Checking saved dictionary data and trusted language sources. This will stop automatically if a source does not respond.
Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
Of or relating to arson (the crime of deliberately starting a fire with intent to cause damage)..
1978, Jan Morris, Farewell the Trumpets, New York and London: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Part 2, Chapter 18, p. 393, In Cyprus he must deal with Greeks and Turks whose methods of debate were murderous or arsonical.
He cleared out the coals from under the staircase, built a neat fire of firewood and paper there, he splashed about paraffine and arranged the lamps and can even as he had designed, and made a fine inflammable pile of things in the little parlour behind the shop. “Looks pretty arsonical,” he said as he surveyed it all.
Use arsonical when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Arsonical means Of or relating to arson (the crime of deliberately starting a fire with intent to cause damage)..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
1978, Jan Morris, Farewell the Trumpets, New York and London: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Part 2, Chapter 18, p. 393, In Cyprus he must deal with Greeks and Turks whose methods of debate were murderous or arsonical.
FreeDictionaryAPI.com / Wiktionary · Original source · CC BY-SA 4.0
Dictionary data is provided by FreeDictionaryAPI.com and sourced from Wiktionary under its stated license.