What does all-fire mean?
All-fire means (informal) Extreme or intense in degree..
Looking up this word…
Checking saved dictionary data and trusted language sources. This will stop automatically if a source does not respond.
Checking saved dictionary data and trusted language sources. This will stop automatically if a source does not respond.
Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
(informal) Extreme or intense in degree..
If you were not in such an all-fire hurry to get out of there, you would not have forgotten your purse.
If she's so all-fire lonely, why doesn't she ever leave her dorm room and actually meet people?
Use all-fire when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
All-fire means (informal) Extreme or intense in degree..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
If you were not in such an all-fire hurry to get out of there, you would not have forgotten your purse.
FreeDictionaryAPI.com / Wiktionary · Original source · CC BY-SA 4.0
Dictionary data is provided by FreeDictionaryAPI.com and sourced from Wiktionary under its stated license.