HomeServicesBlogDictionariesContactSpanish Course
← Back to search

Meaning of fiery-tongued | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR C1

Definitions

  1. That breathes fire; fire-breathing.
  2. That speaks or preaches with zeal, vivid imagery, and uncompromising urgency; vitriolic; acerbic.
    figuratively

Examples

“Obey, if you will, the law of the baser passions, - appetite, pride, selfishness, - but know, they will scourge you into realms where the air is hot with fiery-tongued scorpions, that will sting and torment your soul into unutterable agonies!”
“Ossian survives in him: behold that melancholy retrospect, that gloom, that melodious wail. And especially, as I have said, do his immediate ancestors survive in him, his sturdy, toiling, fiery-tongued, clannish yeoman progenitors: all are summed up here; this is the net result available for literature in the nineteenth century.”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.

See also

Learn this word in context

See fiery-tongued used in real conversations inside our free language course.

Start Free Course