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dynamitical

dynamitical is the alternative form of dynamitic.

Meaning of dynamitic

Adjective (1)

dynamitic (comparative more dynamitic, superlative most dynamitic)

  1. Involving the use of dynamite.
    • The short note by R . R . Hunt read at the last meeting , relative to destroying snags by dynamitic charges , has led me to bring this subject again before the members, as I believe an alteration in the manner of firing the charges, which was carried out by the fuse, may lead to more comprehensive...1878, New Zealand Institute, Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute
  2. (broadly) Explosive; volatile.
    • The public that had reacted strongly to his “Editor's Study" could not be shaken by the polite statement of his social radicalism. His important essays on Liberty, Equality and Fraternity – which Howells thought were “terribly dynamitic" and which Walter H. Page felt hesitant to publish – finally...1982, Amerikastudien - Volume 27, page 228

Adjective (2)

dynamitic (comparative more dynamitic, superlative most dynamitic)

  1. (nonstandard, proscribed) Characterized by movement or change; dynamic.
    • The punctuality of news writing and reading—its “dynamitic” potential—is distinct from the timelessness of fictive discourse, which seeks to suspend a reader's sense of duration, the better to seduce the reader into the world of its text.2006, Jacqueline Goldsby, A Spectacular Secret: Lynching in American Life and Literature

Forms of dynamitical

comparativemore dynamitical
superlativemost dynamitical

Questions about dynamitical

What is dynamitical the alternative form of?
Dynamitical is the alternative form of dynamitic.

Words near dynamitical in the dictionary

  1. dynamited
  2. dynamiter
  3. dynamiters
  4. dynamites
  5. dynamitic
  6. dynamitical
  7. dynamitics
  8. dynamitin
  9. dynamiting
  10. dynamitings
  11. dynamitish

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