adj. 1 volatile, sensitive, delicate, tense, anxious, fraught, touch-and-go, touchy, inflammable, (highly) charged, unstable, uncertain, unsound, shaky, hazardous, chancy, unpredictable, precarious, dangerous, perilous, critical, nasty, ugly, Colloq dicey, iffy The explosive situation between the strikers and management may lead to bloodshed
n. 2 dynamite, TNT, gunpowder, gelignite, plastic, plastique The car was blown up by a powerful charge of explosive