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all-fire

all-fire adjective: extreme or intense in degree.

Adjective

all-fire (not comparable)

  1. (informal) Extreme or intense in degree.
    • If you were not in such an all-fire hurry to get out of there, you would not have forgotten your purse.

Adverb

all-fire (not comparable)

  1. (informal) To an intense degree.
    • If she's so all-fire lonely, why doesn't she ever leave her dorm room and actually meet people?

Questions about all-fire

What does all-fire mean?
All-fire means extreme or intense in degree.
What part of speech is all-fire?
All-fire can be an adjective or an adverb.

Words near all-fire in the dictionary

  1. All-Father
  2. All-Fathers
  3. all-female
  4. all-figure number
  5. all-figure numbers
  6. all-fire
  7. all-fired
  8. all-firedly
  9. all-fours
  10. all-gender
  11. all-girls

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