flaming
the process of combustion of inflammable materials producing heat and light and (often) smoke
- fire was one of our ancestors' first discoveries
• Syn:
fire, flame
• Derivationally related forms:
flame, flame (for: flame), fiery (for: fire), fire (for: fire)
• Hypernyms:
combustion, burning
• Hyponyms:
blaze, blazing, flare, ignition
1. informal intensifiers
- what a bally (or blinking) nuisance
- a bloody fool
- a crashing bore
- you flaming idiot
• Syn:
bally, blinking, bloody, blooming, crashing, fucking
• Similar to:
unmitigated
2. very intense
- a fiery temper
- flaming passions
• Syn:
fiery
• Similar to:
hot
• Derivationally related forms:
fieriness (for: fiery)
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