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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


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Derived Forms

  • ˈflamingly, adverb

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Other Words From

  • flaming·ly adverb
  • un·flaming adjective

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Word History and Origins

Origin of flaming1

First recorded in 1350–1400, flaming is from the Middle English word flammande; flame none, -ing 2none

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Example Sentences

“We know the outbreak is still flaming strongly in western Sierra Leone and some parts of the interior of Guinea,” said Nabarro.

He circled around to the North Tower and saw what he at first took to be clothing tossed from the flaming heights.

It was a terrifying bombardment of rocks, palm trunks and flaming naphtha.

I saw some fun photos online of you and Nicholas Hoult doing flaming shots.

Frank Ocean, Kanye West, and the Flaming Lips (along with many others) will be in attendance from June 12 to 15.

The electric wires got out of working order, and the city was lighted only by the glare of the flaming buildings.

The whole is enclosed by a low brick wall, topped by iron railings painted flaming red.

Sometimes they were conceived as flaming swords; their forms, indeed, lend themselves to this imagining.

He made no attempt to detain Jessie, who passed down the street with her cheeks flaming.

The men at the station came out with flaming torches—awful-looking fellows indeed!

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