Explosive and Mean

Explosive

Explosive adjective - Extreme in degree, power, or effect.

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Mean and explosive are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Mean" instead an adjective "Explosive".

Mean adjective - Being about midway between extremes of amount or size.

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Explosive and mean are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Explosive" instead an adjective "Mean".

Nearby Words: means, meaning, meanness, meant, meanly

good	good explosive	good mean
natural	natural explosive	natural mean
standard	standard explosive	standard mean
powerful	powerful explosive	powerful mean
Other adjectives: actual, real, big, conventional, primary, generic.

The Pyro sees a rainbow blower, a bubbler; and lollipops, everyone else sees searing flames, explosive flares, and a mean fire axe.

Source: Beware the Silly Ones
In the Farscape-verse, pulse rifles are actually projectile weapons that fire highly energized pulses of a refined explosive oil (oh, you know what I mean).

Source: Law of Inverse Recoil
As a general rule, just because Digimon tend to have explosive deaths doesn't mean you shouldn't stick around because they may pull themselves back together.

Source: Not Quite Dead

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