The Free Dictionary advises using only flammable to give warnings: Usage Note: Historically, flammable and inflammable mean the same thing. However, the presence of the prefix in- has misled many …

2015年2月28日 · Inflammable, derived from the verb inflame, is the original word. But because the first syllable is easily misinterpreted as the common negative prefix in- (as in, for example, inescapable, …

2018年7月12日 · The etymology of inflammable is from the French root inflammable, in turn from the Latin - related to the verb inflame. Etymology: representing Latin type *inflammābilis , < inflammāre …

Why are not infamous and inflammable the opposite of famous and flammable, like incomplete, inactivity, inappropriate and so on?

Moi aussi. I see some irony in the fact that the NFPA, which is widely credited with having spearheaded the movement to popularize flammable in the 1920s (see the entry for flammable/inflammable in …

The words flammable and inflammable mean the same thing, but (to someone unfamiliar with their meaning) appear to be opposites (because of the &quot;in&quot; prefix). Is there a name for such …

2018年3月9日 · Cleave means tear apart as well as bind together. The world inflammable can mean combustible or not combustible. There is no "why" to natural languages, or, rather, asking "why" is the …

Somewhat related to this question, I am curious to know what words in English would seem to be opposites at first blush but are in fact synonyms? Immediately I can think of flammable and …

2013年3月29日 · The joke arises from the fact that "inflammable" and "flammable" are synonymous (that is, they have the same meaning.) Normally the prefix "in" makes the root word have the opposite …

2018年7月12日 · @sumelic - Back ca 1960 there was a hubbub in the US shipping and transportation arena because many people took "inflammable" (as used on, eg, tanker trucks) to mean "non …