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発音

• (weak vowel distinction) IPA: /kəmˈbʌstɪbəl/, [kəɱˈbʌstʰɪbəl] ~ [kəɱˈbʌstʰɪbl̩]
• (weak vowel merger) IPA: /kəmˈbʌstəbəl/, [kəɱˈbʌstʰəbəl] ~ [kəɱˈbʌstʰəbl̩]
• ハイフネーション: com‧bus‧ti‧ble

形容詞

combustible (comparative more combustible, superlative most combustible)

1. 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   • 2023 March 22, “Network News: Class 175s withdrawn for safety checks after fires”, in RAIL, number 979, page 13: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.

2. (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.

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名詞

combustible (plural combustibles)

1. 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.

2. (tobacco industry) A cigarette or a similar product intended for smoking, as opposed to an electronic cigarette.
   • 2025 June 14, “Big Tobacco stock rally reveals smokeless future is still a long way off”, in FT Weekend (Lex. section), London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 16:

     In total three-quarters of the western Big Tobacco giants' sales last year came from so-called combustibles as vaping sales are plateauing.