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Combustible vs Combustibly - What's the difference?

combustible | combustibly |

As an adjective combustible

is capable of burning.

As a noun combustible

is a material that is capable of burning.

As an adverb combustibly is

in a combustible manner.

combustible

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Capable of burning
    • Dumping fertilizer on top of whatever mysterious goop was in the storage tank created a combustible mix which caught on fire.
  • * South
    • Sin is to the soul like fire to combustible matter.
  • (figurative) Easily kindled or excited; quick; fiery; irascible.
  • * Washington Irving
    • Arnold was a combustible character.

    Antonyms

    * incombustible

    Related terms

    * combustibility * combustion

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A material that is capable of burning.

    • combustibly

    English

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • in a combustible manner
  • * {{quote-news, year=2003, date=November 28, author=Lawrence Bommer, title=The Play's the Thing, work=Chicago Reader citation
    • , passage=So it's not surprising that Terry McCabe's theatrically assured, combustibly comic staging is superior to Borealis Theatre's revival two months ago. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1913, author=Owen Johnson, title=Murder in Any Degree, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=All at once holding his sides, he found a little breath and cried combustibly : "A can-can !" }}