flaming

[fley-ming]

adjective

1. emitting flames; blazing; burning; fiery.

2. like a flame in brilliance, heat, or shape.

3. intensely ardent or passionate.

   flaming youth.

4. Informal.,  (used as an intensifier).

   What a flaming idiot!

5. Informal: Usually Disparaging and Offensive.,  (especially of a man) blatantly gay.

flaming

/ ˈfleɪmɪŋ /

adjective

1. burning with or emitting flames

2. glowing brightly; brilliant

3. intense or ardent; vehement; passionate

   a flaming temper

4. informal,  (intensifier)

   you flaming idiot

5. an obsolete word for flagrant

Other Word Forms

• flamingly adverb
• unflaming adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of flaming¹

First recorded in 1350–1400, flaming is from the Middle English word flammande; flame , -ing ²

Example Sentences

After we exchanged our vows, with friends and family gathered, we stood together, each with one hand on a flaming torch, and fired a 200-year-old cannon into the night sky.

From Salon

Farron told a hall full of activists to "stop being so flaming squeamish and English" and reclaim the UK's flags from groups who seek to "divide and destroy".

From BBC

Footage on Chinese social media site Weibo appeared to show a flaming vehicle on the ground which was being attended to by fire engines.

From BBC

The closest it has come to the Games was when Fotheringham memorably performed in the opening ceremony of the Rio 2016 Paralympics, when he rode down a giant ramp and backflipped through a flaming hoop.

From BBC

Bill Kilgore, the crazed cavalry commander in the 1979 Vietnam War film, “Apocalypse Now,” crouched in a black Stetson hat in front of a flaming Chicago skyline abuzz with black helicopters.

From Los Angeles Times

Related Words

• blazing 
• fiery 
• glowing 
• red-hot