Synonyms for blazing

Grammar : Adj

Spell : bley-zing

Phonetic Transcription : ˈbleɪ zɪŋ

Définition of blazing

Origin : late 14c., "shining," also "vehement," present participle adjective from blaze (v.1). As a mild or euphemistic epithet, attested from 1888 (no doubt connected with the blazes in colloquial sense of "Hell").

adj on fire

Example sentences :

There is a coolness amid all the heat, a mildness in the blazing noon.
Extract from : « The Old Manse (From "Mosses From An Old Manse") » by Nathaniel Hawthorne

But was it not a little hard upon me, to be kept from blazing on a Sunday?
Extract from : « Clarissa, Volume 1 (of 9) » by Samuel Richardson

Her eyes were blazing with an anger the more fierce in that some of it was reaction.
Extract from : « The Leopard Woman » by Stewart Edward White

The day was blazing hot, and there was n't a cloud to be seen.
Extract from : « The Works of Whittier, Volume V (of VII) » by John Greenleaf Whittier

This was on the evening before, while they sat by the blazing fire in the cabin.
Extract from : « With Trapper Jim in the North Woods » by Lawrence J. Leslie

He slipped it out of its frame and tossed it on top of the blazing letters.
Extract from : « The Greater Inclination » by Edith Wharton

I found them seated round a blazing fire waiting for my father.
Extract from : « Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood » by George MacDonald

No beast will attack mankind when protected by a blazing torch.
Extract from : « Classic Myths » by Mary Catherine Judd

We sat by a big, blazing fire and ate and enjoyed ourselves in spite of it.
Extract from : « The Long Labrador Trail » by Dillon Wallace

It seemed as if nothing could exist in that blazing, screaming hell.
Extract from : « Slaves of Mercury » by Nat Schachner

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