| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| ADJECTIVE: | 1. Compelling immediate attention: crying, dire, emergent, exigent, imperative, instant, pressing, urgent. See BIG. 2. On fire: ablaze, afire, aflame, alight2, conflagrant, fiery, flaming. Idioms: in a blaze, in flames. See HOT. 3. Characterized by intense emotion and activity: fervid, fevered, feverish, heated, hectic. See EXCITE, FEELINGS, HOT. 4. Marked by much heat: ardent, baking, blistering, boiling, broiling, fiery, heated, hot, red-hot, roasting, scalding, scorching, searing, sizzling, sultry, sweltering, torrid. See HOT. 5. Fired with intense feeling: ardent, blazing, dithyrambic, fervent, fervid, fiery, flaming, glowing, heated, hot-blooded, impassioned, passionate, perfervid, red-hot, scorching, torrid. See FEELINGS.
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