fiery
[fahyuh r-ee, fahy-uh-ree]
- consisting of, attended with, characterized by, or containing fire: a volcano's fiery discharge.
- intensely hot: fiery desert sands.
- like or suggestive of fire: a fiery red; angry, fiery eyes.
- intensely ardent, impetuous, or passionate: fiery courage; a fiery speech.
- easily angered or provoked: a fiery temper.
- causing a burning sensation, as certain liquors or condiments.
- inflamed, as a tumor or sore.
- Mining Older Use.
- highly flammable.
- containing highly flammable gas.
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Origin of fiery
Synonyms
See more synonyms for fiery on Thesaurus.com3. flaming, flashing, glowing, burning. 4. fervent, vehement, spirited, impassioned.
Antonyms
2–4. cool, cold. 4. dispassionate.
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Examples from the Web for fiery
Contemporary Examples
There was Milan Hruška, a fiery miner from the North Bohemian coal mines.
Next door, a strip mall popped and hissed as unknown accelerants aided in its fiery destruction.
Shortly after leaving Stanleyville, Richard Holm and a Cuban pilot went down in a fiery plane crash.
The fiery first-term conservative won narrowly over Democrat Mike Michaud Tuesday night.
The fiery trial through which we pass, will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.
Historical Examples
My brother is hot and fiery; Mr Chatterton is rash and headstrong.
Then he raised the marshal's head and gave him a sip of the fiery stuff.
Way of the LawlessMax Brand
It needed but that to add fresh fuel to the fiery mood of the prelate.
The White CompanyArthur Conan Doyle
The other boys did attempt it, however, simply to tease and annoy the fiery Corsican.
The Boy Life of NapoleonEugenie Foa
As for his rage, there is no telling what a fiery furnace it had now got to be.
Tanglewood TalesNathaniel Hawthorne
fiery
- of, containing, or composed of fire
- resembling fire in heat, colour, ardour, etca fiery desert wind; a fiery speaker
- easily angered or arouseda fiery temper
- (of food) producing a burning sensationa fiery curry
- (of the skin or a sore) inflamed
- flammable or containing flammable gas
- (of a cricket pitch) making the ball bounce dangerously high
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Word Origin and History for fiery
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