What is another word for eruptive?

Pronunciation: [ɪɹˈʌptɪv] (IPA)

Eruptive is a word that describes a sudden and violent outburst or explosion. Some synonyms for eruptive include explosive, tumultuous, eruption, outbreak, and discharge. These words all convey the idea of something happening suddenly and with great force. Other words that could be used instead of eruptive include violent, sudden, intense, and explosive. When describing a volcanic eruption, some synonyms that could be used instead of eruptive include volcanic, volcanic activity, eruption, and lava flow. It can be helpful to use synonyms in writing to avoid repetition and add variety to one's vocabulary.

What are the hypernyms for Eruptive?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

What are the opposite words for eruptive?

Eruptive refers to a sudden and violent outburst or explosion. Antonyms for the word eruptive would be calm, peaceful, tranquil, serene or placid. These words represent the opposite of eruptive, which is characterized by turbulence and unrest. A calm environment or person is one that is composed and tranquil, free from agitation or disturbance. Peaceful signifies a state of quietness, without conflicts or stress. Tranquil implies a state of tranquility and stillness. Serene suggests a state of peace and tranquility that is undisturbed by external factors. Placid describes a state of peacefulness and quietness, often associated with a body of water.

What are the antonyms for Eruptive?

Usage examples for Eruptive

An eruptive, agonized bark from the hall sent the girl thither at a bound, while Miss Eunice hastily followed, anxiously crying: Philip!
"The Brass Bound Box"
Evelyn Raymond
The term Geyser is restricted to active openings whence columns of hot water and steam are from time to time ejected; the non-eruptive pools are only hot springs.
"A Girl's Ride in Iceland"
Ethel Brilliana Alec-Tweedie
The second class of prominences are best described as eruptive.
"The Story of the Heavens"
Robert Stawell Ball

Famous quotes with Eruptive

  • The Greeks, who were apparently strong on visual aids, originated the term stigma to refer to bodily signs designed to expose something unusual and bad about the moral status of the signifier. The signs were cut or burnt into the body and advertised that the bearer was a slave, a criminal, or a traitor — a blemished person, ritually polluted, to be avoided, especially in public places. Later, in Christian times, two layers of metaphor were added to the term : the first referred to bodily signs of holy grace that took the form of eruptive blossoms on the skin; the second, a medical allusion to this religious allusion, referred to bodily signs of physical disorder. Today the term is widely used in something like the original literal sense, but is applied more to the disgrace itself than to the bodily evidence of it. Furthermore, shifts have occurred in the kinds of disgrace that arouse concern. Students, however, have made little effort to describe the structural preconditions of stigma, or even to provide a definition of the concept itself. It seems necessary, therefore, to try at the beginning to sketch in some very general assumptions and definitions.
    Erving Goffman

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