Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Burning intensely; blazing.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Burning; involved in a conflagration.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective rare Burning together in a common flame.

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  • adjective brightly burning

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Latin cōnflagrāns, cōnflagrant-, present participle of cōnflagrāre, to burn up : com-, intensive pref.; see com– + flagrāre, to burn; see bhel- in Indo-European roots.]

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Latin

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Examples

  • Claire chucks bits of wood onto the conflagrant pile and slams the stove door before they can spill out.

    Healer Carol Wiley Cassella 2010

  • Why did God let those websites crash when His believers were making their holy virtual pilgrimage to the images of the conflagrant cleric?

    Holy Smoke! 2007

  • Why did God let those websites crash when His believers were making their holy virtual pilgrimage to the images of the conflagrant cleric?

    Holy Smoke! 2007

  • The freshman had begun to read his essay in a loud, declamatory style; but gradually, knowing with an orator's instinct, I suppose, that his audience was not 'with' him, he had quieted down, and become rather nervous -- too nervous to skip, as I am sure he wished to skip, the especially conflagrant passages.

    Yet Again Max Beerbohm 1914

  • Her two-song cameo, near the concert's midpoint, had all the rude conflagrant force of a meteor crashing onto the stage.

    NYT > Home Page By NATE CHINEN 2012

  • The images, mostly breathtaking-horrifying aerial shots of an alternately lunar and conflagrant post-Gulf War Kuwaiti landscape, are at least strictly documentary; the formal framework, however-including various pieces of classical music; XIII portentously titled chapters; and a Herzog voiceover filled with vague destruction-myth proclamations ( "And the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell") - suggests post-apocalyptic fiction.

    Culture Guide Benjamin Mercer 2010

  • Throughout the span of modern European political and cultural clash, the tension between these sets of ideas has bred conflagrant rebellion and uproarious revolution, new beginnings and salient renewals.

    The Brown Daily Herald RSS 2010

  • The images, mostly breathtaking-horrifying aerial shots of an alternately lunar and conflagrant post-Gulf War Kuwaiti landscape, are at least strictly documentary; the formal framework, however-including various pieces of classical music; XIII portentously titled chapters; and a Herzog voiceover filled with vague destruction-myth proclamations ( "And the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell") - suggests post-apocalyptic fiction.

    The L Magazine - New York City's Local Event and Arts & Culture Guide 2010

  • Throughout the span of modern European political and cultural clash, the tension between these sets of ideas has bred conflagrant rebellion and uproarious revolution, new beginnings and salient renewals.

    The Brown Daily Herald RSS 2010

  • Conflagrate means to burn up, with its archaic form, conflagrant - burning.

    murderati 2009

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