# combustible
## English
### Etymology

From Middle French combustible, equivalent to combust +‎ -ible.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kəmˈbʌstɪbəl/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Hyphenation: com‧bust‧i‧ble

### Adjective

combustible (comparative more combustible, superlative most combustible)
* Capable of burning.
    Synonyms: flammable; inflammable (in one of its contranymic senses)
    Antonyms: incombustible, noncombustible; nonflammable, noninflammable, unflammable; inflammable (in one of its contranymic senses), fireproof, refractory
    Hyponym: flammable
    Coordinate terms: fire-resistant, fire-retardant, flame-retardant
    Dumping fertilizer on top of whatever mysterious goop was in the storage tank created a combustible mix which caught fire.
** 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London:Sin is to the soul like fire to combustible matter.
** 2023 March 22, “Network News: Class 175s withdrawn for safety checks after fires”, in RAIL, number 979, page 13:The rest were undergoing special underbody cleaning safety checks at TfW depots, after speculation that the cause of the incidents may have been a build-up of engine oil and combustible material such as fallen leaves and general detritus.
* (figurative, dated) Easily kindled or excited; quick; fiery; irascible.
    Antonyms: incombustible, noncombustible
** 1855–1859, Washington Irving, The Life of George Washington:Arnold, however, was a combustible character.
** 2022 October 26, Cade Metz, Adam Satariano, Chang Che, “How Elon Musk Became a Geopolitical Chaos Agent”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:The world’s richest man has inserted himself in some of the world’s most combustible conflicts.

#### Derived terms

* autocombustible
* combustibleness
* combustibly
* multicombustible
* non-combustible
* noncombustible
* polycombustible
* uncombustible

#### Related terms

* combust
* combustibility
* combustion

#### Translations
### Noun

combustible (plural combustibles)
* A material that is capable of burning.
** 1890, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 2, page 248:A wheel, wrapt in combustibles, was kindled and rolled down the hill.

#### Translations
## Catalan
### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [kum.busˈtib.blə]
* IPA: (Balearic) [kom.busˈtib.blə]
* IPA: (Valencia) [kom.busˈti.ble]

### Adjective

combustible m or f (masculine and feminine plural combustibles)
* combustible

### Noun

combustible m (plural combustibles)
* combustible, fuel

#### Related terms

* combustió

### Further reading

* “combustible” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “combustible”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
* “combustible” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
* “combustible” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

## French
### Etymology

From combustion +‎ -ible.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kɔ̃.bys.tibl/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

combustible m (plural combustibles)
* combustible

### Adjective

combustible (plural combustibles)
* combustible

### Further reading

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

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kombusˈtible/ [kõm.busˈt̪i.β̞le]
* Rhymes: -ible
* Syllabification: com‧bus‧ti‧ble

### Adjective

combustible m or f (masculine and feminine plural combustibles)
* combustible

### Noun

combustible m (plural combustibles)
* fuel

#### Derived terms

* agrocombustible
* combustible fósil
* pila de combustible

#### Related terms

* comburente
* combustión

### Further reading

* “combustible”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10