afire

• POS: Adverb
• HYPHEN: a=fire

CIDE DICTIONARY

afire, adv. & a. [Pref. a- + fire.].

 On fire.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

afire, adv. & predic.adj.
1 on fire.
2 intensely roused or excited.

THESAURUS

afire

abandoned, ablaze, aflame, aflicker, aglow, alight, ardent, blazing, boiling over, breathless, burning, candent, candescent, comburent, committed, conflagrant, cordial, dedicated, delirious, devoted, devout, drunk, earnest, enthusiastic, excited, exuberant, faithful, febrile, fervent, fervid, fevered, feverish, fiery, fired, flagrant, flaming, flaring, flickering, flushed, fuming, glowing, guttering, hearty, heated, hot, hot-blooded, ignescent, ignited, impassioned, in a blaze, in a glow, in earnest, in flames, incandescent, inflamed, inspired, intense, intent, intent on, intoxicated, keen, kindled, live, lively, living, loyal, on fire, passionate, perfervid, red-hot, reeking, resolute, scintillant, scintillating, serious, sincere, smoking, smoldering, sparking, spirited, steaming, steamy, unextinguished, unquenched, unrestrained, vehement, vigorous, warm, white-hot, zealous

ROGET THESAURUS

afire

Heat

N heat, caloric, temperature, warmth, fervor, calidity, incalescence, incandescence, glow, flush, fever, hectic, phlogiston, fire, spark, scintillation, flash, flame, blaze, bonfire, firework, pyrotechnics, pyrotechny, wildfire, sheet of fire, lambent flame, devouring element, adiathermancy, recalescence, summer, dog days, canicular days, baking, heat, white heat, tropical heat, Afric heat, Bengal heat, summer heat, blood heat, sirocco, simoom, broiling sun, insolation, warming, sun, pyrology, thermology, thermotics, thermodynamics, thermometer, calorie, gram-calorie, small calorie, kilocalorie, kilogram calorie, large calorie, British Thermal Unit, B, T, U, therm, quad, degrees Kelvin, kelvins, degrees centigrade, degrees Celsius, degrees Fahrenheit, hot, warm, mild, genial, tepid, lukewarm, unfrozen, thermal, thermic, calorific, fervent, fervid, ardent, aglow, sunny, torrid, tropical, estival, canicular, steamy, close, sultry, stifling, stuffy, suffocating, oppressive, reeking, baking, red hot, white hot, smoking hot, burning, hot, piping hot, like a furnace, like an oven, burning, hot as fire, hot as pepper, hot enough to roast an ox, hot enough to boil an egg, fiery, incandescent, incalescent, candent, ebullient, glowing, smoking, live, on fire, dazzling, in flames, blazing, in a blaze, alight, afire, ablaze, unquenched, unextinguished, smoldering, in a heat, in a glow, in a fever, in a perspiration, in a sweat, sudorific, sweltering, sweltered, blood hot, blood warm, warm as a toast, warm as wool, volcanic, plutonic, igneous, isothermal, isothermic, isotheral, not a breath of air, whirlwinds of tempestuous fire.