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flaming [ˈfleɪmɪŋ] adj
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 flamingly adv ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
flaming adjective 1. burning, blazing, fiery, ignited, red, brilliant, raging, glowing, red-hot, ablaze, in flames, afire A group followed carrying flaming torches. 2. bright, brilliant, glowing, blazing, dazzling, vivid He stroked back the mass of flaming red hair from her face. Translations flaming [ˈfleɪmɪŋ] adj (= blazing) → ardent(e) (= bright) [red, orange] → flamboyant(e) He has flaming red hair → Il a les cheveux d'un roux flamboyant. (mainly British) (= confounded) → satané(e) > before n flaming adj → brennend, lodernd; (fig) colour → leuchtend; rage → hell; passion → glühend; he has flaming red hair → er hat feuerrotes Haar; she was absolutely flaming (Brit inf: = angry) → sie kochte (vor Wut) (inf); to have a flaming row (with somebody) → sich (mit jdm) streiten, dass die Fetzen fliegen (inf) (Brit inf: = bloody) → verdammt (inf), → Scheiß- (inf); it’s a flaming nuisance → Mensch, das ist vielleicht ein Mist (inf); it’s a flaming waste of time → das ist eine verdammte Zeitverschwendung (inf); it was there all the flaming time → Mensch or Scheiße, das war die ganze Zeit da (inf); who does he flaming well think he is? → verdammt noch mal, für wen hält der sich eigentlich? (inf) flaming [ˈfleɪmɪŋ] adj a. (red, orange) → acceso/a b. (Brit) (fam) (furious) → furibondo/a, furioso/a c. (Brit) (fam) (damn) → maledetto/a flaming [ˈfleɪmɪŋ] adj a. (red, orange) → acceso/a b. (Brit) (fam) (furious) → furibondo/a, furioso/a c. (Brit) (fam) (damn) → maledetto/a How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| His seeming rescue by a votaress of the high priestess of the sun had been but a part of the mimicry of their heathen ceremony--the sun looking down upon him through the opening at the top of the court had claimed him as his own, and the priestess had come from the inner temple to save him from the polluting hands of worldlings--to save him as a human offering to their flaming deity. It had occurred towards midnight of the twelfth; and the spectroscope, to which he had at once resorted, indicated a mass of flaming gas, chiefly hydrogen, moving with an enormous velocity towards this earth. --Running fires will I one day make of them, and heralds with flaming tongues:-- |
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