Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Consisting of or containing fire.
- adjective Burning or glowing.
- adjective Using or effected with fire.
- adjective Easily ignited; flammable.
- adjective Having the color of fire; brightly red.
- adjective Torridly hot.
- adjective Feverishly hot and flushed.
- adjective Being in an inflamed, usually painful condition.
- adjective Easily excited or emotionally volatile; tempestuous.
- adjective Charged with emotion; spirited.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In cricket, causing the ball to bound high after pitching: said of wicket or bowler.
- Consisting of fire, or resembling fire; burning or flaming: as, the fiery flood of Etna; a fiery meteor; a flower of a fiery color.
- Like fire in character or quality; vehement; impetuous; passionate; fierce: as, a fiery speech; a fiery steed.
- Like fire in effect; heated by or as if by fire; producing a burning sensation: as, a fiery wound or eruption; fiery liquors or condiments.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Consisting of, containing, or resembling, fire
- adjective Vehement; ardent; very active; impetuous.
- adjective Passionate; easily provoked; irritable.
- adjective Unrestrained; fierce; mettlesome; spirited.
- adjective heated by fire, or as if by fire; burning hot; parched; feverish.
- adjective a cross constructed of two firebrands, and pitched upon the point of a spear; formerly in Scotland borne by a runner as a signal for the clan to take up arms.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of, or relating to
fire - adjective
Burning orglowing - adjective
Inflammable or easilyignited - adjective Having the
colour of fire - adjective
Hot orinflamed - adjective
Tempestuous oremotionally volatile - adjective
Spirited or filled withemotion
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective characterized by intense emotion
- adjective like or suggestive of fire
- adjective very intense
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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III. ii.188 (64,2) [all yon fiery O's] I would willingly believe that the poet wrote _fiery orbs_.
Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies Samuel Johnson 1746
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Stoops was 41-50 but also had led the Wildcats to bowl games each of the past three seasons, doing so in a manner that had the word "fiery" essentially affixed as a permanent addition to his first name.
The Seattle Times 2011
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The novel leaps to its climax nimbly as a pursuing fiend, and ends suitably in fiery revelation.
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The ending of the movie is also spectacular as Michael Myers goes down in fiery blaze, so we think.
Five Best Movies From the Halloween Series | myFiveBest 2009
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PG, you raise a good point about what PSRC's meant to be - an angle not explored at all by this coverage yet, which results in fiery but half-cocked comments.
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He actively led crusades against gay marriage, and by extension gays, railed against them on his websites, in fiery sermons, loudly backed George W. Bush's federal amendment banning gay marriage, and led a slanderous march to Martin Luther King, Jr. 's gravesite to denounce gay marriage.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson: Eddie Long Can Repent By Apologizing for Gay Bashing Earl Ofari Hutchinson 2010
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An Israeli official says Palestinian militants fired on Israeli soldiers from the courtyard of a U.N. school where dozens of people died in fiery explosions.
Coming Soon? Hamas' Media Massacre Not a sheep 2009
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He actively led crusades against gay marriage, and by extension gays, railed against them on his websites, in fiery sermons, loudly backed George W. Bush's federal amendment banning gay marriage, and led a slanderous march to Martin Luther King, Jr. 's gravesite to denounce gay marriage.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson: Eddie Long Can Repent By Apologizing for Gay Bashing Earl Ofari Hutchinson 2010
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As any first year medical student can tell you, gout is a very painful form of arthritis that is caused by high uric acid levels in the blood that deposit as crystals in the joint, causing pain that has been described as a fiery volcano in the ... you guessed it.
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He actively led crusades against gay marriage, and by extension gays, railed against them on his websites, in fiery sermons, loudly backed George W. Bush's federal amendment banning gay marriage, and led a slanderous march to Martin Luther King, Jr. 's gravesite to denounce gay marriage.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson: Eddie Long Can Repent By Apologizing for Gay Bashing Earl Ofari Hutchinson 2010
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