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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (3)

1. producing or characterized by eruptions;
- Example: "an eruptive disease"

2. produced by the action of fire or intense heat;
- Example: "rocks formed by igneous agents"
[syn: igneous, eruptive]

3. actively spewing out lava;
- Example: "a geyser is an intermittently eruptive hot spring"


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Eruptive \E*rup"tive\, a. [Cf. F. ['e]ruptif.] 1. Breaking out or bursting forth. [1913 Webster] The sudden glance Appears far south eruptive through the cloud. --Thomson. [1913 Webster] 2. (Med.) Attended with eruption or efflorescence, or producing it; as, an eruptive fever. [1913 Webster] 3. (Geol.) Produced by eruption; as, eruptive rocks, such as the igneous or volcanic. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Eruptive \E*rup"tive\, n. (Geol.) An eruptive rock. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

eruptive adj 1: producing or characterized by eruptions; "an eruptive disease" 2: produced by the action of fire or intense heat; "rocks formed by igneous agents" [syn: igneous, eruptive] [ant: aqueous, sedimentary] 3: actively spewing out lava; "a geyser is an intermittently eruptive hot spring"
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

27 Moby Thesaurus words for "eruptive": agitable, bursting, detonating, edgy, emotional, emotionally unstable, excitable, explodable, explosible, explosive, fulminating, high-mettled, high-spirited, high-strung, highly emotional, inflammable, irascible, irritable, mettlesome, nervous, perturbable, prickly, sensitive, skittish, startlish, touchy, volcanic