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flaming

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of flaming

1 being on fire

a fancy restaurant serving eye-catching flaming desserts

Synonyms of flaming

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

Words Related to flaming

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 flaming

choked, damped, dead, doused (also dowsed), extinguished, quenched, smothered, snuffed (out), stamped (out), suffocated

2 having or expressing great depth of feeling

a flaming speech in support of basic human rights

Synonyms of flaming

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

Words Related to flaming

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 flaming

Near Antonyms of flaming

detached, dry, impersonal, objective

reserved, undemonstrative

Antonyms of flaming

cold, cool, dispassionate, emotionless, impassive, unemotional

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