Synonyms for fire
Another word for fire is firing, flame or flaming. Below are 15 synonyms and 30 related words across 12 senses.
Also searched as: firer, fires.
1. noun: the event of something burning (often destructive)
2. noun: the act of firing weapons or artillery at an enemy
- firing synonyms
3. noun: the process of combustion of inflammable materials producing heat and light and (often) smoke
- flame synonyms
- flaming synonyms
4. noun: a fireplace in which a relatively small fire is burning
5. noun: once thought to be one of four elements composing the universe (Empedocles), associated with the humour bile
6. noun: feelings of great warmth and intensity
- fervor synonyms
- fervour
- ardor
- ardour
- fervency
- fervidness
7. noun: fuel that is burning and is used as a means for cooking
8. noun: a severe trial
9. noun: intense adverse criticism
- attack synonyms
- blast synonyms
- flak synonyms
- flack
10. verb: start firing a weapon
- open fire
11. verb: cause to go off
- discharge synonyms
12. verb: bake in a kiln so as to harden
Related words
Broader, narrower and sibling terms from the same WordNet tree. They aren't interchangeable, but one of them is often the word you wanted.
- natural event
- happening
- forest fire
- brush fire
- occurrence synonyms
- prairie fire
- bonfire
- inferno synonyms
- backfire synonyms
- campfire
- smudge
- conflagration
- smolder
- smoulder
- grassfire
- call fire
- cover synonyms
- direct fire
- supporting fire
- friendly fire
- battery synonyms
- covering fire
- scheduled fire
- observed fire
- destruction fire
- searching fire
- registration fire
- preparation fire
- distributed fire
- burning synonyms
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Questions people ask
What is another word for fire?
You can say firing, flame, flaming, fervor or fervour instead of fire. Which one fits depends on the sense; the first sense above means "the event of something burning (often destructive)".
What is the opposite of fire?
WordNet lists no direct antonym for fire; the nearest opposites depend on which sense you mean.
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