incombustible

incombustible

English

WOTD – 23 August 2006

Etymology

From in- +‎ combust +‎ -ible.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌɪŋkəmˈbʌstɪbəl/

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Adjective

incombustible (comparative more incombustible, superlative most incombustible)

1. Not capable of catching fire and burning; not flammable.
   • 1921, Charles Kenneth Leith, The Economic Aspect of Geology, page 124:

     The ash represents the more incombustible mineral matter, usually of the nature of clay or slate.

Antonyms

• (not flammable): combustible, flammable (US), inflammable (UK)

Translations

not flammable

Bulgarian: негорим (negorim) Catalan: incombustible Czech: nehořlavý German: unbrennbar (de), unverbrennbar, feuersicher Greek: άκαυστος (el) (ákafstos) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: neşewit, nesoj, agirnegir (ku) Spanish: incombustible (es) Swedish: obrännbar

Noun

incombustible (plural incombustibles)

1. Any substance that is not flammable.

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Catalan

Etymology

From Latin incombustibilis.

Adjective

incombustible (masculine and feminine plural incombustibles)

1. Not capable of catching fire and burning; not flammable.

   Antonym: combustible

Further reading

• “incombustible” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “incombustible”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
• “incombustible” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “incombustible” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

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French

Adjective

incombustible (plural incombustibles)

1. incombustible

Further reading

• “incombustible”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Spanish

Etymology

From Latin incombustibĭle.

Adjective

incombustible (plural incombustibles)

1. not capable of catching fire and burning; not flammable

   Antonym: combustible

Further reading

• “incombustible”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014