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dynamite

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    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • UK Pronunciation
    • UK IPA
    • \ˈdī-nə-ˌmīt\
    • /ˈdaɪ.nə.maɪt/
    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • \ˈdī-nə-ˌmīt\

Definitions of dynamite word

  • noun dynamite A high explosive consisting of nitroglycerine mixed with an absorbent material and typically molded into sticks. 1
  • noun dynamite explosive 1
  • transitive verb dynamite blast with explosives 1
  • adjective dynamite idea, performance: brilliant, stunning 1
  • uncountable noun dynamite Dynamite is a type of explosive that contains nitroglycerin. 0
  • verb dynamite If someone dynamites something, they blow it up by using dynamite. 0

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Parts of speech for Dynamite

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation

dynamite popularity

A pretty common term. Usually people know it’s meaning, but prefer to use a more spread out synonym. About 55% of English native speakers know the meaning and use word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".

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Synonyms for dynamite

verb dynamite

  • blow up — If someone blows something up or if it blows up, it is destroyed by an explosion.
  • blast — A blast is a big explosion, especially one caused by a bomb.
  • detonate — If someone detonates a device such as a bomb, or if it detonates, it explodes.
  • destroy — To destroy something means to cause so much damage to it that it is completely ruined or does not exist any more.
  • wreck — any building, structure, or thing reduced to a state of ruin.

noun dynamite

  • nitroglycerin — a colorless, thick, oily, flammable, highly explosive, slightly water-soluble liquid, C 3 H 5 N 3 O 9 , prepared from glycerol with nitric and sulfuric acids: used chiefly as a constituent of dynamite and other explosives, in rocket propellants, and in medicine as a vasodilator in the treatment of angina pectoris.
  • tnt — trinitrotoluene: explosive substance
  • gelignite — gelatin dynamite.
  • trinitrotoluene — TNT.

adjective dynamite

  • striking — Military. describing a fighter-bomber aircraft designed to carry large payloads at high speeds and low altitudes and also to engage in air-to-air combat.
  • stupendous — causing amazement; astounding; marvelous: stupendous news.
  • capable — If a person or thing is capable of doing something, they have the ability to do it.
  • mondo — a question to a student for which an immediate answer is demanded, the spontaneity of which is often illuminating.
  • considerable — Considerable means great in amount or degree.

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