Fiery

Quick meaning: Fiery is an adjective meaning Of or relating to fire.

Meaning

Of or relating to fire.

More Meanings

1. Burning or glowing.
2. Inflammable or easily ignited.
3. Having the colour of fire.
4. Hot or inflamed.
5. Tempestuous or emotionally volatile; sulfurous.
6. Spirited or filled with emotion.
7. (butchery) Having the capillaries contracted due to stress at time of slaughter, causing blood to not drain properly.

Example Sentences

a fiery temper

A fiery streak penetrates your skull, trying to force your eyes open. It's a sound. A clarion call from hell.

The desert storm was riding in its strength; the travellers lay beneath the mastery of the fell simoom.[…]Drifts of yellow vapour, fiery, parching, stinging, filled the air.

Blast after blast, fiery outbreak after fiery outbreak, like a flaming barrage from within,[…]most of Edison's grounds soon became an inferno. As though on an incendiary rampage, the fires systematically devoured the contents of Edison's headquarters and facilities.

Word Forms

• fierier
• fieriest

Synonyms for fiery

Depending on context, synonyms include torrid, fervid, ardent, fervent, hot, passionate.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include flaming, igneous, burning, hot, torrid, perfervid.

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