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fieryadjective being on firethe fiery Yule log made a splendid backdrop for our holiday party ablaze, afire, aflame, alight(chiefly British), blazing, burning, combusting, conflagrant, flaming, ignited, inflamed(also enflamed), kindled, lit(or lighted) aglow, flaring, flickering, glowing, live, smoldering(or smouldering)broiling, hot, piping hot, red-hot, roasting, scalding, scorching, searing, sizzlingburned(or burnt), charred, incinerated, scorched, seared, singed choked, damped, dead, doused(also dowsed), extinguished, quenched, smothered, snuffed (out), stamped (out), suffocated having a notably high temperaturethe long, dangerous trek across the fiery desert ardent, boiling, broiling, burning, fervent, fervid, hot, piping hot, red, red-hot, roasting, scalding, scorching, searing, sultry, superheated, sweltering, torrid, ultrahot, white-hot blazing, glowing, igneous, molten, seething, sizzlingheated, overheated, reheated, warmedsnug, toasty, warm, warmishfeverish, flushed, inflamed(also enflamed)canicular, muggy, steamy, summerlike, summery, tropical algid, arctic, bitter, bone-chilling, cold, freezing, frigid, frozen, glacial, ice-cold, iced, icy chill, chilly, coldish, cool, coolish, nippy, snappyblizzardly, frosty, snowy, subfreezing, subzero, wintry(also wintery)chilled, cooled, refrigerated, unheatedbenumbed, numb, shivering having or expressing great depth of feelingthe fiery preacher held the members of the revival meeting spellbound ardent, blazing, burning, charged, demonstrative, emotional, fervent, fervid, feverish, flaming, glowing, hot-blooded, impassioned, incandescent, intense, passional, passionate, perfervid, red-hot, religious, superheated, torrid, vehement, warm, warm-blooded gushing, gushy, maudlin, mawkish, mushy, saccharine, sappy, schmaltzy, sentimental, sloppy, sugaryhistrionic, melodramaticenthusiastic, gung ho, keen, zealousenamored, infatuated, obsesseduninhibited, unreserved, unrestrainedfrenzied, orgiastic, overemotional, overexcited, overheated on fire cold, cool, dispassionate, emotionless, impassive, unemotional detached, dry, impersonal, objectivereserved, undemonstrative marked by a lively display of strong feelingthe controversial editorial sparked a page's worth of fiery letters to the editor gingery, high-spirited, mettlesome, peppery, spirited, spunky aggressive, ambitious, assertive, high-pressure, in-your-face, militant, pushyanimate, animated, bouncing, bouncy, brisk, energetic, feisty, frisky, jaunty, jazzy, kinetic, peppy, perky, pert, racy, scrappy, snappy, spanking, sparky, sprightly, springy, vital, vivacious, zippyardent, fervent, impassioned, passionateemphatic, obtrusive halfhearted, leaden, spiritless bloodless, boring, dull, lifelessdead, inanimate, lackadaisical, languid, languorous, limp, listlessinert, lethargic, sleepy, sluggish, tired, torpidlow-pressure, nonassertive, unaggressive, unambitious, unassertive, unenterprising capable of catching or being set on firewith a fiery vapor like that, the lighting of a single match could cause an explosion burnable, combustible, combustive, flammable, ignitable(also ignitible), inflammable, touchy explosive, incendiary fireproof, incombustible, nonburnable, noncombustible, nonflammable, noninflammable, unburnable nonexplosive easily irritated or annoyedsince the governor was known for his fiery temper, naturally his aides always shielded him from bad news choleric, crabby, cranky, cross, crotchety, grouchy, grumpy, irascible, irritable, peevish, perverse, pettish, petulant, prickly, quick-tempered, raspy, ratty, short-tempered, snappish, snappy, snarky, snippety, snippy, stuffy, testy, waspish bearish, bilious, cantankerous, cross-grained, curmudgeonly, disagreeable, dyspeptic, ill-humored, ill-natured, ill-tempered, off-color(or off-colored), ornery, querulous, snarly, surlyargumentative, bellicose, belligerent, combative, contentious, disputatious, fractious, fretful, pugnacious, quarrelsome, scrappy, truculenthuffy, pouty, sensitive, short, sulky, sullen, tetchy, thin-skinned, touchyhot-blooded, passionate out of humor, out of sorts affable, companionable, cordial, extroverted(also extraverted), friendly, genial, gregarious, outgoing, sociableagreeable, amiable, good-natured, good-tempered, sweet, well-disposedcarefree, easygoing, happy-go-lucky, relaxedforbearing, long-suffering, obliging, patient, stoic(or stoical), tolerant, uncomplaining, understanding in the 13th century |