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What is the adjective for exploding?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb explode which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

explosive
  1. With the capability to, or likely to, explode.
  2. Having the character of an explosion.
  3. (slang) Easily driven to anger, usually with reference to a person.
  4. Synonyms:
      5. combustible, incendiary, inflammable, detonative, flammable, volatile, eruptive, fulminant, detonating, fulminating, unstable, ignitable, burnable, combustive, ignitible, vaporous, fiery, combusting, kindling, labile, vaporescent, evaporative, touchy, fire-producing, fire-raising, violent, stormy, fierce, turbulent, tempestuous, rough, furious, tumultuous, ferocious, rabid, convulsive, hot, volcanic, wild, cyclonic, paroxysmal, intense, vehement, frenzied, impetuous, forceful, raging, unpredictable … more
  5. Examples:
      6. “Dr. Stanley Goodspeed could not help but feel incredibly nervous and tense as he handled the highly explosive material.”
      “It's a complicated case, marred by a disputed confession, a paucity of witnesses, and the sudden, explosive nature of the incident itself.”
      “He knows very well that one of his besetting sins is that inflammatory, explosive temper of his.”
explodey
  1. (slang) Explosive; tending to explode.
explosionlike
  1. Resembling or characteristic of an explosion.
explosiony
  1. (colloquial) Full of explosions.
explodable
  1. That can be exploded.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. live, active, explosive, loaded, charged, primed, unexploded, unstable, volatile
explosible
  1. explosive
exploded
  1. simple past tense and past participle of explode
  2. Synonyms:
      3. burst, brast, bursten, blew, blown, popped, crumped, shattered, smashed, demolished, erupted, ruptured, split, boomed, cracked, fractured, blew up, blown up, went off, gone off, went bang, gone bang, burst apart, flew apart, flown apart, burst out, flew into pieces, flown into pieces, let go, detonated, blasted, banged, mushroomed, punctured, ignited, fulminated, destroyed, dynamited, burst open, set off, went boom, gone boom, discharged, combusted, rumbled, flattened, bombed, broke, brake, broken … more
exploding
  1. present participle of explode
  2. Synonyms:
      3. bursting, blowing, popping, crumping, shattering, smashing, demolishing, erupting, rupturing, splitting, booming, cracking, fracturing, blowing up, going off, going bang, bursting apart, flying apart, bursting out, flying into pieces, letting go, detonating, blasting, banging, mushrooming, going boom, puncturing, igniting, breaking, fulminating, destroying, dynamiting, blowing out, flying open, going off with a bang, combusting, disintegrating, discharging, snapping, wrecking, rumbling, going up, flashing, shooting off, va-vooming, setting off, flattening, bombing, busting open, breaking open … more
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