Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

incensive

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: in-cen-sive
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

3

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Tending to excite, provoke or stir up emotions; inflammatory.

Example Sentences

"incensive aspects of the soul"
"To be extremely hated and inhumanly persecuted , without any fault committed or just occasion offered, is greatly incensive of human passion"

Etymology

From incense + -ive.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: incense

Inflected Forms

more incensive (comparative) most incensive (superlative)

Questions

What does incensive mean?: Tending to excite, provoke or stir up emotions; inflammatory.
Where does incensive come from?: From incense + -ive.

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