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flaming

flam·ing
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Transcription

    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • UK Pronunciation
    • UK IPA
    • [fley-ming]
    • /ˈfleɪ mɪŋ/
    • /ˈfleɪ.mɪŋ/
    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [fley-ming]
    • /ˈfleɪ mɪŋ/

Definitions of flaming word

  • abbreviation Technical meaning of FLAMING flame 3
  • adjective flaming emitting flames; blazing; burning; fiery. 1
  • adjective flaming like a flame in brilliance, heat, or shape. 1
  • adjective flaming intensely ardent or passionate: flaming youth. 1
  • adjective flaming Informal. (used as an intensifier) What a flaming idiot! 1
  • adjective flaming Informal: Usually Disparaging and Offensive. (especially of a man) blatantly gay: He's a flaming queen! 1

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Origin of flaming

First appearance:

before 1350
One of the 20% oldest English words
First recorded in 1350-1400, flaming is from the Middle English word flammande. See flame, -ing2

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Parts of speech for Flaming

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation

flaming popularity

A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 86% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".

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Synonyms for flaming

adj flaming

  • glowing — incandescent.
  • red-hot — red with heat; very hot.
  • fiery — consisting of, attended with, characterized by, or containing fire: a volcano's fiery discharge.
  • blazing — Blazing sun or blazing hot weather is very hot.
  • raging — angry fury; violent anger (sometimes used in combination): a speech full of rage; incidents of road rage.

adjective flaming

  • flickering — to burn unsteadily; shine with a wavering light: The candle flickered in the wind and went out.
  • on fire — a state, process, or instance of combustion in which fuel or other material is ignited and combined with oxygen, giving off light, heat, and flame.
  • fierce — menacingly wild, savage, or hostile: fierce animals; a fierce look.
  • furious — full of fury, violent passion, or rage; extremely angry; enraged: He was furious about the accident.
  • heated — made hot or hotter; warmed.

noun flaming

  • candescence — glowing; incandescent.
  • ignition — the act or fact of igniting; state of being ignited.
  • infrared — the part of the invisible spectrum that is contiguous to the red end of the visible spectrum and that comprises electromagnetic radiation of wavelengths from 800 nm to 1 mm.
  • garnetHenry Highland, 1815–82, U.S. clergyman and abolitionist.
  • fuchsia — a plant belonging to the genus Fuchsia, of the evening primrose family, including many varieties cultivated for their handsome drooping flowers.

Antonyms for flaming

adj flaming

  • gleeful — full of exultant joy; merry; delighted.
  • joyful — full of joy, as a person or one's heart; glad; delighted.
  • pleased — (used as a polite addition to requests, commands, etc.) if you would be so obliging; kindly: Please come here. Will you please turn the radio off?
  • dull — not sharp; blunt: a dull knife.
  • happy — delighted, pleased, or glad, as over a particular thing: to be happy to see a person.

adjective flaming

  • calm — A calm person does not show or feel any worry, anger, or excitement.

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