Below is a massive list of fire words — that is, words related to fire. The top 4 are: flame, blaze, burn and inferno. You can get the definition(s) of a word in the list below by tapping the question-mark icon next to it. The words at the top of the list are the ones most associated with fire, and as you go down the relatedness becomes more slight. By default, the words are sorted by relevance/relatedness, but you can also get the most common fire terms by using the menu below, and there’s also the option to sort the words alphabetically so you can get fire words starting with a particular letter. You can also filter the word list so it only shows words that are also related to another word of your choosing. So for example, you could enter «flame» and click «filter», and it’d give you words that are related to fire and flame.
You can highlight the terms by the frequency with which they occur in the written English language using the menu below. The frequency data is extracted from the English Wikipedia corpus, and updated regularly. If you just care about the words’ direct semantic similarity to fire, then there’s probably no need for this.
There are already a bunch of websites on the net that help you find synonyms for various words, but only a handful that help you find related, or even loosely associated words. So although you might see some synonyms of fire in the list below, many of the words below will have other relationships with fire — you could see a word with the exact opposite meaning in the word list, for example. So it’s the sort of list that would be useful for helping you build a fire vocabulary list, or just a general fire word list for whatever purpose, but it’s not necessarily going to be useful if you’re looking for words that mean the same thing as fire (though it still might be handy for that).
If you’re looking for names related to fire (e.g. business names, or pet names), this page might help you come up with ideas. The results below obviously aren’t all going to be applicable for the actual name of your pet/blog/startup/etc., but hopefully they get your mind working and help you see the links between various concepts. If your pet/blog/etc. has something to do with fire, then it’s obviously a good idea to use concepts or words to do with fire.
If you don’t find what you’re looking for in the list below, or if there’s some sort of bug and it’s not displaying fire related words, please send me feedback using this page. Thanks for using the site — I hope it is useful to you! 🐇
That’s about all the fire related words we’ve got! I hope this list of fire terms was useful to you in some way or another. The words down here at the bottom of the list will be in some way associated with fire, but perhaps tenuously (if you’ve currenly got it sorted by relevance, that is). If you have any feedback for the site, please share it here, but please note this is only a hobby project, so I may not be able to make regular updates to the site. Have a nice day! 🐉
- blaze
- bonfire
- heat
- inferno
- campfire
- coals
- combustion
- conflagration
- devouring
- element
- embers
- flames
- flare
- glow
- hearth
- holocaust
- incandescence
- luminosity
- oxidation
- phlogiston
- pyre
- scintillation
- scorching
- searing
- sparks
- tinder
- warmth
- flame and smoke
- hot spot
- rapid oxidation
- sea of flames
- up in smoke
- attack
- bombardment
- bombing
- explosion
- shelling
- bombarding
- cannonade
- cannonading
- crossfire
- fusillade
- hail
- round
- salvo
- sniping
- volley
- force
- heat
- light
- ardor
- brio
- dash
- drive
- eagerness
- energy
- enthusiasm
- excitement
- exhilaration
- fervency
- fervor
- ginger
- gusto
- heartiness
- impetuosity
- intensity
- life
- liveliness
- luster
- passion
- pep
- punch
- radiance
- scintillation
- snap
- sparkle
- spirit
- splendor
- starch
- verve
- vim
- virtuosity
- vivacity
- zeal
- zing
- zip
- calenture
- élan
- red heat
- white heat
- enkindle
- ignite
- kindle
- light
- put a match to
- set ablaze
- set aflame
- set alight
- set fire to
- set on fire
- start a fire
- touch off
- discharge
- explode
- hurl
- launch
- shoot
- cast
- eject
- fling
- heave
- loose
- pitch
- shell
- toss
- let off
- pull trigger
- set off
- touch off
- animate
- electrify
- enliven
- enthuse
- exalt
- galvanize
- heighten
- incite
- inflame
- inform
- inspire
- inspirit
- intensify
- intoxicate
- irritate
- provoke
- quicken
- rouse
- stir
- thrill
- impassion
- discharge
- drop
- expel
- oust
- sack
- terminate
- ax
- boot
- can
- eject
- give bum’s rush
- give marching orders
- give one notice
- give pink slip
- give the sack
- hand walking papers
- kick out
- lay off
- let one go
- pink slip
Roget’s 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
On this page you’ll find 316 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to fire, such as: blaze, bonfire, heat, inferno, campfire, and null.
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Things will likely get worse—or at least stay just as bad—and it will probably require continuous, expensive, year-round management to beat back future fire seasons like this.
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WORDS RELATED TO FIRE
- activate
- arouse
- cheer
- embolden
- encourage
- energize
- enliven
- exalt
- excite
- fire
- gladden
- hearten
- impel
- incite
- inform
- inspire
- inspirit
- instigate
- invigorate
- kindle
- liven
- make alive
- move
- quicken
- revive
- revivify
- rouse
- spark
- spur
- stimulate
- stir
- urge
- vitalize
- vivify
- avidity
- devotion
- eagerness
- earnestness
- feeling
- fervor
- fierceness
- fire
- gusto
- heat
- intensity
- jazz
- keenness
- oomph
- passion
- pep talk
- spirit
- vehemence
- verve
- warmth
- weakness
- zeal
- zest
- zing
- can
- cleaver
- discharge
- fire
- hatchet
- poll
- sack
- tomahawk
- boot
- bounce
- can
- cancel
- cut back
- discharge
- dispense with
- eliminate
- fire
- get rid of
- give a pink slip
- give the boot
- kick out
- lay off
- remove
- sack
- terminate
- throw out
- chops
- cuts
- cuts down
- falls
- hews
- chopping
- cutting
- cutting down
- falling
- hewing
Roget’s 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
Below is a list of words related to another word. You can click words for definitions. Sorry if there’s a few unusual suggestions! The algorithm isn’t perfect, but it does a pretty good job for common-ish words. Here’s the list of words that are related to another word:
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Words Related to ~term~
As you’ve probably noticed, words related to «term» are listed above. Hopefully the generated list of term related words above suit your needs.
P.S. There are some problems that I’m aware of, but can’t currently fix (because they are out of the scope of this project). The main one is that individual words can have many different senses (meanings), so when you search for a word like mean, the engine doesn’t know which definition you’re referring to («bullies are mean» vs. «what do you mean?», etc.), so consider that your search query for words like term may be a bit ambiguous to the engine in that sense, and the related terms that are returned may reflect this. You might also be wondering: What type of word is ~term~?
Also check out ~term~ words on relatedwords.io for another source of associations.
Related Words
Related Words runs on several different algorithms which compete to get their results higher in the list. One such algorithm uses word embedding to convert words into many dimensional vectors which represent their meanings. The vectors of the words in your query are compared to a huge database of of pre-computed vectors to find similar words. Another algorithm crawls through Concept Net to find words which have some meaningful relationship with your query. These algorithms, and several more, are what allows Related Words to give you… related words — rather than just direct synonyms.
As well as finding words related to other words, you can enter phrases and it should give you related words and phrases, so long as the phrase/sentence you entered isn’t too long. You will probably get some weird results every now and then — that’s just the nature of the engine in its current state.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used to bring you this list of term themed words: @Planeshifter, @HubSpot, Concept Net, WordNet, and @mongodb.
There is still lots of work to be done to get this to give consistently good results, but I think it’s at the stage where it could be useful to people, which is why I released it.
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Recent Queries
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as in inferno
a destructive burning
a number of suspicious fires in the neighborhood recently
2
as in intensity
depth of feeling
had she the fire in her heart that a run for the White House requires?
3
as in ordeal
a test of faith, patience, or strength
asked to be sent to the front lines, as he was eager to prove himself in the fire of battle
1
as in to shoot
to cause (a projectile) to be driven forward with force
police officers firing rubber bullets
2
as in to blast
to cause a weapon to release a missile with great force
soldiers fired at the enemy in panic-stricken disorder
3
as in to stimulate
to give life, vigor, or spirit to
a school outing to the natural history museum fired his imagination, and he grew up to become an eminent paleontologist
4
as in to sack
to let go from office, service, or employment
fired the secretary for incompetence
5
as in to throw
to send through the air especially with a quick forward motion of the arm
fired a pass to the running back
6
as in to burn
to set (something) on fire
lit some kindling before attempting to fire the logs
Thesaurus Entries Near fire
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“Fire.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fire. Accessed 14 Apr. 2023.
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The way Reverse Dictionary works is pretty simple. It simply looks through tonnes of dictionary definitions and grabs the ones that most closely match your search query. For example, if you type something like «longing for a time in the past», then the engine will return «nostalgia». The engine has indexed several million definitions so far, and at this stage it’s starting to give consistently good results (though it may return weird results sometimes). It acts a lot like a thesaurus except that it allows you to search with a definition, rather than a single word. So in a sense, this tool is a «search engine for words», or a sentence to word converter.
I made this tool after working on Related Words which is a very similar tool, except it uses a bunch of algorithms and multiple databases to find similar words to a search query. That project is closer to a thesaurus in the sense that it returns synonyms for a word (or short phrase) query, but it also returns many broadly related words that aren’t included in thesauri. So this project, Reverse Dictionary, is meant to go hand-in-hand with Related Words to act as a word-finding and brainstorming toolset. For those interested, I also developed Describing Words which helps you find adjectives and interesting descriptors for things (e.g. waves, sunsets, trees, etc.).
In case you didn’t notice, you can click on words in the search results and you’ll be presented with the definition of that word (if available). The definitions are sourced from the famous and open-source WordNet database, so a huge thanks to the many contributors for creating such an awesome free resource.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: Elastic Search, @HubSpot, WordNet, and @mongodb.
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