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tindery

/tin-duh-ree/US // ˈtɪn də ri //

廷达里,廷达利,廷德利,廷德里

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : resembling tinder; highly inflammable or inflammatory.

Examples

  • Flying embers clattered upon the tindery roof, and in a moment the whole top of the long structure was ablaze.

  • Above the spiteful crackling of the tindery buildings, out of the thinning dark, came a clear, eager neigh!

  • With grandiloquent gesture he raised another of the tindery fragments and ignited it from the first.