flaming has definitions from the fields of chemistry,color
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[ adjective ] (color) resembling flame in brilliance or color

Synonyms

ablaze

Examples

"maple trees ablaze in autumn" "flaming autumn leaves"

Used in print

(Helen Hooven Santmyer, "There Were Fences"...)

I have more_than once sat cross-legged in the grass through a long summer morning and watched without touching while a poppy bud higher than my head slowly but visibly pushed off its cap , unfolded , and shook out like a banner in the sun its flaming vermilion petals .

Related terms

colorful

2
[ adjective ] lighted up by or as by fire or flame

Examples

"forests set ablaze (or afire) by lightning" "even the car's tires were aflame" "candles alight on the tables" "blazing logs in the fireplace" "a burning cigarette" "a flaming crackling fire" "houses on fire"

Related terms

lighted

3
[ adjective ] very intense

Synonyms

fiery

Examples

"a fiery temper" "flaming passions"

Related terms

hot

4
[ adjective ] (used of persons) informal intensifiers

Examples

"what a bally (or blinking) nuisance" "a bloody fool" "a crashing bore" "you flaming idiot"

Related terms

unmitigated

5
[ noun ] (chemistry) the process of combustion of inflammable materials producing heat and light and (often) smoke

Synonyms

flame fire

Examples

"fire was one of our ancestors' first discoveries"

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