflammation; a substance that reduces inflammation.
- Ibuprofen is an anti-inflammatory drug.
- She took an anti-inflammatory for her back pain.
Synonyms
- Provocative: Causing annoyance, anger, or another strong reaction, especially deliberately.
- Incendiary: Tending to stir up conflict; designed to cause fires or inflammation.
- Seditious: Inciting resistance to or rebellion against lawful authority.
Related Phrases
- Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD): A medical term for disorders involving chronic inflammation of the digestive tract.
- Crohn's disease is a type of inflammatory bowel disease.
Adjective
- arousing to action or rebellion
- characterized or caused by inflammation
- an inflammatory process
- an inflammatory response