all-fired

Questions about all-fired

What does all-fired mean?

all-fired means "extreme". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in all-fired?

all-fired has 2 syllables and divides as all--fired under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for all-fired?

Close synonyms include bloody, damn, all-firedly. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is all-fired a common word?

all-fired is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.