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blazing

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of blazing

1 being on fire
  • The blazing logs in the fireplace cast a warm glow on our holiday party.
Synonyms of blazing

ablaze, afire, aflame, burning, combusting, conflagrant, fiery, flaming, ignited, inflamed (also enflamed), kindled, lit (or lighted)
Words Related to blazing

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 blazing

choked, damped, dead, doused (also dowsed), extinguished, quenched, smothered, snuffed (out), stamped (out), suffocated
2 having or expressing great depth of feeling
  • a blazing speech affirming the value of every individual in this world
Synonyms of blazing

ardent, burning, charged, demonstrative, emotional, fervent, fervid, feverish, fiery, flaming, glowing, hot-blooded, impassioned, incandescent, intense, passional, passionate, perfervid, red-hot, religious, torrid, vehement, warm, warm-blooded
Words Related to blazing

gushing, gushy, maudlin, mawkish, mushy, saccharine, sappy, schmaltzy, sentimental, sloppy, sugary

histrionic, melodramatic

enthusiastic, gung ho, keen, zealous

enamored, infatuated, obsessed

uninhibited, unreserved, unrestrained

frenzied, orgiastic, overemotional, overexcited, overheated
Phrases Synonymous with blazing

on fire
Near Antonyms of blazing

detached, dry, impersonal, objective

reserved, undemonstrative
Antonyms of blazing

cold, cool, dispassionate, emotionless, impassive, unemotional

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