explosive

Able to, or likely to, explode.

• an explosive device

Having the character of an explosion.

• an explosive fire

Having the character of an explosion.; Of a specific cellular automaton rule, tending to exhibit infinite and unpredictable growth when starting from finite random patterns.

• Notes: A rule set that (very probably) results in explosive growth; certainly in area if not population.
• If the rule is further chosen so that active cells can (and must) expand on an inactive background but inactive cells can't do so on an active background (or vice versa), then non-explosive growth becomes possible.

Rapidly accelerating.figuratively

• Near-synonym: plyometric
• explosive movements

Shocking; startling.figuratively

• an explosive accusation

Easily driven to anger, usually with reference to a person.slang

• He has an explosive personality.

Synonym of plosive.archaic

• the explosive consonants

Any explosive substance.

A plosive.dated

• The words of these songs were either without meaning, or derived from an idiom with which Watt, a very fair linguist, had no acquaintance. The open a sound was predominant, and the explosives k and g.