'Flaming' definitions:
Definition of 'Flaming'
From: GCIDE
- Flame \Flame\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Flamed; p. pr. & vb. n. Flaming.] [OE. flamen, flaumben, F. flamber, OF. also, flamer. See Flame, n.]
- 1. To burn with a flame or blaze; to burn as gas emitted from bodies in combustion; to blaze. [1913 Webster]
- The main blaze of it is past, but a small thing would make it flame again. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To burst forth like flame; to break out in violence of passion; to be kindled with zeal or ardor. [1913 Webster]
- He flamed with indignation. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Flaming'
From: GCIDE
- Flaming \Flam"ing\, a.
- 1. Emitting flames; afire; blazing; consuming; illuminating. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Of the color of flame; high-colored; brilliant; dazzling. "In flaming yellow bright." --Prior. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Ardent; passionate; burning with zeal; irrepressibly earnest; as, a flaming proclomation or harangue. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'flaming'
From: GCIDE
- colorful \colorful\ adj.
- 1. having striking color. Opposite of colorless.
- Note: [Narrower terms: {changeable, chatoyant, iridescent, shot}; deep, rich; flaming; fluorescent, glowing; prismatic; psychedelic; {red, ruddy, flushed, empurpled}]
- Syn: colourful. [WordNet 1.5]
- 2. striking in variety and interest. Opposite of colorless or dull. [Narrower terms: brave, fine, gay, glorious; flamboyant, resplendent, unrestrained; {flashy, gaudy, jazzy, showy, snazzy, sporty}; picturesque] [WordNet 1.5]
- 3. having color or a certain color; not black, white or grey; as, colored crepe paper. Opposite of colorless and monochrome.
- Note: [Narrower terms: tinted; touched, tinged; {amber, brownish-yellow, yellow-brown}; amethyst; {auburn, reddish-brown}; aureate, gilded, gilt, gold, golden; azure, cerulean, sky-blue, bright blue; {bicolor, bicolour, bicolored, bicoloured, bichrome}; {blue, bluish, light-blue, dark-blue}; {blushful, blush-colored, rosy}; bottle-green; bronze, bronzy; brown, brownish, dark-brown; buff; {canary, canary-yellow}; caramel, caramel brown; carnation; chartreuse; chestnut; dun; {earth-colored, earthlike}; fuscous; {green, greenish, light-green, dark-green}; jade, jade-green; khaki; {lavender, lilac}; mauve; moss green, mosstone; {motley, multicolor, culticolour, multicolored, multicoloured, painted, particolored, particoloured, piebald, pied, varicolored, varicoloured}; mousy, mouse-colored; ocher, ochre; olive-brown; olive-drab; olive; orange, orangish; peacock-blue; pink, pinkish; purple, violet, purplish; {red, blood-red, carmine, cerise, cherry, cherry-red, crimson, ruby, ruby-red, scarlet}; red, reddish; rose, roseate; rose-red; rust, rusty, rust-colored; {snuff, snuff-brown, snuff-color, snuff-colour, snuff-colored, snuff-coloured, mummy-brown, chukker-brown}; {sorrel, brownish-orange}; stone, stone-gray; {straw-color, straw-colored, straw-coloured}; tan; tangerine; tawny; ultramarine; umber; {vermilion, vermillion, cinibar, Chinese-red}; yellow, yellowish; yellow-green; avocado; bay; beige; {blae bluish-black or gray-blue)}; coral; creamy; {cress green, cresson, watercress}; hazel; {honey, honey-colored}; hued(postnominal); magenta; maroon; pea-green; russet; sage, sage-green; sea-green] [Also See: chromatic, colored, dark, light.]
- Syn: colored, coloured, in color(predicate). [WordNet 1.5]
Synonyms of 'flaming'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abandoned,
- ablaze,
- affected,
- afire,
- aflame,
- aflicker,
- aglow,
- alight,
- ardent,
- bedazzling,
- bedizened,
- big-sounding,
- blasted,
- blatant,
- blazing,
- bleeding,
- blinding,
- bloody,
- blooming,
- boiling,
- boiling over,
- breathless,
- bricky,
- bright,
- bright and shining,
- brilliant,
- burning,
- burning with excitement,
- candent,
- candescent,
- cardinal,
- carmine,
- carnation,
- carnelian,
- cerise,
- cherry,
- cherry-colored,
- cherry-red,
- comburent,
- committed,
- conflagrant,
- conspicuous,
- convoluted,
- cordial,
- crimson,
- damask,
- damned,
- dazzling,
- declamatory,
- dedicated,
- delirious,
- devoted,
- devout,
- drunk,
- earnest,
- effulgent,
- egregious,
- elevated,
- enthusiastic,
- euphuistic,
- excited,
- extravagant,
- exuberant,
- faithful,
- fanatic,
- febrile,
- ferruginous,
- fervent,
- fervid,
- fevered,
- feverish,
- fiery,
- fire-red,
- flagrant,
- flamboyant,
- flame-colored,
- flame-red,
- flaring,
- flashing,
- flashy,
- flaunting,
- flickering,
- flushed,
- fulgent,
- fulgid,
- fulgurant,
- fulgurating,
- fulsome,
- fuming,
- garish,
- gaudy,
- glaring,
- glary,
- glowing,
- Gongoresque,
- grandiloquent,
- grandiose,
- grandisonant,
- gules,
- guttering,
- hard-core,
- hearty,
- heated,
- hectic,
- het up,
- high-flowing,
- high-flown,
- high-flying,
- high-sounding,
- highfalutin,
- hot,
- hot-blooded,
- hotheaded,
- ignescent,
- ignited,
- impassioned,
- in a blaze,
- in a glow,
- in earnest,
- in flames,
- in rut,
- incandescent,
- incarmined,
- inflamed,
- infrared,
- inkhorn,
- intense,
- intent,
- intent on,
- intoxicated,
- iron-red,
- Johnsonian,
- keen,
- kindled,
- labyrinthine,
- lake-colored,
- laky,
- lateritious,
- lexiphanic,
- live,
- lively,
- living,
- lobster-red,
- lofty,
- loyal,
- lurid,
- madcap,
- magniloquent,
- maroon,
- meretricious,
- meteoric,
- obvious,
- on fire,
- orotund,
- ostentatious,
- overdone,
- overelaborate,
- overinvolved,
- overwrought,
- passionate,
- pedantic,
- perfervid,
- pompous,
- port-wine,
- pretentious,
- puce,
- red,
- red-dyed,
- red-hot,
- red-looking,
- reddened,
- reddish,
- reddish-amber,
- reddish-brown,
- reeking,
- refulgent,
- resolute,
- resplendent,
- rhetorical,
- rubicund,
- rubiginous,
- rubric,
- rubricose,
- ruby,
- ruby-colored,
- ruby-red,
- ruddied,
- ruddy,
- rufescent,
- rufous,
- rust,
- rust-red,
- rusty,
- scarlet,
- scintillant,
- scintillating,
- scorching,
- seething,
- sensational,
- sensationalistic,
- sententious,
- serious,
- sexually excited,
- showy,
- sincere,
- smoking,
- smoldering,
- sonorous,
- sparking,
- spirited,
- splendent,
- splendid,
- splendorous,
- stammel,
- steaming,
- steamy,
- stilted,
- tall,
- tile-red,
- Titian,
- Titian-red,
- tortuous,
- totally committed,
- unextinguished,
- unquenched,
- unrestrained,
- vehement,
- vermilion,
- vigorous,
- vinaceous,
- vivid,
- warm,
- white-hot,
- wine,
- wine-colored,
- wine-red,
- zealous
Words containing 'Flaming'
- Flame,
- Flamed,
- Flamingly,
- flame up,
- Flame bridge,
- Flame color,
- Flame engine,
- Flame manometer,
- Flame reaction,
- Flame tree,
- Sensitive flame,
- Singing flame,
- candle flame,
- fan the flame,
- flame bush,
- flame cell,
- flame durrajong,
- flame fish,
- flame flower,
- flame nettle,
- flame of fire,
- flame pea,
- flame stitch,
- flame tokay,
- flame-out,
- flaming poppy,
- Flame-colored,
- flame-coloured,
- flame-flower,
- flame-orange,
- flame-retardant,
- narrow-leaved flame flower