flaming
flaming
adjDefinition of FLAMING
1
: resembling or suggesting a flame in color, brilliance, or wavy outline <the flaming sunset sky> <flaming red hair>
2
: being on fire : blazing <a flaming torch>
3
: intense, passionate <flaming youth>
4
—used as an intensive <you flaming idiot>
— flam·ing·ly adverb
Examples of FLAMING
- <a fancy restaurant serving eye-catching flaming desserts>
- <a flaming speech in support of basic human rights>
First Known Use of FLAMING
14th century
Related to FLAMING
Related Words: aglow, flaring, flickering, glowing, live, smoldering (or smouldering); broiling, hot, piping hot, red-hot, roasting, scalding, scorching, searing, sizzling; burned (or burnt), charred, incinerated, scorched, seared, singed
Near Antonyms: choked, damped, dead, doused (also dowsed), extinguished, quenched, smothered, snuffed (out), stamped (out), suffocated
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