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fiery
/ˈfaɪɚi/
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What does fiery mean?
adjective
- Of or relating to fire.
- Burning or glowing.
- Inflammable or easily ignited.
More meanings (5)
adjective
- Having the colour of fire.
- Hot or inflamed.
- Tempestuous or emotionally volatile; sulfurous.
- Spirited or filled with emotion.
- Having the capillaries contracted due to stress at time of slaughter, causing blood to not drain properly.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈfaɪɚi/
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Whole sheets of water from the clouds are sent, Which, hissing thro’ the planks, the flames prevent, And stop the fiery pest.
He was brave and daring, strong in person, fiery in spirit, yet kind and true in his affections, earnest in his doctrines.
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It is singular to see the numbers of orange and olive growers who choose to live so near to the "fiery element."
In his dream he found himself with his army near the fiery furnace in the valley into which Abraham had been cast.
Nothing, think you, but the fruit harvest and the vintage is in the fiery, flushing luster of Antares and the ominous Scorpion?