inflamed

Other forms of inflamed

comparative

inflamedder·

superlative

inflameddest·

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 inflamed

What does inflamed mean?

inflamed means "resulting from inflammation; hot and swollen and reddened". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in inflamed?

inflamed has 2 syllables: in-flamed. The stress falls on "flamed". In IPA it is /ɪnˈfleɪmd/.

What is another word for inflamed?

Close synonyms include ablaze, reddened. 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 inflamed a common word?

inflamed is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.