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inflammable:

1 : flammable
2 : easily inflamed, excited, or angered

how to use in casual conversation:

"inflammable means flammable? what a country!" - Dr. Nick
"watch out - that acetonitrile is inflammable"
"that dude makes me inflammable. i just want to slap that grin right off his face"

not to be confused with:

flammable

how it makes me feel:

quite frankly i'm a little miffed. i went to dictionary.com and saw that their word of the day was abecedarian. freaking a! great word, tons of potential for usage... but i thought i'd take a look at merriam-webster just to see what was going on with them. what do i get? INFLAMMABLE?!?!?! you've got to be kidding me.if you ask me, this WOTD belongs in the kids section. yes, inflammable means flammable. yes, it's counter-intuitive. yes, it's fun thing to learn...in EIGTHTH GRADE! MW has really been off their game recently. you can't just grab any old word and have it be a WOTD. a WOTD needs to have gumption. inflammable has not one gram of gumption.