all-fired

1. 1.

   extreme

   “why is he in such an all-fired hurry?”

   Similarimmoderate

   colloquialism

1. 1.

   extremely

   “you are bloody right”

   “Why are you so all-fired aggressive?”

   Synonymsbloodydamnall-firedly

   intensifier

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: all--fired. The stress falls on "all-".

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.