Fiery

fiery
    adj 1: characterized by intense emotion; "ardent love"; "an
           ardent lover"; "a fervent desire to change society"; "a
           fervent admirer"; "fiery oratory"; "an impassioned
           appeal"; "a torrid love affair" [syn: {ardent},
           {fervent}, {fervid}, {fiery}, {impassioned}, {perfervid},
           {torrid}]
    2: like or suggestive of fire; "a fiery desert wind"; "an
       igneous desert atmosphere" [syn: {fiery}, {igneous}]
    3: very intense; "a fiery temper"; "flaming passions" [syn:
       {fiery}, {flaming}]
    

Fiery \Fi"er*y\ (? or ?), a. [Formerly written firy, fr. fire.]
   1. Consisting of, containing, or resembling, fire; as, the
      fiery gulf of Etna; a fiery appearance.
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            And fiery billows roll below.         --I. Watts.
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   2. Vehement; ardent; very active; impetuous.
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            Hath thy fiery heart so parched thine entrails?
                                                  --Shak.
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            The fiery spirit of his forefathers.  --W. Irwing.
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   3. Passionate; easily provoked; irritable.
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            You know the fiery quality of the duke. --Shak.
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   4. Unrestrained; fierce; mettlesome; spirited.
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            One curbed the fiery steed.           --Dryden.
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   5. heated by fire, or as if by fire; burning hot; parched;
      feverish. --Pope.
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            The sword which is made fiery.        --Hooker.
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   {Fiery cross}, a cross constructed of two firebrands, and
      pitched upon the point of a spear; formerly in Scotland
      borne by a runner as a signal for the clan to take up
      arms. --Sir W. Scott.
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212 Moby Thesaurus words for "fiery":
      Titian, Titian-red, abandoned, ablaze, accendible, afire, aflame,
      aglow, algetic, alight, angry, ardent, beany, blaring, blazing,
      boiling, boiling over, breathless, bricky, brilliant, broiling,
      burnable, burning, burning with excitement, cardinal, carmine,
      carnation, carnelian, cerise, chafed, cherry, cherry-colored,
      cherry-red, combustible, combustive, committed, conflagrant,
      conflagrative, cordial, crimson, damask, dedicated, delirious,
      devoted, devout, drunk, eager, earnest, edgy, emphatic,
      enthusiastic, excitable, excited, exciting, explosive, exuberant,
      faithful, fanatic, febrile, ferruginous, fervent, fervid,
      festering, fevered, feverish, feverous, fierce, fire-red, firelike,
      flame-colored, flame-red, flaming, flammable, flaring, flushed,
      furious, galled, glaring, gleaming, glowing, gules, hard-core,
      hasty, headlong, hearty, heated, hectic, het up, high-spirited,
      hot, hot-blooded, hot-tempered, hotheaded, hyperpyretic,
      hyperthermic, igneous, ignited, impassioned, impetuous, impulsive,
      in a fever, in earnest, in flames, in rut, incandescent,
      incarmined, inflamed, inflammable, infrared, intense, intent,
      intent on, intoxicated, irascible, iron-red, irritable, irritated,
      keen, lake-colored, laky, lateritious, lively, lobster-red, loyal,
      luminous, lurid, madcap, maroon, mettlesome, on fire, overheated,
      passionate, peppery, perfervid, port-wine, precipitate, provoking,
      puce, pyretic, pyric, quick, quick-tempered, radiant, rankling,
      raw, red, red-dyed, red-hot, red-looking, reddened, reddish,
      reddish-amber, reddish-brown, resolute, rubicund, rubiginous,
      rubric, rubricose, ruby, ruby-colored, ruby-red, ruddied, ruddy,
      rufescent, rufous, rust, rust-red, rusty, scalding, scarlet,
      scorching, seething, sensitive, serious, sexually excited,
      short-tempered, simmering, sincere, sizzling, smarting, sore,
      spirited, spunky, stammel, steaming, steamy, stimulating, stirring,
      stormy, tempestuous, tender, tile-red, tingling, tornadic, torrid,
      totally committed, touchy, unrestrained, urgent, vehement,
      vermilion, vigorous, vinaceous, violent, volcanic, warm, white-hot,
      wild, wine, wine-colored, wine-red, zealous