conflagrant
/kɒnˈfleɪɡɹənt/
conflagrant adjective: brilliantly burning; of or resembling a conflagration; intensely blazing.
Adjective
conflagrant (comparative more conflagrant, superlative most conflagrant)
- Brilliantly burning; of or resembling a conflagration; intensely blazing.
- I would have cast me into molten glass
To cool me, when I enter'd; so intense
Rag'd the conflagrant mass.c. 1805-1814, Dante Alighieri, Henry Francis Cary (translator), (The Divine Comedy, The Vision; or, Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise, of Dante Alighieri (Volume II), J. Barfield, Taylor and Hessey, page... - Have you beheld the flashes from conflagrant dwellings, burnishing with angry beams the high vault of heaven? Ah! and did you descry the dear form of infant woe, and catch, with listening ear, the last bitter groan which escaped the angry billows of the ocean of flames?1821, The Christian Intelligencer 1821-09: Volume 1, Issue 1, Open Court Publishing Company, page 29
- I would have cast me into molten glass
Forms of conflagrant
| comparative | more conflagrant |
|---|---|
| superlative | most conflagrant |
Origin of conflagrant
From the Latin cōnflagrāns (oblique stem: cōnflagrant-), present active participle of cōnflagrō.
Questions about conflagrant
- What does conflagrant mean?
- Conflagrant means brilliantly burning; of or resembling a conflagration; intensely blazing.
- What part of speech is conflagrant?
- Conflagrant is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce conflagrant?
- Conflagrant is pronounced /kɒnˈfleɪɡɹənt/.
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