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Adjective ablaze has 4 senses
- ablaze, aflame, aroused, turned on - keenly excited (especially sexually) or indicating excitement; "his face all ablaze with excitement"- Bram Stoker; "he was aflame with desire"
Antonym: passionless (indirect, via passionate)
- ablaze, afire, aflame, aflare, alight, blazing, burning, flaming, on fire - lighted up by or as by fire or flame; "forests set ablaze (or afire) by lightning"; "even the car's tires were aflame"; "a night aflare with fireworks"; "candles alight on the tables"; "blazing logs in the fireplace"; "a burning cigarette"; "a flaming crackling fire"; "houses on fire"
Antonyms: unlighted, unlit (indirect, via lighted)
- ablaze, flaming - resembling flame in brilliance or color; "maple trees ablaze in autumn"; "flaming autumn leaves"
Antonyms: colorless, colourless (indirect, via colorful)
- ablaze, inflamed, reddened - lighted with red light as if with flames; "streets ablaze with lighted Christmas trees"; "the inflamed clouds at sunset"; "reddened faces around the campfire"
Antonym: dark (indirect, via light)
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