burning

adjective

burn·ing ˈbər-niŋ How to pronounce burning (audio)

: being on fire

: ardent, intense

burning enthusiasm

: affecting with or as if with heat

a burning fever

: resembling that produced by a burn

a burning sensation on the tongue

: of fundamental importance : urgent

one of the burning issues of our time

burningly

ˈbər-niŋ-lē How to pronounce burning (audio)

adverb

Example Sentences

She stared at the burning embers for a long time. a burning hatred of corruption The medicine produced a burning sensation on my tongue. Symptoms include itchy, burning eyes.

Recent Examples on the Web Three firefighters were killed in January when a burning, vacant home collapsed.

Giacomo Bologna, Baltimore Sun, 6 Sep. 2022 Selena Gomez made an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live this week to promote her Hulu hit Only Murders in the Building, but Jimmy Kimmel soon brought the conversation around to his own burning question: What was Britney Spears' wedding like?

Aimée Lutkin, ELLE, 19 June 2022 This hand-poured, clean-burning soy candle will scent your apartment for up to 60 hours.

Bon Appétit, 26 Apr. 2022 A few hundred yards away, the fire brigade was finishing hosing down the burning warehouse of a company that made thermal insulation materials.

Yaroslav Trofimov, WSJ, 22 Apr. 2022 All 22 crew members were rescued, and the ship was left adrift and burning.

Sebastian Blanco, Car and Driver, 18 Feb. 2022 And this clean-burning, non-pooling candle redolent of spicy peppercorn, earthy vetiver, and intoxicating gardenia, evokes Medina’s old-world charms: exploring spice markets, getting lost in the Medina, and strolling through the Casbah.

Katie Chang, Forbes, 30 Jan. 2022 Even those of the opinion there wasn't a burning need for a redo -- reimagined or otherwise -- should conclude there's a place for this one too.

Brian Lowry, CNN, 3 Dec. 2021 In a separate vein, Thomas has responded passionately to America's history of lynching and cross-burning.

Joan Biskupic, CNN, 24 Oct. 2021 See More

burning 1 of 2

adjective

as in flaming

being on fire a firefighter must be that rare soul who rushes into a burning house, not away from it

Synonyms & Similar Words

Relevance

flaming
blazing
smoldering
burned
flickering
lit
ignited
burnt
aflame
afire
combusting
ablaze
charred
glowing
inflamed
kindled
fiery
alight
enflamed
lighted
scorching
flaring
searing
conflagrant
live
scorched
roasting
hot
smouldering
aglow
scalding
broiling
seared
sizzling
singed
incinerated
piping hot
red-hot

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

extinguished
dead
smothered
choked
stamped (out)
quenched
suffocated
doused
damped
snuffed (out)
dowsed

as in boiling

having a notably high temperature a burning sauna seems like a welcome retreat after a day of shoveling snow

Synonyms & Similar Words

boiling
searing
scorching
hot
molten
red
roasting
blazing
scalding
broiling
warmed
sweltering
fiery
heated
warm
superheated
fervent
white-hot
glowing
fervid
torrid
ardent
sultry
piping hot
ultrahot
red-hot
seething
sizzling
overheated
flushed
inflamed
igneous
toasty
enflamed
feverish
tropical
reheated
steamy
snug
warmish
muggy
canicular
summery
summerlike

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

freezing
cold
frozen
icy
arctic
iced
bitter
glacial
frigid
cool
chilly
chill
snowy
frosty
cooled
snappy
nippy
shivering
ice-cold
wintry
bone-chilling
subzero
coldish
algid
unheated
chilled
wintery
coolish
refrigerated
subfreezing
numb
benumbed
blizzardly

as in warm

having or expressing great depth of feeling the burning enthusiasm of that candidate's campaign workers

Synonyms & Similar Words

warm
passionate
charged
blazing
passional
glowing
fervent
flaming
intense
emotional
fiery
religious
ardent
incandescent
impassioned
superheated
enthusiastic
demonstrative
feverish
on fire
perfervid
fervid
torrid
vehement
red-hot
hot-blooded
gushing
warm-blooded
sentimental
sugary
sloppy
obsessed
zealous
maudlin
mushy
mawkish
saccharine
gushy
overheated
schmaltzy
melodramatic
histrionic
sappy
gung ho
infatuated
uninhibited
enamored
keen
orgiastic
unrestrained
frenzied
overexcited
unreserved
overemotional

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

cold
dry
cool
dispassionate
impassive
objective
detached
impersonal
unemotional
emotionless
reserved
undemonstrative

as in pressing

needing immediate attention once again the media ignored the burning issues and focused on fluff

Synonyms & Similar Words

pressing
urgent
acute
crying
intense
critical
emergent
compelling
instant
desperate
dire
immediate
serious
imperative
exigent
overriding
importunate
demanding
clamant
extreme
insistent
dangerous
explosive
imperious
hazardous
severe
crucial
grave
necessitous
unstable
vital
perilous
life-or-death
precarious
life-and-death

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

minor
incidental
negligible
trivial
safe
stable
noncritical
unimportant
nonurgent
low-pressure
nonthreatening

burning

2 of 2

verb

present participle of burn

as in glowing

to be on fire especially brightly all evening long we just sat there, contentedly watching the Yule log burn

Synonyms & Similar Words

glowing
flaming
blazing
flickering
combusting
smoldering
firing
shining
igniting
gleaming
melting
kindling
scorching
charring
cooking
roasting
baking
broiling
going up in flames
enkindling
sweltering
deflagrating
sputtering
wavering
flashing
smouldering
sparking
glinting
catching
guttering
radiating
glistening
shimmering
glittering
brightening
glimmering
sparkling
glaring
beaming
twinkling
flaring (up)
scintillating
lighting (up)
beating (down)

as in scorching

to set (something) on fire it is not a good idea to try to burn old papers in the sink

Synonyms & Similar Words

scorching
torching
igniting
kindling
lighting
firing
inflaming
enkindling
enflaming
immolating
baking
illumining
incinerating
charring
cooking
illuminating
broiling
deflagrating
searing
stoking
lightening
cremating
rekindling
ashing
scalding
relighting
frizzling
kilning
brightening
reigniting
radiating
irradiating
setting off
scathing
banking

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

extinguishing
quenching
choking
suffocating
smothering
dousing
darkening
blackening
stamping (out)
obscuring
dowsing
snuffing (out)
putting out
dimming
dulling

as in steaming

to be excited or emotionally stirred up with anger he came home burning with anger because of a reprimand at work

Synonyms & Similar Words

steaming
raging
boiling
storming
shaking
seething
foaming
sizzling
fuming
smoldering
rankling
seeing red
smouldering
fulminating
agitating
enflaming
inflaming
ranting
raving
convulsing
bristling
chafing
stewing
roiling
fretting
flaring (up)

as in blazing

to shine with a bright harsh light the bright streetlight outside our motel room burned all night long

Synonyms & Similar Words

blazing
glowing
flaring
flaming
flashing
glaring
gleaming
beating
radiating
glancing
sparkling
glistening
glinting
shimmering
glittering
blinding
beaming
twinkling
glimmering
dazzling
glistering
scintillating
bedazzling
dazing

as in tricking

to cause to believe what is untrue he's been burned before, so he's careful to double-check such claims now

Synonyms & Similar Words

tricking
fooling
deceiving
stinging
catching
teasing
kidding
juggling
gaffing
having
gammoning
misleading
suckering
misguiding
duping
humbugging
deluding
cheating
sucking in
stringing along
gulling
hoaxing
taking in
misinforming
cozening
conning
snookering
snowing
sticking
beguiling
bluffing
bamboozling
buffaloing
hornswoggling
bleeding
spoofing
having on
hoodwinking
faking out
pulling one's leg
pulling the wool over one's eyes
doing a number on
leading one up the garden path
defrauding
swindling
leading one down the garden path
fleecing
hustling
putting on
squeezing
mulcting
chiseling
shortchanging
diddling
rooking
skinning
euchring
flimflamming
chiselling

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

exposing
uncovering
revealing
debunking
disclosing
undeceiving
telling
unmasking
divulging
unveiling
showing up
disabusing
uncloaking
disillusioning
disenchanting

as in consuming

to make complete use of heedlessly burning the country's resources without any concern for future generations

Synonyms & Similar Words

consuming
spending
draining
exhausting
reducing
absorbing
eating
depleting
devouring
using
emptying
expending
decreasing
wasting
playing out
drawing down
diminishing
lowering
using up
weakening
running out of
dwindling
downsizing
undermining
blowing
lessening
crippling
bankrupting
sapping
impoverishing
debilitating
disabling
dissipating
abating
guzzling
squandering
enfeebling
drying up
throwing away
de-escalating
running through
misspending
cleaning (out)
lavishing
frittering (away)

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

increasing
replacing
renewing
enlarging
augmenting
enforcing
reinforcing
repairing
strengthening
rebuilding
saving
restoring
preserving
reviving
conserving
bolstering
reenforcing
fortifying

单词	burning
释义	burning adjective burn·ing ˈbər-niŋ 1 a : being on fire b : ardent, intense burning enthusiasm 2 a : affecting with or as if with heat a burning fever b : resembling that produced by a burn a burning sensation on the tongue 3 : of fundamental importance : urgent one of the burning issues of our time burningly ˈbər-niŋ-lē adverb Synonyms ablaze afire aflame alight [chiefly British] blazing combusting conflagrant fiery flaming ignited inflamed enflamed kindled lit lighted See all Synonyms & Antonyms Example Sentences She stared at the burning embers for a long time. a burning hatred of corruption The medicine produced a burning sensation on my tongue. Symptoms include itchy, burning eyes. Recent Examples on the Web Three firefighters were killed in January when a burning, vacant home collapsed. Giacomo Bologna, Baltimore Sun, 6 Sep. 2022 Selena Gomez made an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live this week to promote her Hulu hit Only Murders in the Building, but Jimmy Kimmel soon brought the conversation around to his own burning question: What was Britney Spears' wedding like? Aimée Lutkin, ELLE, 19 June 2022 This hand-poured, clean-burning soy candle will scent your apartment for up to 60 hours. Bon Appétit, 26 Apr. 2022 A few hundred yards away, the fire brigade was finishing hosing down the burning warehouse of a company that made thermal insulation materials. Yaroslav Trofimov, WSJ, 22 Apr. 2022 All 22 crew members were rescued, and the ship was left adrift and burning. Sebastian Blanco, Car and Driver, 18 Feb. 2022 And this clean-burning, non-pooling candle redolent of spicy peppercorn, earthy vetiver, and intoxicating gardenia, evokes Medina’s old-world charms: exploring spice markets, getting lost in the Medina, and strolling through the Casbah. Katie Chang, Forbes, 30 Jan. 2022 Even those of the opinion there wasn't a burning need for a redo -- reimagined or otherwise -- should conclude there's a place for this one too. Brian Lowry, CNN, 3 Dec. 2021 In a separate vein, Thomas has responded passionately to America's history of lynching and cross-burning. Joan Biskupic, CNN, 24 Oct. 2021 See More Word History First Known Use before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a Phrases Containing burning ears are burning burning bush burning ghat burning hot fat-burning feel one's ears burning ears are burning burning bush burning ghat burning hot fat-burning feel one's ears burning Medical Definition burning 1 of 2 adjective burn·ing ˈbər-niŋ 1 : affecting with or as if with heat a burning fever 2 : resembling that produced by a burn a burning sensation on the tongue burning 2 of 2 noun : a sensation of being on fire or excessively heated gastric burning burning 1 of 2 adjective 1 as in flaming being on fire a firefighter must be that rare soul who rushes into a burning house, not away from it Synonyms & Similar Words Relevance flaming blazing smoldering burned flickering lit ignited burnt aflame afire combusting ablaze charred glowing inflamed kindled fiery alight enflamed lighted scorching flaring searing conflagrant live scorched roasting hot smouldering aglow scalding broiling seared sizzling singed incinerated piping hot red-hot Antonyms & Near Antonyms extinguished dead smothered choked stamped (out) quenched suffocated doused damped snuffed (out) dowsed See More 2 as in boiling having a notably high temperature a burning sauna seems like a welcome retreat after a day of shoveling snow Synonyms & Similar Words boiling searing scorching hot molten red roasting blazing scalding broiling warmed sweltering fiery heated warm superheated fervent white-hot glowing fervid torrid ardent sultry piping hot ultrahot red-hot seething sizzling overheated flushed inflamed igneous toasty enflamed feverish tropical reheated steamy snug warmish muggy canicular summery summerlike Antonyms & Near Antonyms freezing cold frozen icy arctic iced bitter glacial frigid cool chilly chill snowy frosty cooled snappy nippy shivering ice-cold wintry bone-chilling subzero coldish algid unheated chilled wintery coolish refrigerated subfreezing numb benumbed blizzardly See More 3 as in warm having or expressing great depth of feeling the burning enthusiasm of that candidate's campaign workers Synonyms & Similar Words warm passionate charged blazing passional glowing fervent flaming intense emotional fiery religious ardent incandescent impassioned superheated enthusiastic demonstrative feverish on fire perfervid fervid torrid vehement red-hot hot-blooded gushing warm-blooded sentimental sugary sloppy obsessed zealous maudlin mushy mawkish saccharine gushy overheated schmaltzy melodramatic histrionic sappy gung ho infatuated uninhibited enamored keen orgiastic unrestrained frenzied overexcited unreserved overemotional Antonyms & Near Antonyms cold dry cool dispassionate impassive objective detached impersonal unemotional emotionless reserved undemonstrative See More 4 as in pressing needing immediate attention once again the media ignored the burning issues and focused on fluff Synonyms & Similar Words pressing urgent acute crying intense critical emergent compelling instant desperate dire immediate serious imperative exigent overriding importunate demanding clamant extreme insistent dangerous explosive imperious hazardous severe crucial grave necessitous unstable vital perilous life-or-death precarious life-and-death Antonyms & Near Antonyms minor incidental negligible trivial safe stable noncritical unimportant nonurgent low-pressure nonthreatening See More burning 2 of 2 verb present participle of burn 1 as in glowing to be on fire especially brightly all evening long we just sat there, contentedly watching the Yule log burn Synonyms & Similar Words glowing flaming blazing flickering combusting smoldering firing shining igniting gleaming melting kindling scorching charring cooking roasting baking broiling going up in flames enkindling sweltering deflagrating sputtering wavering flashing smouldering sparking glinting catching guttering radiating glistening shimmering glittering brightening glimmering sparkling glaring beaming twinkling flaring (up) scintillating lighting (up) beating (down) 2 as in scorching to set (something) on fire it is not a good idea to try to burn old papers in the sink Synonyms & Similar Words scorching torching igniting kindling lighting firing inflaming enkindling enflaming immolating baking illumining incinerating charring cooking illuminating broiling deflagrating searing stoking lightening cremating rekindling ashing scalding relighting frizzling kilning brightening reigniting radiating irradiating setting off scathing banking Antonyms & Near Antonyms extinguishing quenching choking suffocating smothering dousing darkening blackening stamping (out) obscuring dowsing snuffing (out) putting out dimming dulling See More 3 as in steaming to be excited or emotionally stirred up with anger he came home burning with anger because of a reprimand at work Synonyms & Similar Words steaming raging boiling storming shaking seething foaming sizzling fuming smoldering rankling seeing red smouldering fulminating agitating enflaming inflaming ranting raving convulsing bristling chafing stewing roiling fretting flaring (up) 4 as in blazing to shine with a bright harsh light the bright streetlight outside our motel room burned all night long Synonyms & Similar Words blazing glowing flaring flaming flashing glaring gleaming beating radiating glancing sparkling glistening glinting shimmering glittering blinding beaming twinkling glimmering dazzling glistering scintillating bedazzling dazing 5 as in tricking to cause to believe what is untrue he's been burned before, so he's careful to double-check such claims now Synonyms & Similar Words tricking fooling deceiving stinging catching teasing kidding juggling gaffing having gammoning misleading suckering misguiding duping humbugging deluding cheating sucking in stringing along gulling hoaxing taking in misinforming cozening conning snookering snowing sticking beguiling bluffing bamboozling buffaloing hornswoggling bleeding spoofing having on hoodwinking faking out pulling one's leg pulling the wool over one's eyes doing a number on leading one up the garden path defrauding swindling leading one down the garden path fleecing hustling putting on squeezing mulcting chiseling shortchanging diddling rooking skinning euchring flimflamming chiselling Antonyms & Near Antonyms exposing uncovering revealing debunking disclosing undeceiving telling unmasking divulging unveiling showing up disabusing uncloaking disillusioning disenchanting See More 6 as in consuming to make complete use of heedlessly burning the country's resources without any concern for future generations Synonyms & Similar Words consuming spending draining exhausting reducing absorbing eating depleting devouring using emptying expending decreasing wasting playing out drawing down diminishing lowering using up weakening running out of dwindling downsizing undermining blowing lessening crippling bankrupting sapping impoverishing debilitating disabling dissipating abating guzzling squandering enfeebling drying up throwing away de-escalating running through misspending cleaning (out) lavishing frittering (away) Antonyms & Near Antonyms increasing replacing renewing enlarging augmenting enforcing reinforcing repairing strengthening rebuilding saving restoring preserving reviving conserving bolstering reenforcing fortifying See More
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