Entry Word: ablaze

Function: adjective

Meaning: 1 being on fire <the entire block was ablaze by the time fire fighters arrived>

Synonyms afire, aflame, blazing, burning, combusting, fiery, flaming, ignited, inflamed, kindled, lighted (or lit)

Related Words aglow, alight, flaring, flickering, glowing, live, smoldering; broiling, hot, piping hot, red-hot, roasting, scalding, scorching, searing, sizzling; burnt, charred, incinerated, scorched, seared, singed

Near Antonyms choked, damped, dead, doused, extinguished, quenched, smothered, snuffed (out), stamped (out), suffocated

2 filled with much light <that night the ballroom, ablaze with light, looked very different from the curtained room it usually was by day> — see bright 2