Fiery

Definition: Fiery

Fiery

Adjective

1. Characterized by intense emotion; "ardent love"; "an ardent lover"; "a burning enthusiasm"; "a fervent desire to change society"; "a fervent admirer"; "fiery oratory"; "an impassioned appeal"; "a torrid love affair".

2. Like or suggestive of fire; "the burning sand"; "a fiery desert wind"; "an igneous desert atmosphere".

3. Very intense; "a fiery temper"; "flaming passions".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "fiery" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Note: Fiery \Fi"er*y\, adjective. [Formerly written firy, from fire.]. (references)

Synonyms: Fiery

Excitability

Vehement, demonstrative, violent, wild, furious, fierce, fiery, hot-headed, madcap.

Feeling

Earnest, wistful, eager, breathless; fervent; fervid; gushing, passionate, warm-hearted, hearty, cordial, sincere, zealous, enthusiastic, glowing, ardent, burning, red-hot, fiery, flaming; boiling over.

Furnace

Noun: furnace, stove, kiln, oven; cracker; hearth, focus, combustion chamber; athanor, hypocaust, reverberatory; volcano; forge, fiery furnace; limekiln; Dutch oven; tuyere, brasier, salamander, heater, warming pan; boiler, caldron, seething caldron, pot; urn, kettle; chafing-dish; retort, crucible, alembic, still; waffle irons; muffle furnace, induction furnace; electric heater, electric furnace, electric resistance heat.

Heat

Fiery; incandescent, incalescent; candent, ebullient, glowing, smoking; live; on fire; dazzling. Verb: in flames, blazing, in a blaze; alight, afire, ablaze; unquenched, unextinguished; smoldering; in a heat, in a glow, in a fever, in a perspiration, in a sweat; sudorific; sweltering, sweltered; blood hot, blood warm; warm as a toast, warm as wool.

Imagination

Warm imagination, heated imagination, excited imagination, sanguine imagination, ardent imagination, fiery imagination, boiling imagination, wild imagination, bold imagination, daring imagination, playful imagination, lively imagination, fertile imagination, fancy.

Indication

Signal, signal post; rocket, blue light; watch fire, watch tower; telegraph, semaphore, flagstaff; cresset, fiery cross; calumet; heliograph; guidon; headlight.

Irascibility

Hasty, overhasty, quick, warm, hot, testy, touchy, techy, tetchy; like touchwood, like tinder; huffy; pettish, petulant; waspish, snappish, peppery, fiery, passionate, choleric, shrewish, " sudden and quick in quarrel ".

Excitability; bad temper, fiery temper, crooked temper, irritable; Adjective: temper; genus irritabile, hot blood.

Pain

Care, anxiety, solicitude, trouble, trial, ordeal, fiery ordeal, shock, blow, cark, dole, fret, burden, load.

Resentment

Fierce, wild, rageful, furious, mad with rage, fiery, infuriate, rabid, savage; relentless.

Violence

Fiery, flaming, scorching, hot, red-hot, ebullient.

Crosswords: Fiery

It must be taken deep into Mordor and cast back into the fiery chasm from whence it came (The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring; writing credit: Frances Walsh)

Fiery the angels fell (Blade Runner; writing credit: Philip K. Dick; Hampton Fancher)

Amen! I mean my biggest fear is that I'm gonna marry the woman that I want to hang out with and talk to in my golden years and then die in a fiery car crash when I'm forty and I miss all those years of having sex. (The Tao of Steve; writing credit: Duncan North; Greer Goodman)

Come for me when the fiery ball weighs heavy in the sky. (The League of Gentlemen; writing credit: Jeremy Dyson; Mark Gatiss)

As the candy hearts poured into the fiery quasar a wondrous thing happened, why not. They vaporized into a mystical love radiation that spread across the universe destroying many, many planets, including two gangster planets and a cowboy world (Futurama; writing credit: Lance Smith; Carl Colpaert)

And It Makes A Fiery Ring (Ring Of Fire; performing artist: JOHNNY CASH; writing credit: June Carter and Merle Kilgore)

With fiery eyes and dreams no one could steal (Lyin' Eyes; performing artist: The Eagles)

Liang Kuan's Fight at Fiery Tiger Pit (1958)

Fiery Fireman (1928)

The Fiery Hand (1923)

A Fiery Introduction (1915)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• The Fiery Pantheon (reference)

• The Fiery Ring (House of Winslow, 28) (reference)

• The Kimchee Cookbook: Fiery Flavors and Cultural History of Korea's National Dish (reference)

• This Fiery Trial: The Speeches and Writings of Abraham Lincoln (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Fiery Foods & Barbecue Business Magazine (reference)

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Theater & Movies

• Fiery Furnace (reference)

• Civil War: The Fiery Trail (reference)

• National Geographic's Hindenburg's Fiery Secret (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Prokofiev: The Fiery Angel (reference)

• Fiery (reference)

• Folk 'N' Hell: Fiery New Music From Scotland (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Efi Fiery X4-2 Rip Server 128MBps3 20GB for Des 500 800 5000 (reference)

• Fiery X2 Rip for Stylus Pro7000 9000 (reference)

• Rs-5100 Fiery X2 Rip for Styluspro 7500 9500 (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

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GOES G ends in a fiery explosion as the Cape Canaveral Range Safety Officer destroys Delta Launch Vehicle 178 after 91 seconds. Credit: NOAA in Space.

A well-directed volley at this time might have rid Spain of the fiery old guerilla. Credit: Library of Congress.

Fiery steed, Port-au-Prince, Hayti, W.I., A. Credit: Library of Congress.

Fiery trees and silver flowers light up the night. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

A fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pygmy-body to decay, And o'er-inform'd the tenement of clay

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

You know it at once. It may be the fiery sensation of a burn moments after your finger touches the stove. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Fiery

Expressions using "fiery": fiery cross ♦ fiery flaw ♦ fiery imagination ♦ fiery ordeal ♦ fiery sparks. Additional references.

Beginning with "fiery": fiery-eyed, fiery-headed, fiery-headedness, fiery-red, fiery-tempered.

Ending with "fiery": non-fiery.

Albanian

përvëlues (burning, scalding, torrid, withering), i zjarrtë (ardent, fervent, fervid, flaming, flamy, heated, hot, hot-blooded, inflammatory, passional, passionate, perfervid, sultry, volcanic, vulcanic, warm, warm blooded), i papërmbajtur (demonstrative, ebullient, effuse, effusive, gushing, harum scarum, hot-blooded, hot-headed, Hotspur, immoderate, incontinent, intemperate, jazz, jazzy, lawless, out of hand, rampageous, rampant, unchecked, unconscionable, uncontained, uncontrollable, unreserved, unrestrained, wanton, wild), i nxehtë (ardent, burning, earnest, fervent, glowing, heated, hot, red-hot, scalding, torrid), djegës (acrid, hot, piquant, poignant, pungent). (various references)

Arabic 

‏ملتهب (ablaze, aflame, blazing, burning, flaming, flammable, impassioned, in flames, inflammatory, passionate, red-hot, vehement), ‏متقد (ablaze, aflame, aglow, blazing, burning, fervent, flamboyance, flamboyancy, flaming, glowing, impassioned, incandescent, passionate, red-hot, strenuous, sultry, torrid, vehement), ‏متحمس (advocate, ardent, ardent supporter, eager, eagerly intent, ebullient, enthusiast, enthusiastic, fanatic, fanatical, fervent, fervid, hot, hothead, impassioned, keen, passionate, strenuous, warm, zealot, zealous), ‏ناري (igneous), ‏حارق (burner, burning, incendiary, incinerating, incinerator, scorching, searing), ‏حار كالنار. (various references)

Bulgarian 

горещ (aglow, burning, devout, fervent, fervid, flaming, high-spirited, hot, intense, scorching, strong, thermal, torrid), възпламенителен (fulminatory, incendiary), огнен (flamy, igneous, lurid, phlogistic, sultry), лют (angry, biting, hot, peppery, pungent, salt), пламтящ (aflame, blazing, flaming, lurid), пламенен (ardent, ebullient, fervent, flaming, flamy, glowing, incandescent, passionate, red blooded, torrid, zealous), избухлив (explosive, hot, inflammable, irritable, passionate, peevish, plosive, quick tempered, short tempered, violent, volatile). (various references)

Chinese 

煃 (blazing), 火热, 爚 (bright), 如火 . (various references)

Czech

vznìtlivý (combustible, excitable, hot tempered, inflammable, nervy, quick tempered, stormy), temperamentní (bubbly, high-spirited, lively, spirited, vital, vivacious), prudký (abrupt, acrimonious, big, bulge, effervescent, ferocious, fierce, glaring, grievous, gusty, heady, heated, heavy, high, hot tempered, hot-headed, impetuous, intense, keen, passional, passionate, peppery, rapid, rash, robust, rude, sharp, steep, stormy, strong, sweeping, tempestuous, towering, tumultuous, vehement, vicious, vigorous, violent, virulent), prchlivý (choleric, excitable, hasty, hotheaded, irascible), ohnivý (igneous, inflammatory), horkokrevný (hot-blooded, peppery, warm blooded). (various references)

Danish

overophedet stål (fiery steel, overblown steel). (various references)

Dutch

zeer onrustig staal (fiery steel, overblown steel). (various references)

Finnish

tulinen (ardent, burning, hot, hot-headed, passionate), tulimmainen (ardent, burning, hot, hot-headed, passionate), leimuava (burning, flaming, glowing), hehkuva (ardent, burning, glowing, live, red-hot). (various references)

French

fougueux, enthousiaste, brûlent, ardent (fierce). (various references)

German

feurig (ardent, fervently, fierily, glowing, igneous, mettled, mettlesome, racy, spirited, spiritedly, spunky, vigorous). (various references)

Greek 

πύρινοσ (igneous, nuclear), παθιασμένος (passionate), φλογερόσ (aglow, ardent, flaming, glowing, inflammatory, lurid, passionate, red-hot), φλογερός (ardent). (various references)

Hebrew 

מתלקח (combustible, flammable, inflammable), לוהט (aglow, burning, fervid, flaming, glowing, heated, incandescent, torrid), אשי, רתחן (bad tempered, hot tempered, irascible, splenetic), נלהב (animated, ardent, devotee, ebullient, enthusiast, enthusiastic, excited, fervent, fervid, impassioned, keen, zealous). (various references)

Hungarian

tüzes (ardent, fierce, heated, igneous, impetuous, mettled, mettlesome, temperament, to feel one's oats). (various references)

Indonesian

bergelora (effervesce, impassioned, seethe), berapi (be on fire, fervent, have fire). (various references)

Italian

focoso (ardently, dashing, hot, hot-blooded, hot-headed, spirited, sultry), infocato, infiammato (alight), ardente (ablaze, afire, aflame, aglow, ardent, burning, eager, earnest, fervent, fierce, hot, live, passionate). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

爛爛 (flaming, glaring). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

らんらん (flaming, glaring). (various references)

Korean 

불같이. (various references)

Manx

so-lostey (ignitable, inflammable), keoie (crazy, frenetic, frenzied, furious, insane, lunatic, maniac, savage, vicious, wild, wild as person), chennoil (vehement), aileagh (igneous, inflammable). (various references)

Norwegian

fyrig, flammende, heftig (impetuous). (various references)

Pig Latin

ieryfay.(various references)

Portuguese

fogoso (ardent, burning, dashing, frisky, hot, hot-blooded, hot-brained, hot-headed, hotspur, hot-tempered, impetuous, mettled, mettlesome, proud, proud-spirited, unruly), inflamado (ablaze, aglow, exalted, high-level, high-up, sore), inflamável (flammable), impetuoso (dashing, forcible, furious, headlong, heady, hot, hot-brained, hot-headed, hot-tempered, impetuous, lawless, licentious, mettled, mettlesome, passionate, riotous, slapdash, tearing, tempestuous, vehement, violent, volcanic), escaldante (baking, scalding), ardente (ablaze, afire, aflame, aglow, alight, ardent, blazing, burning, eager, feeling, fervent, fervid, fierce, flaming, het up, hot, hot-blooded, hotspur, incandescent, intense, keen, longing, passionate, scorching, torrid, tropic, tropical, vehement, volcanic, warm), ígneo. (various references)

Romanian

furios (desperate, enraged, frantic, furious, high, hot-headed, howling, in anger, irate, ireful, like fury, mad, passionate, raging, rampageous, robust, scowling, storming, wanton, wild, wrathful), focos (ardent, high-mettled, hot tempered, match, mercurial, passionate, peppery, quick tempered, spirited), fierbinte (ardent, boiling, burning, consuming, devout, ebullient, fervent, hot, intense, scorching, torrid), de foc (igneous, lurid), încins (fusty, girded, hot, musty), înflãcãrat (ardent, eager, enthusiastic, flaming, glowing, hot, hot-blooded, passionate, perfervid, red-hot, tropical, warm blooded), înfocat (ardent, bright, eager, enthusiastic, fervid, heated, hectic, hot, hot stuff, passionate, proud, red-hot), învãpãiat (bright, flaming, hot), înverşunat (deadly, desperate, fierce, frenzied, furious, hot, rabid, sharp, stubborn), aprig (cruel, ferocious, fierce, grim, hard-hearted, harshly, high-spirited, impetuous, passionate, passionately, severe, sharp, truculent, violent), aprins (ablaze, aflame, aglow, alight, ardent, blazing, bright, brilliant, burning, eager, fervent, glowing, hasty, heated, hot, hot-blooded, hothead, kindled, live, living, lurid, mercurial, passionate, peppery, perfervid, sharp, sudden, vehement, violent, vivid), în flãcãri (ablaze, afire, aflame, aglow, flaming, in a blaze, inflamed, lurid), crâncen (awful, dreadful, ferocious, terrible, terrific), vajnic (fearful, frightful, terrible, vigorous), dogoritor (scorching), expansiv (effusive, expansive, exuberant, gushy, unreserved), inflamabil (combustible, inflammable, lightable), pãtimaş (ardent, ardently, fervent, fervently, inveterate, lustily, passionate, passionately), sãlbatic (barbarous, bloodthirsty, brutal, brutish, cruel, feral, ferine, ferocious, fierce, haggard, harsh, impetuous, inhuman, inhumanly, rugged, sanguinary, savage, shaggy, tameless, truculent, uncivilized, uncouth, uncouthly, uncultivated, uncultured, ungovernable, unruly, unsociable, violent, wild, wild man), arzãtor (ardent, ardently, burner, burning, hot, hot-blooded, intense, passionately, scorching, sultry, topical, urgent). (various references)

Russian 

сверкающий (agleam, glistening, lambent, sparkling, splendent), раскаленный (candent, incandescent), горячий (ardent, boiling hot, burning, earnest, fervent, fervid, full of beans, glowing, heady, heated, hot, hot-blooded, hot-brained, hot-headed, mettled, red-hot, vehement, warm blooded), вспыльчивый (choleric, explosive, hair-trigger, hasty, hot tempered, hot-blooded, hot-headed, hot-spirited, hot-tempered, inflammable, irascible, ornery, peppery, quick tempered, quicktempered, short tempered, short-tempered, spitfire, testy, wildcat), огненный (flamy). (various references)

Scottish

laisgeanta. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

vatren (ardent, burning, glowing, gushing, hot-blooded, igneous, peppery, perfervid, red-hot, spirited, spunky, torrid), plahovit (effusive, heady, hotspur, impetuous, tumultuary, ugly), ognjen (ardent, igneous). (various references)

Spanish

ardiente (ablaze, afire, aflame, ardent, boiling hot, burning, fervent, fervid, gloweringly, glowing, hot, incandescent, lurid, passionate, perfervid, scorching, warm). (various references)

Swedish

hetsig (excitable, hot, hot-headed, passionate, peppery, warm), eldig (a passionate nature, ardent, high-spirited, mettlesome, passionate). (various references)

Thai

เร่าร้อน, ซึ่งลุกเป็นไฟ. (various references)

Turkish

yanıcı (combustible, flammable, inflammable), parlayan (aglow, ardent, lambent, shining, sparkling), kızgın (angry, angry with, annoyed, ardent, baking, black, boiling, cross, dyspeptic, fervent, fierce, flaming, frowning, furious, glowing, hot, hot-blooded, huffy, in a glow, in a pet, in a tiff, incensed, indignant, indignantly, inflamed, irate, ireful, mad, pissed off, red-hot, snappish, sore, vexed, wild, wroth), kıpkırmızı (aglow, bright red, crimson, ruddy), ateşli (aglow, ardent, armed, burning, eager, enthusiastic, febrile, fervent, fevered, feverish, fierce, flamboyant, flaming, gut, hectic, het up, hot, impassioned, in a glow, mettled, mettlesome, passionate, perfervid, racy, red-hot, skittish, sulphurous, sultry, torrid, vehement, zealous), ateşlenmiş, ateş gibi (hardworking, igneous, very hot), atılgan (adventuresome, aggressive, bold, brash, dare devil, enterprising, Hardy, reckless, venturesome). (various references)

Ukrainian

вогненний (igneous, lurid, vulcanic), запальний (choleric, explosive, gingery, hard-nosed, hasty, heated, hot, hot tempered, hot-blooded, hot-brained, hotheaded, inflammable, inflammatory, ireful, ornery, passionate, peppery, quick tempered, short tempered, spunky, testy), палкий (ardent, darling, eager, earnest, ebullient, fervent, high-spirited, hot-blooded, perfervid, rousing, warm, warm blooded, zealous). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sôi nổi (ardent, ardently, bean, bean-fed, effervescent, feverish, hectic, hot-blooded, hot-spririted, keen, mettled, mettlesome, passionate, rousing, vehement), như bốc lửa, ngụt cháy, nóng như lửa dễ cháy, hung hăng hăng, dễ nổi giận (irascible), dễ cáu (bilious, biliously, irascible, nervy, passionate, quick-tempered, rambunctious, raspy, waspish), dễ bắt lửa (ignitable, ignitible, tindery), bốc cháy. (various references)

Welsh

terwyn (ardent), tanllyd, tanbaid (brilliant, fervent, hot), eirias (burning, glowing). (various references)

empyros. (various references)

fervens, fervidus, flammeum, fraglans, fraglantia, ignea, igneae, igneas, ignei, igneorum, igneos, igneum, igneus, impirius, incensa, incensae, incensi, incenso, incensorum, incensum, incensumque. (various references)

fier. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Misspellings

"Fiery" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aiery, Fabry, Faegri, fairey, Farey, Fayery, feary, Febry, Feery, fehertys, feier, feira, feire, feirey, feirie, feiry, feiy, ferfy, fery, fiefy, fieny, fier, fiera, Fiere, fierey, fieri, fierie, fiero, fierre, fierry, fierys, fifery, fiiry, fikey, Fikri, filegry, fior, Firby, firely, firey, firy, fitry, fiury, fleery, forey, fuery, kirey, virey. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: reify.

-1 letter: fire, reif, rife.

-2 letters: fer, fey, fie, fir, fry, ire, ref, rei, rif, rye.

-3 letters: ef, er, if, re, ye.

+1 letter: aerify, ferity, finery, rifely, verify.

+2 letters: briefly, certify, fierily, firefly, fishery, flytier, metrify, perfidy, petrify, rectify, reedify, reunify, riflery, terrify, verbify, versify.

+3 letters: esterify, etherify, farriery, feracity, ferocity, ferrying, fervidly, fiercely, fireclay, flickery, flytiers, freakily, frenzily, friendly, frippery, furriery, gentrify, irefully, prettify, recodify, refinery, reflying, refrying, reifying, remodify, renotify, repacify, repurify, resinify, reverify, revivify, typifier.