Fiery
['faɪərɪ] or ['faɪəri]
Definition
(adj.) like or suggestive of fire; 'a fiery desert wind'; 'an igneous desert atmosphere' .
(adj.) very intense; 'a fiery temper'; 'flaming passions' .
Edited by Linda--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Consisting of, containing, or resembling, fire; as, the fiery gulf of Etna; a fiery appearance.
(a.) Vehement; ardent; very active; impetuous.
(a.) Passionate; easily provoked; irritable.
(a.) Unrestrained; fierce; mettlesome; spirited.
(a.) heated by fire, or as if by fire; burning hot; parched; feverish.
Checker: Uriah
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Igneous, of fire.[2]. Hot, heated.[3]. Ardent, impetuous, vehement, fierce, passionate, impassioned, fervent, fervid, glowing.
Checker: Walter
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Hot, vehement, ardent, fervent, fierce, passionate, irascible, choleric,excited, enkindled, glowing, fervid, impassioned, irritable, hotbrained
ANT:Cold, icy, indifferent, phlegmatic, passionless, unimpassioned, mild, quenched,extinguished, tame
Inputed by Leslie
Definition
adj. ardent: impetuous: irritable.—adv. Fier′ily.—ns. Fier′iness; Fier′y-cross (see Cross).—adjs. Fier′y-foot′ed swift in motion; Fier′y-hot impetuous; Fier′y-new hot from newness; Fier′y-short short and passionate.
Typist: Sharif
Examples
- His face was as fiery as ever; his eyes were as small, and rather deeper set. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Yes, even Crispin, reiterated Justinian in a fiery tone. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- It was indeed De Bracy--bloody with spurring, fiery red with speed. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- He swore ominous oaths over the drugged beer of alehouses, and drank strange toasts in fiery British gin. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Herncastle's fiery temper had been, as I could plainly see, exasperated to a kind of frenzy by the terrible slaughter through which we had passed. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Some patriarchs wore awful turbans, but the grand mass of the infidel horde wore the fiery red skull-cap they call a fez. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- This is wonderful-' It was a round opal, red and fiery, set in a circle of tiny rubies. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Just at my bedside, the figure stopped: the fiery eyes glared upon me--she thrust up her candle close to my face, and extinguished it under my eyes. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- She had to draw upon this thought, as upon some fiery stimulant, to keep up her part in the scene toward which Rosedale was too frankly tending. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- He had a fiery eye, and was over six feet in height. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
Checker: Rudolph