Inflammatory

a.	1.	Tending to inflame, kindle, or irritate.
	2.	Tending to excite anger, animosity, tumult, or sedition; seditious; as, inflammatory libels, writings, speeches, or publications.
	3.	(Med.) Accompanied with, or tending to cause, preternatural heat and excitement of arterial action; as, an inflammatory disease. Inflammatory crust (Med.) Same as Buffy coat, under Buffy. Inflammatory fever a variety of fever due to inflammation.

Adj.	1.	inflammatory - characterized or caused by inflammation; "an inflammatory process"; "an inflammatory response"
	2.	inflammatory - arousing to action or rebellion Synonyms: incitive, instigative, rabble-rousing, seditious, incendiary

agitating, agitational, agitative, breathtaking, charged, cliff-hanging, disquieting, distracting, disturbing, electric, enkindling, exciting, exhilarating, explosive, fervent, fervid, fiery, fomenting, frantic, frenzied, galvanic, heady, heart-expanding, heart-stirring, heart-swelling, heart-thrilling, impressive, incendiary, incentive, incitive, inflaming, inflammative, instigative, insurgent, intoxicating, jarring, jolting, kindling, lighting, maddening, mind-blowing, moving, mutinous, overcoming, overmastering, overpowering, overwhelming, passionate, perturbing, piquant, provocative, provoking, rabble-rousing, rabid, ravishing, rebellious, revolutionary, riotous, rousing, seditionary, seditious, soul-stirring, spirit-stirring, stimulating, stimulative, stirring, striking, suspenseful, suspensive, tantalizing, telling, thrilling, thrilly, traitorous, treacherous, troubling, unsettling, upsetting

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