English-French translations for incendiary

• bombe incendiaire
• incendiaire
  Cette rhétorique belliqueuse et incendiaire ne peut qu'aggraver les choses. Such bellicose and incendiary rhetoric can only make matters worse.
  Premièrement, la reconnaissance par le Pentagone, il y a quelques heures, de l’utilisation par les forces américaines d’armes incendiaires au phosphore à Falloudja. First, the Pentagon’s acknowledgement a few hours ago that the US used phosphorous incendiary devices in Fallujah.

Definition of incendiary

• Capable of, or used for, or actually causing fire
• Intentionally stirring up strife, riot, rebellion
• Inflammatory, emotionally charged
• Something capable of causing fire, particularly a weapon
• One who maliciously sets fires
• One who excites or inflames factions into quarrels

Examples

• Politics is an incendiary topic; it tends to cause fights to break out
• The military used incendiaries to destroy the building. Fortunately, the fire didnt spread

Related words

• incentive
• incense
• frankincense
• incentivize
• incentivise
• incentivizing
• disincentive
• Vincent
• incensed