flammable and inflammable
Flammable means able to be set aflame
Inflammable means able to be set aflame, easily excited or disturbed
According to the Macquarie Dictionary traditionally 'inflammable' meant likely to burn easily, but to avoid a false analogy with other words such as 'inactive' in which the 'in' means 'not', 'flammable' was adopted as the standard warning in labelling goods. The opposite is 'nonflammable'.
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