Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Consisting of or containing fire.
- adj. Burning or glowing.
- adj. Using or effected with fire.
- adj. Easily ignited; flammable.
- adj. Having the color of fire; brightly red: fiery hair; a fiery sunset.
- adj. Torridly hot.
- adj. Feverishly hot and flushed: fiery cheeks.
- adj. Being in an inflamed, usually painful condition: a fiery boil.
- adj. Easily excited or emotionally volatile; tempestuous: a fiery temper.
- adj. Charged with emotion; spirited: a fiery denunciation.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- 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.
- In cricket, causing the ball to bound high after pitching: said of wicket or bowler.
Wiktionary
- adj. Of, or relating to fire
- adj. Burning or glowing
- adj. Inflammable or easily ignited
- adj. Having the colour of fire
- adj. Hot or inflamed
- adj. Tempestuous or emotionally volatile
- adj. Spirited or filled with emotion
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Consisting of, containing, or resembling, fire
- adj. Vehement; ardent; very active; impetuous.
- adj. Passionate; easily provoked; irritable.
- adj. Unrestrained; fierce; mettlesome; spirited.
- adj. heated by fire, or as if by fire; burning hot; parched; feverish.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. characterized by intense emotion
- adj. like or suggestive of fire
- adj. very intense
Etymologies
- Middle English firi, from fir ("fire"). (Wiktionary)
- Middle English firi, from fir, fire; see fire. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“III. ii.188 (64,2) [all yon fiery O's] I would willingly believe that the poet wrote _fiery orbs_.”
“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.”
“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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“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.”
“The ending of the movie is also spectacular as Michael Myers goes down in fiery blaze, so we think.”
“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.”
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“The novel leaps to its climax nimbly as a pursuing fiend, and ends suitably in fiery revelation.”
“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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““Huo” literally means fire, but here it refers to fiery behavior and emotions, such as being upset or angry, or yelling at others.”
“And since it has been written somewhere that concierges are old, ugly and sour, so has it been branded in fiery letters on the pediment of that same imbecilic firmament that the aforementioned concierges have rather large dithering cats who sleep all day on cushions that have been covered with crocheted cases.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘fiery’.
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Cepstrums
to cepstrumize a word is to reverse its 1st 4 characters in the way that "cepstrum" was derived from "spectrum" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cepstrum...
acedy, stutter, tipster, toosh, spitter, tapster, spatter, tutster, teaser, saeter, sooth, tierer and 202 more...
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Y
What a -Y does to an otherwise common, dull word
zany, waxy, wavy, arty, chewy, bony, boxy, cozy, nosy, foxy, wiry, junky and 321 more...
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Learning
For me to learn new words.
Bahamian, gamble, democratic, subsequent, horror, inherited, individuate, replete, prone, tiny, choreographer, magnetic and 7 more...
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If You Can't Say Anything Nice
Negative attributes or actions.
biased, cantankerous, caustic, contumacious, dilatory, disdain, duplicitous, fastidious, fractious, glower, haughty, imperious and 22 more...
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words to describe everything GOLD
emotions, reactions, senses, how do we feel when we wear gold, generational, memories,
Sensual, illuminated, history, intricate, classic, bright, luxe, sparkly, splashy, metallic, perfection, gilt and 30 more...
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Red
ruby, crimson, maroon, lava, fiery, rosewood, scarlet, rose, auburn, apple, blood, flaming and 10 more...
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jilma's list
favorite sounding words
alchemy, missoula, tenacity, colibrí, lilith, tangible, tangle, emblazoned, brazen, willowy, baroque, macabre and 35 more...
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The pretty ones
fiery, lithe, languorous, wax lyrical, resplendent, pithy, gossamer, loquacious, flummox, eschew, ardor, epiphany and 16 more...
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Starring
Anything and everything astronomically related.
cosmos, stars, fiery, furnace, blackness, void, expanse, constellation, constitution, comet, meteor, orion
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Nom de Guerre Finder
You've taken all the other quizzes--you've already used the name of your first pet and you're tired of having to use the name of the first street where you lived. Now it's time to find your excitin...
odyssey, dawn, desert, storm, noble, eagle, shield, freedom, enduring, swift, sharp, edge and 50 more...
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favored
visceral, twinkle, whalebone, incandescent, carousel, entangle, brevity, desolate, twirl, deltoid, graceless, tryst and 94 more...
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Writing
immunity, reaching, ingenuity, divinity, affinity, kaleidoscopes, statistics, hope, pictures, linguistics, magenta, mist and 222 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, F
felony, frolic, fend, fuselage, farthingale, freewheeling, frigorific, flummery, fancypants, felsitic, flagstone, flageolet and 295 more...
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words found to be generally pleasing
alabaster, mahogany, camphor, coalesce, spire, portmanteau, gadabout, palaver, dolor, dour, dun, luminesce and 610 more...
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katiefallwest's Words
facetious, hallows, snarky, literati, cantankerous, gryphon, esoteric, fortuitous, impetus, ubiquitous, muggle, colour and 144 more...
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miltonic
liberty, froth-becurlèd, host, huge-bellied, aghast, rills, gladsom, wrathfull, ordain, thunder-clasping, ruddy, warble and 264 more...
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