fiery

fiery
Synonyms and related words:
Titian, Titian-red, abandoned, ablaze, accendible, afire, aflame, aglow, algetic, alight, angry, ardent, beany, blaring, blazing, boiling, boiling over, breathless, bricky, brilliant, broiling, burnable, burning, burning with excitement, cardinal, carmine, carnation, carnelian, cerise, chafed, cherry, cherry-colored, cherry-red, combustible, combustive, committed, conflagrant, conflagrative, cordial, crimson, damask, dedicated, delirious, devoted, devout, drunk, eager, earnest, edgy, emphatic, enthusiastic, excitable, excited, exciting, explosive, exuberant, faithful, fanatic, febrile, ferruginous, fervent, fervid, festering, fevered, feverish, feverous, fierce, fire-red, firelike, flame-colored, flame-red, flaming, flammable, flaring, flushed, furious, galled, glaring, gleaming, glowing, gules, hard-core, hasty, headlong, hearty, heated, hectic, het up, high-spirited, hot, hot-blooded, hot-tempered, hotheaded, hyperpyretic, hyperthermic, igneous, ignited, impassioned, impetuous, impulsive, in a fever, in earnest, in flames, in rut, incandescent, incarmined, inflamed, inflammable, infrared, intense, intent, intent on, intoxicated, irascible, iron-red, irritable, irritated, keen, lake-colored, laky, lateritious, lively, lobster-red, loyal, luminous, lurid, madcap, maroon, mettlesome, on fire, overheated, passionate, peppery, perfervid, port-wine, precipitate, provoking, puce, pyretic, pyric, quick, quick-tempered, radiant, rankling, raw, red, red-dyed, red-hot, red-looking, reddened, reddish, reddish-amber, reddish-brown, resolute, rubicund, rubiginous, rubric, rubricose, ruby, ruby-colored, ruby-red, ruddied, ruddy, rufescent, rufous, rust, rust-red, rusty, scalding, scarlet, scorching, seething, sensitive, serious, sexually excited, short-tempered, simmering, sincere, sizzling, smarting, sore, spirited, spunky, stammel, steaming, steamy, stimulating, stirring, stormy, tempestuous, tender, tile-red, tingling, tornadic, torrid, totally committed, touchy, unrestrained, urgent, vehement, vermilion, vigorous, vinaceous, violent, volcanic, warm, white-hot, wild, wine, wine-colored, wine-red, zealous

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  • Fiery — Fi er*y (? or ?), a. [Formerly written firy, fr. fire.] 1. Consisting of, containing, or resembling, fire; as, the fiery gulf of Etna; a fiery appearance. [1913 Webster] And fiery billows roll below. I. Watts. [1913 Webster] 2. Vehement; ardent;… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • fiery — [fī′ər ē, fī′rē] adj. fierier, fieriest [ME firi] 1. containing or consisting of fire 2. like fire; glaring, hot, etc. 3. characterized by strong emotion; ardent; spirited [fiery words] 4. easily stirred up; excitable [a fiery nature] …   English World dictionary

  • fiery — index demonstrative (expressive of emotion), fervent, hot blooded, intense, vehement, zealous Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • fiery — late 13c., from M.E. fier fire (see FIRE (Cf. fire) (n.)) + Y (Cf. y) (2). The spelling is a relic of one of the attempts to render O.E. y in fyr in a changing system of vowel sounds. Related: Fieriness …   Etymology dictionary

  • fiery — *spirited, high spirited, peppery, gingery, mettlesome, spunky Analogous words: impetuous, *precipitate, headlong: passionate, perfervid, ardent, impassioned, fervid: vehement, intense, fierce, violent …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • fiery — [adj] passionate; on fire ablaze, afire, aflame, agitable, alight, blazing, burning, choleric, combustible, conflagrant, enthusiastic, excitable, febrile, fervid, fevered, feverish, fierce, flaming, flaring, flickering, flushed, glowing, heated,… …   New thesaurus

  • fiery — ► ADJECTIVE (fierier, fieriest) 1) resembling or consisting of fire. 2) quick tempered or passionate. DERIVATIVES fierily adverb fieriness noun …   English terms dictionary

  • fiery — [[t]fa͟ɪ͟əri[/t]] fieriest 1) ADJ: usu ADJ n If you describe something as fiery, you mean that it is burning strongly or contains fire. [LITERARY] A helicopter crashed in a fiery explosion in Vallejo. Syn: flaming 2) ADJ GRADED: usu ADJ n… …   English dictionary

  • fiery — adjective (fierier; est) Etymology: Middle English, from fire, fier fire Date: 13th century 1. a. consisting of fire b. marked by fire < a fiery crash > c. using or carried out with fire d. liable to catch fire or explode ; …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • fiery — fierily, adv. fieriness, n. /fuyeur ee, fuy euh ree/, adj., fierier, fieriest. 1. consisting of, attended with, characterized by, or containing fire: a volcano s fiery discharge. 2. intensely hot: fiery desert sands. 3. like or suggestive of fire …   Universalium

  • fiery — /ˈfaɪəri / (say fuyuhree) adjective (fierier, fieriest) 1. consisting of, attended with, characterised by, or containing fire: a fiery discharge. 2. intensely hot, as winds, desert sands, etc. 3. like or suggestive of fire: a fiery heat; a fiery… …  

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