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explosive (adj.)
1660s, "tending to explode," from Latin
explos-
, past participle stem of
explodere
"drive out, reject" (see
explosion
) +
-ive
. As a noun, from 1874. Related:
Explosives
(n.);
explosively
;
explosiveness
.
