Definitions

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

  • adjective Resembling a flame; flaming.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Pertaining to, consisting of, or like flame.

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

  • adjective Flaming; blazing; flamelike; flame-colored; composed of flame.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective flaming, blazing
  • adjective flamelike, flame-colored
  • adjective composed of flame

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Examples

  • She will be wearing a gold dress by Kai Kuhne that she described as "short," "fringy" and "flamy."

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  • Okay, maybe it's just me, but David Copperfield and I have just visited Steerforth's family home, and between Steerforth calling the lad "Daisy," and the Queer Eye-view of the decor and inhabitants of the house, I feel like the book is just about to burst into little flamy flames.

    Archive 2006-04-01 Roger Sutton 2006

  • Okay, maybe it's just me, but David Copperfield and I have just visited Steerforth's family home, and between Steerforth calling the lad "Daisy," and the Queer Eye-view of the decor and inhabitants of the house, I feel like the book is just about to burst into little flamy flames.

    Reader in the Book Roger Sutton 2006

  • Jinn shot each other with flamy meteors till the battle-field was wrapped in smoke.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • If Marlboro 'begged him to toss up for chances, St. George answered that he never threw up a chance; when he went further and offered to stake success or loss, St. George told him he had cast his last die; when he would have spoken her name to him directly, St. George withered him with flamy eyes, and let his manner become too rigid for one to dare more with him.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864 Various

  • We saw from Charlestown's roofs and walls the flamy columns rise,

    Poems Teachers Ask For, Book Two Various

  • But in the February of 1429 -- four days before the Maid of Domremy set forth from her voice-haunted Bois Chenu to bring about a certain coronation in Rheims Church and in Rouen Square a flamy martyrdom -- four days before the coming of the good Lorrainer, Fulke d'Arnaye was slain at

    The Line of Love Dizain des Mariages James Branch Cabell 1918

  • Cuchulain crushed flamy barbs against that bosom of doom.

    Here are Ladies James Stephens 1916

  • In the stress of her need that had been swept aside to show her flamy and yet shy, quick with innocent passion.

    A Man Four-Square William MacLeod Raine 1912

  • The jostling, swaying lines on either side boil, and roar, and dash their flamy spray, two hostile billows of a fiery ocean.

    Haskell's Account of the Battle of Gettysburg. Paras. 100-125 1909

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