inflammatory B2 Topic:Emotions & Feelings US /ɪnˈflæməˌtoɹi/ UK /ɪnˈflæmət(ə)ɹi/ See IPA manual Freq #30470 Meanings 1 adj Likely to make people very angry or excited. His inflammatory comments started a heated argument online. 2 adj Causing or relating to inflammation in the body. The doctor prescribed an anti-inflammatory medicine for her swollen knee. Thesaurus Synonyms 1 adj · likely to make people very... incendiaryprovocative Word family Derived forms angioinflammatoryanti-inflammatoryantiinflammatoryautoinflammatorycounterinflammatoryfibroinflammatoryhyperinflammatoryhypoinflammatoryimmunoinflammatoryinflammasomeinflammatorilyinflammatoriness Common collocations inflammatory response Adjective + noun Etymology AI details From inflame + -atory. Topics Emotions & Feelings External links Cambridge Dictionary Wiktionary Google Images # inflammatory **Type:** Word **Level:** B2 **Part of speech:** adj **IPA (US):** /ɪnˈflæməˌtoɹi/ **IPA (UK):** /ɪnˈflæmət(ə)ɹi/ **Frequency rank:** 30470 ## Meanings 1. Likely to make people very angry or excited. 2. Causing or relating to inflammation in the body. ## Examples - His inflammatory comments started a heated argument online. - The doctor prescribed an anti-inflammatory medicine for her swollen knee. ## Derived Forms - angioinflammatory - anti-inflammatory - antiinflammatory - autoinflammatory - counterinflammatory - fibroinflammatory - hyperinflammatory - hypoinflammatory - immunoinflammatory - inflammasome - inflammatorily - inflammatoriness ## Etymology From inflame + -atory. ## AI Etymology Inflammatory comes from inflame + -atory. The analysis is mainly morphological: the modern adjectival form is built from the named base and affix. ## Topics - Emotions & Feelings markdown