Fire is something very dangerous and should be taken very seriously. In literal meaning, it is the rapid oxidation of a material in an exothermic chemical process of combustion, releasing heat, bright light and by-products like char.
Having learned what is fire, let’s see some fire adjectives and vocabulary words related to fire and heat.
Adjectives Words to Describe Fire
Today we’ll have a look at around 50 most used words to describe the hot nature of fire like lava, flame, livid, sparkle, searing etc.
- Beam: emit light; be bright, as of the sun or a light
- Blazing: burns fiercely or brightly.
- Bonfire: a large open-air fire used for burning rubbish or as part of a celebration.
- Burning: very keenly or deeply felt; intense. / very hot or bright.
- Burst Out: erupt or intensify suddenly
- Campfire: an open-air fire in a camp
- Charring: become blackened as a result of partial burning.
- Cinder: a small piece of partly burnt coal or wood that has stopped giving off flames but still has the combustible matter in it
- Clammy: unpleasantly cool and humid
- Coals: a hot glowing or smoldering fragment of wood or coal left from a fire
- Combustion: a process in which a substance reacts with oxygen to give heat and light
- Conflagration: a very intense and uncontrolled fire
- Coruscate: reflect brightly
- Devouring: When the heat burns the surrounding quickly
- Element: an abstract part of something
- Embers: a hot glowing or smouldering fragment of wood or coal left from a fire
- Emblazoned: conspicuously inscribe or display a design on.
- Explode: burst or shatter violently and noisily as a result of rapid combustion, excessive internal pressure, or other process.
- Explode: burst outward, usually with noise
- Flame: a hot glowing body of ignited gas that is generated by something on fire.
- Flare: a sudden brief burst of bright flame or light.
- Flash: a sudden intense burst of radiant energy
- Flicker: flash intermittently
- Fuel: material such as coal, gas, or oil that is burned to produce heat or power.
- Fumes: an amount of gas or vapor that smells strongly or is dangerous to inhale
- Glare: shine with a strong or dazzling light.
- Gleam: shine brightly, especially with reflected light.
- Glow: a steady even light without flames
- Hearth: the floor of a fireplace.
- Heat: the presence of heat
- Heatwave: a prolonged period of abnormally hot weather.
- Ignite: start to burn or burst into flames
- Illuminate: make lighter or brighter
- Incandescence: emission by a hot body of radiation that makes it visible
- Inferno: a very intense and uncontrolled fire
- Jet: of the blackest black; similar to the color of jet or coal
- Lava: hot molten or semi-fluid rock erupted from a volcano or fissure
- Livid: dark bluish-grey in color
- Oxidation: the process or result of oxidizing or being oxidized.
- Pyre: wood heaped for burning a dead body as a funeral rite
- Radiate: cause to be seen by emitting light as if in rays
- Red Hot: a frankfurter served hot on a bun
- Scalding : very hot; burning.
- Scintillate: emit or reflect light in a flickering manner
- Scorching: hot and dry enough to burn or parch a surface
- Searing: extremely hot or intense.
- Sparkle: shine brightly with flashes of light
- Tinder: dry, flammable material, such as wood or paper, used for lighting a fire.
- Volcanic: bursting out or liable to burst out violently
- Warmth: the quality of having a moderate degree of heat
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