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eruptive
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective eruptive has 3 senses
- eruptive(a = adj.pert) Array - producing or characterized by eruptions; "an eruptive disease"
- eruptive(a = adj.all) igneous - produced by the action of fire or intense heat; "rocks formed by igneous agents"
- eruptive(s = adj.all) Array - actively spewing out lava; "a geyser is an intermittently eruptive hot spring" Derived form verb erupt8
CIDE DICTIONARY
eruptive, a. [Cf. F. éruptif.].
- Breaking out or bursting forth. [1913 Webster]"The sudden glance
Appears far south eruptive through the cloud." [1913 Webster] - Attended with eruption or efflorescence, or producing it; as, an eruptive fever. [1913 Webster]
- Produced by eruption; as, eruptive rocks, such as the igneous or volcanic. [1913 Webster]
eruptive, n.
An eruptive rock. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
eruptive
agitable, bursting, detonating, edgy, emotional, emotionally unstable, excitable, explodable, explosible, explosive, fulminating, high-mettled, high-spirited, high-strung, highly emotional, inflammable, irascible, irritable, mettlesome, nervous, perturbable, prickly, sensitive, skittish, startlish, touchy, volcanic
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