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flameworthy

flameworthy adjective: deserving of being subjected to or engulfed by flames.

Adjective

flameworthy (comparative more flameworthy, superlative most flameworthy)

  1. Deserving of being subjected to or engulfed by flames
    • When Lord Worcester — shrewd fellow, — hinted at steam and gas, he was scouted by the gossips as presumptuous; yea, and so were Lord Liverpool and Mr. Winsor; Socrates and Galileo were most flameworthy heretics, for having seen certain truths too soon; […]1851, Martin Farquhar Tupper, The Complete Works of Martin F. Tupper in Four Volumes, page 216

Forms of flameworthy

comparativemore flameworthy
superlativemost flameworthy

Origin of flameworthy

From flame + -worthy.

Questions about flameworthy

What does flameworthy mean?
Flameworthy means deserving of being subjected to or engulfed by flames.
What part of speech is flameworthy?
Flameworthy is an adjective.

Words near flameworthy in the dictionary

  1. flameworked
  2. flameworker
  3. flameworkers
  4. flameworking
  5. flameworks
  6. flameworthy
  7. flamey
  8. flamfew
  9. flamfews
  10. flamiche
  11. flamiches

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