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Meaning of phlogistic | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR B2

Definitions

Inflammatory; pertaining to inflammations and fevers.
Pertaining to or containing phlogiston.
historical
Burning, fiery.
obsolete

Examples

“His experiments, with their phlogistic explanations, led him to believe that the only distinct species of air were the fixed, alkaline, and acid.”

CEFR level

B2

Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

See also

phlogisticated phlogistonic phlogogenous phlogopitic phlogosed phlogotic