all-fired

adjective

Extreme, excessive.

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all-firedlyimmoderatebloodydamn
First used 19th c.
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Meanings

adjectiveall-fired (not comparable)
  1. USinformalnot comparableExtreme, excessive.

    It's an all-fired outrage to tell any human creature that he's bound to hell.

    1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 16, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC
adverball-fired (not comparable)
  1. USemphaticinformalintensifiernot comparableExtremely, thoroughly, very.First known use 19th c.

    Of course, I was only stringing Jerry . . . he thinks he's so all-fired cute and smart.

    1909, Lucy Maud Montgomery, chapter 14, in Anne of Avonlea
    2 more examples

    Latha dear, she said resolutely, once in your life you'll just have to quit being so all-fired superstitious.

    1970, Donald Harington, Lightning Bug, published 2005, page 32

    Sometimes I'm tired and I wonder / What's so all-fired important / About being someplace at some time

    1972, Carole King, “Bitter with the Sweet”, in Rhymes & Reasons

    Synonyms: all-firedly

Synonyms & antonyms

adverbExtremely, thoroughly, very.

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all-firedly

More synonyms by meaning

adjectiveextreme, thorough

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immoderate

adverbextremely

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bloodydamnall-firedly
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bloodydamnimmoderate

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

Probably a euphemistic form of hell-fired.

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APA

all-fired. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/all-fired

MLA

“all-fired.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/all-fired. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “all-fired,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/all-fired.

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