flaming
/ˈfleɪmɪŋ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.43 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Very enthusiastic or passionate.
Example Sentences
- "The flaming debris kept the firefighter well back, and the sparks threatened the neighborhood."
- "On Christmas Day, the pudding was served piping hot, with flaming brandy on top."
- "In the evening she reveled in the flaming sunsets, with their spectacular orange glows that seemed to set the whole world on fire."
- "Edward was twelve when he had seen his first painting by Titian of a woman with flowing red locks. Since that day, he had always wanted to find a model he could paint who possessed the flaming hair that was Titian's trademark."
- "The sun had not yet risen, but the splendour in the East, lighting the sky with wondrous colourings of gold and crimson and green, announced the speedy coming of that god which many of the inhabitants of Baalbek still worshipped. The temples and palaces of the city took their tints from the flaming sky, and Haziddin, the ambassador, thought he had never seen anything so beautiful, notwithstanding the eulogy Mahomet himself had pronounced upon his own metropolis of Damascus."
- "I like my beer cold, my TV loud, and my homosexuals fa-laaaaming."
Etymology
From the German surname for someone from Flanders, from Middle High German vlaeminc, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *flaumaz. See Flanders, Fleming, and the variant Flemming.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: -, vlaeminc, *flaumaz
Usage
- Colloquial
- Australian usage
- British usage
- Countable
- Uncountable