The words inflammable and flammable both have the same meaning, ‘easily set on fire’. This might seem surprising, since the prefix in- normally has the function of negation, as in words like indirect and insufficient. In fact, inflammable is formed using a different Latin prefix in-, which has meaning ‘into’ and here has the effect of intensifying the meaning of the word in English. Flammable is frequently used where the writer is concerned that inflammable could be misunderstood as meaning ‘not easily set on fire’, for example on warning signs. The opposite of both inflammable and flammable is either non-inflammable or non-flammable.
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