fiery
/ˈfaɪəɹi/ adjective C1- Of or relating to fire.
- Burning or glowing.
- Inflammable or easily ignited.
- Having the colour of fire.
- Hot or inflamed.
- Tempestuous or emotionally volatile; sulfurous. · a fiery temper
- Spirited or filled with emotion.
- Having the capillaries contracted due to stress at time of slaughter, causing blood to not drain properly.
Comparative fierier · Superlative fieriest
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A frosty, fiery sleepy-head;
There were rosy bleeding-hearts and great splendid crimson peonies; white, fragrant narcissi and thorny, sweet Scotch roses; pink and blue and white columbines and lilac-tinted Bouncing Bets; clumps of southernwood and ribbon grass and mint; purple Adam-and-Eve, daffodils, and masses of sweet clover white with its delicate, fragrant, feathery sprays; scarlet lightning that shot its fiery lances over prim white musk-flowers; a garden it was where sunshine lingered and bees hummed, and winds, beguiled into loitering, purred and rustled.
She was of Welsh blood, fiery and passionate.
Sherlock Holmes, one day in the autumn of last year and found him in deep conversation with a very stout, florid-faced, elderly gentleman with fiery red hair.
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