burning

1. 1.

   of immediate import

   “burning issues of the day”

   Similarimportant

Other forms of burning

plural

burnings·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about burning

What does burning mean?

burning means "the act of burning something". That is the primary sense; the word has 7 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in burning?

burning has 2 syllables: bur-ning. The stress falls on "bur". In IPA it is /ˈbɝnɪŋ/.

What is another word for burning?

Close synonyms include combustion, burn, combustion, electrocution, burning at the stake. 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 burning a common word?

burning is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.