Words and phrases that have a meaning related to tinderbox: (120 results)
Often used in the same context:
powder keg, tinder, conflagration, cauldron, flashpoint, caldron, wildfire, fires, strife, kindling, reignition, smoldering, wasteland, inferno, arid, unrest, instability, tense, flare, blazes, pyromaniacs, firetrap, chaparral, lawlessness, incendiary, embers, fester, melting pot, crosscurrent, tensions, crucible, pariah, pressure cooker, breadbasket, drier, riots, loose cannon, hot spots, ferment, secessionism, arsonists, burning, stew, hellhole, aflame, flame, violence, hotbed, battleground, boomtown, galeras, brinkmanship, anarchy, grassfire, accelerant, bellicosity, immobilism, rainfall, accelerants, swelters, flareup, simmers, stagflationary, campfire, destabilization, unsettlement, crackling, unburnt, broiling, chaos, engulfing, catastrophe, postbellum, bonfires, furies, oasis, scrublands, bloodshed, microcosm, immiseration, awash, charnel house, backdraft, belligerency, fractiousness, unliveable, dicey, combustive, pathetic fallacy, quagmire, rhetoric, shambles, scorch, timebomb, conflict, swampland, ghettoes, brushland, restiveness, hotspot, desert, haze, keg, kaleidoscope, potpourri, avalanche, powerhouse, battlefield, battlegrounds, chessboard, firestorm, armageddon, cesspool, coaster, frictions, hothouse, insecurities
More general:
Also try:box, situation, state of affairs
— Adjectives for tinderbox: political, potential, racial, old, veritable, social, balkan, virtual, small, vast, little, more...
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