inflammatory
Designed to enrage
Inflammatory describes something that provokes strong emotion, especially anger or outrage: inflammatory rhetoric, inflammatory comments.
Politicians and media figures are often accused of inflammatory speech when they stir up hostility.
In medicine, inflammatory refers to inflammation—the body's response to injury or infection: inflammatory bowel disease, anti-inflammatory drugs.
Causing or designed for burning
- provocativeMeant to provoke response
- divisiveCausing sharp disagreement
- polarizingCausing sharp division
- contentiousInclined toward disagreement
sensational · rabble-rousing · demagogic · firebrand · agitating · inciting · polemical · vitriolic
incendiary
Causing or designed for burning
- provocativeMeant to provoke response
- divisiveCausing sharp disagreement
- polarizingCausing sharp division
contentious · sensational · rabble-rousing · demagogic · firebrand · agitating · inciting · polemical · vitriolic · venomous
cytokines
Immune signaling proteins
- immuneProtected from harm
- infectionPathogen invasion causing illness
- autoimmuneBody attacks itself
arthritis · histamine · interleukin · edema · swelling · redness · fever · chronic · acute · sepsis
outrage
Fierce moral indignation
- furyIntense violent anger
- rageIntense, violent anger
- indignationAnger from mistreatment
resentment · hostility · anger · uproar · backlash · furor · outcry · tumult · agitation · seething
- emotional rhetoricpathos, emotional appeal, appeals to emotion, loaded language, loaded words
- tissuesadipose, neural tissue, cardiac tissue, fibrous tissue, bone
- medical termsdiagnosis, disorder, surgery, disease, illness
- medical adjectivessurgical, cardiac, orthopedic, malignant, respiratory
- medical descriptorsacute, chronic, mild, moderate, severe
- propagandapropaganda, brainwashing, disinformation, misinformation, indoctrination
inflammatorycalming
Inducing a settled state
soothing · pacifying · mollifying · placating · reassuring
inflammatoryconciliatory
Meant to placate
diplomatic · pacific · reconciling · noninflammatory · peaceable
inflammatoryanti-inflammatory
Inflammation-reducing agent
noninflammatory · healthy · soothing · normal · healing
- anti-inflammatory effectsReduction of tissue inflammation
- inflammatory diseasesIllnesses causing tissue irritation
- inflammatory rhetoric
- non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugsAnalgesics blocking prostaglandin synthesis
- anti-inflammatory propertiesAbility to reduce swelling
- inflammatory speechRhetoric meant to provoke anger