flamelike

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adjective

Resembling a flame or its colour.

OriginProto-Germanic *līką ← Proto-Indo-European *leyg- ← English flame →
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Meanings

adjectiveflamelike (comparative more flamelike, superlative most flamelike)

comparative more flamelike · superlative most flamelike

  1. Resembling a flame or its colour.

    His breath stuttered while she watched the ascendant sun streak the clouds with a flamelike glow.

    2023, Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀, A Spell of Good Things, Canongate Books, page 133

Origin

  1. Englishflame
  2. Proto-Indo-European*leyg-
  3. Proto-Germanic*līką
  4. Englishflamelike

From flame + -like.

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APA

flamelike. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/flamelike

MLA

“flamelike.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/flamelike. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “flamelike,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/flamelike.

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