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ablaze

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of ablaze

1 being on fire

the entire block was ablaze by the time firefighters arrived

Synonyms of ablaze

afire, aflame, alight [chiefly British], blazing, burning, combusting, conflagrant, fiery, flaming, ignited, inflamed (also enflamed), kindled, lit (or lighted)

Words Related to ablaze

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 of ablaze

choked, damped, dead, doused (also dowsed), 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

Synonyms of ablaze

alight, bright, brightened, illuminated, illumined, light, lightsome, lit (or lighted)

Words Related to ablaze

floodlit (also floodlighted), highlighted, spotlighted (or spotlit)

ignited, kindled

moonlit, shiny, sunlit, sunny, sunshiny

Near Antonyms of ablaze

gloomy, somber (or sombre), sunless

cloudy, murky, obscured, shadowlike, shadowy

gray (also grey), leaden, pale

Antonyms of ablaze

blackened, dark, darkened, darkish, darkling, dimmed, dusk, dusky, lightless, pitch-black, pitch-dark, tenebrous, unlit

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