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Definition of "flaming" []

  • On fire; ablaze. (adjective)
  • Resembling a flame in brilliance, color, or form: flaming autumn leaves. (adjective)
  • Intense; ardent: flaming passions. (adjective)
  • Informal Used as an intensive: a flaming liberal. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "flaming" in a sentence
  • "For what you call your flaming zeal, I do not in the least object to it."
  • "He was flaming from the fresh reading of the ripest thought he had expressed, and her verdict stunned him."
  • "Came the lightning, before us, behind us, on every side, bathing us in flaming minutes at a time."