- burning
- burning [adj1] blazing, flashing afire, aflame, alight, blistering, broiling, conflagrant, enkindled, fiery, flaming, flaring, gleaming, glowing, heated, hot, ignited, illuminated, incandescent, in flames, kindled, on fire, oxidizing, red-hot*, scorching, searing, sizzling, smoking, smouldering, torrid, white-hot*; concepts 485,605 —Ant. cold, cool burning [adj2] fervent, excited all-consuming, ardent, blazing, eager, earnest, fervid, feverish, frantic, frenzied, heated, hectic, impassioned, intense, passionate, red-hot*, vehement, whitehot*, zealous; concept 403 —Ant. apathetic, cold, cool, unexcited, unimportant burning [adj3] stinging, painful acrid, biting, caustic, irritating, painful, piercing, prickling, pungent, reeking, sharp, smarting, tingling; concepts 314,537 burning [adj4] important acute, clamant, clamorous, compelling, critical, crucial, crying, dire, essential, exigent, imperative, importunate, instant, pressing, significant, urgent, vital; concept 568 —Ant. unimportant
New thesaurus. 2014.