Definitions

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  • adjective Resembling a flame or its colour.

Etymologies

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flame +‎ -like

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Examples

  • The church is a classic example of the flamboyant, or "flamelike," overdone final stage of Gothic.

    chicagotribune.com - News 2010

  • Gernot Vogel Kopstein 's bronzeback snake (Dendrelaphis kopsteini) has bright orange, almost flamelike, neck coloration that gradually fuses into an iridescent blue, green and brown pattern.

    Borneo 2010

  • There's a fine, often surprising selection of large, angry, mature abstractions, with their jagged, flamelike shapes and troweled-on expanses of thick pigment, their labored surfaces seductive in the flood of light against warm concrete walls.

    Irascible Still Karen Wilkin 2011

  • For one, the heat and humidity—so treacherous to the crackly pink sugar that is pulled, flamelike, around a raspberry, so threatening to those crisp corn pañuelos inspired by Katie—are at their highest.

    The Sorcerer’s Apprentices Lisa Abend 2011

  • For one, the heat and humidity—so treacherous to the crackly pink sugar that is pulled, flamelike, around a raspberry, so threatening to those crisp corn pañuelos inspired by Katie—are at their highest.

    The Sorcerer’s Apprentices Lisa Abend 2011

  • Not everything here is tumescent: Théo van Rysselberghe's seascape "Big Clouds" (1893) is a bit of Seurat pointillism on the Danube, and in Klimt's "Forester House in Weissenbach on the Attersee" (1912), the open casements are painted with Van Gogh's flamelike passion.

    Modernism's Austrian Rebels Barrymore Laurence Scherer 2011

  • "Travel posters plastered the smoke-dark walls, like so many picture windows overlooking Swiss lakes and Japanese mountains and African velds, and thick, dusty bottle-candles, that seemed for centuries to have wept their colored waxes red over blue over green in a fine, three-dimensional lace, cast a circle of light round each table where the faces floated, flushed and flamelike themselves." page.

    Teaser Tuesday! Sam 2009

  • As Koloth tapped at a control panel on his desk, the lights came up, losing their flickering, flamelike quality.

    Star Trek: Myriad Universes: Shattered Light David R. George III 2010

  • The Children of Danu were the powers of life, the powers worshipped in the ecstatic dances among the woods and upon the mountains, and they had the flamelike changeability of life, and were the makers of all changes.

    Later Articles and Reviews W.B. Yeats 2000

  • The flamelike dark cypresses, writhing olive trees, blaring oversize suns, convulsed mountains, and vortically churning stars of Van Gogh's visionary madness are not far off.

    Determined Spirit Updike, John 2005

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