'Fiery' definitions:
Definition of 'fiery'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Characterized by intense emotion; "ardent love"; "an ardent lover"; "a fervent desire to change society"; "a fervent admirer"; "fiery oratory"; "an impassioned appeal"; "a torrid love affair" [syn: ardent, fervent, fervid, fiery, impassioned, perfervid, torrid]
adjective
Like or suggestive of fire; "a fiery desert wind"; "an igneous desert atmosphere" [syn: fiery, igneous]
adjective
Very intense; "a fiery temper"; "flaming passions" [syn: fiery, flaming]
Definition of 'Fiery'
From: GCIDE
- Fiery \Fi"er*y\ (? or ?), a. [Formerly written firy, fr. fire.]
- 1. Consisting of, containing, or resembling, fire; as, the fiery gulf of Etna; a fiery appearance. [1913 Webster]
- And fiery billows roll below. --I. Watts. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Vehement; ardent; very active; impetuous. [1913 Webster]
- Hath thy fiery heart so parched thine entrails? --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- The fiery spirit of his forefathers. --W. Irwing. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Passionate; easily provoked; irritable. [1913 Webster]
- You know the fiery quality of the duke. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Unrestrained; fierce; mettlesome; spirited. [1913 Webster]
- One curbed the fiery steed. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 5. heated by fire, or as if by fire; burning hot; parched; feverish. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
- The sword which is made fiery. --Hooker. [1913 Webster]
- Fiery cross, a cross constructed of two firebrands, and pitched upon the point of a spear; formerly in Scotland borne by a runner as a signal for the clan to take up arms. --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'fiery'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abandoned,
- ablaze,
- accendible,
- afire,
- aflame,
- aglow,
- algetic,
- alight,
- angry,
- ardent,
- beany,
- blaring,
- blazing,
- boiling,
- boiling over,
- breathless,
- bricky,
- brilliant,
- broiling,
- burnable,
- burning,
- burning with excitement,
- cardinal,
- carmine,
- carnation,
- carnelian,
- cerise,
- chafed,
- cherry,
- cherry-colored,
- cherry-red,
- combustible,
- combustive,
- committed,
- conflagrant,
- conflagrative,
- cordial,
- crimson,
- damask,
- dedicated,
- delirious,
- devoted,
- devout,
- drunk,
- eager,
- earnest,
- edgy,
- emphatic,
- enthusiastic,
- excitable,
- excited,
- exciting,
- explosive,
- exuberant,
- faithful,
- fanatic,
- febrile,
- ferruginous,
- fervent,
- fervid,
- festering,
- fevered,
- feverish,
- feverous,
- fierce,
- fire-red,
- firelike,
- flame-colored,
- flame-red,
- flaming,
- flammable,
- flaring,
- flushed,
- furious,
- galled,
- glaring,
- gleaming,
- glowing,
- gules,
- hard-core,
- hasty,
- headlong,
- hearty,
- heated,
- hectic,
- het up,
- high-spirited,
- hot,
- hot-blooded,
- hot-tempered,
- hotheaded,
- hyperpyretic,
- hyperthermic,
- igneous,
- ignited,
- impassioned,
- impetuous,
- impulsive,
- in a fever,
- in earnest,
- in flames,
- in rut,
- incandescent,
- incarmined,
- inflamed,
- inflammable,
- infrared,
- intense,
- intent,
- intent on,
- intoxicated,
- irascible,
- iron-red,
- irritable,
- irritated,
- keen,
- lake-colored,
- laky,
- lateritious,
- lively,
- lobster-red,
- loyal,
- luminous,
- lurid,
- madcap,
- maroon,
- mettlesome,
- on fire,
- overheated,
- passionate,
- peppery,
- perfervid,
- port-wine,
- precipitate,
- provoking,
- puce,
- pyretic,
- pyric,
- quick,
- quick-tempered,
- radiant,
- rankling,
- raw,
- red,
- red-dyed,
- red-hot,
- red-looking,
- reddened,
- reddish,
- reddish-amber,
- reddish-brown,
- resolute,
- rubicund,
- rubiginous,
- rubric,
- rubricose,
- ruby,
- ruby-colored,
- ruby-red,
- ruddied,
- ruddy,
- rufescent,
- rufous,
- rust,
- rust-red,
- rusty,
- scalding,
- scarlet,
- scorching,
- seething,
- sensitive,
- serious,
- sexually excited,
- short-tempered,
- simmering,
- sincere,
- sizzling,
- smarting,
- sore,
- spirited,
- spunky,
- stammel,
- steaming,
- steamy,
- stimulating,
- stirring,
- stormy,
- tempestuous,
- tender,
- tile-red,
- tingling,
- Titian,
- Titian-red,
- tornadic,
- torrid,
- totally committed,
- touchy,
- unrestrained,
- urgent,
- vehement,
- vermilion,
- vigorous,
- vinaceous,
- violent,
- volcanic,
- warm,
- white-hot,
- wild,
- wine,
- wine-colored,
- wine-red,
- zealous