Antonyms for FIRE
faɪərfire

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1. fireverb

   Synonyms:
   set on fire

2. fireverb

   Synonyms:
   shoot, let off, loose, open fire

3. fireverb

   Synonyms:
   dismiss, cards, heave-ho, throw out, redundant, sack, give the elbow, let go, give the boot

4. fireverb

   One of the four basic elements.

   Antonyms:
   hire

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1. fire

   Combustion is the essential fact which is at the basis of that assemblage of visible phenomenon which we call fire; combustion being the continuous chemical combination of a substance with some element, as oxygen, evolving heat, and extending from slow processes, such as those by which the heat of the human body is maintained, to the processes producing the most intense light also, as in a blast-furnace, or on the surface of the sun. Fire is always attended with light, as well as heat; blaze, flame, etc., designate the mingled light and heat of a fire. Combustion is the scientific, fire the popular term. A conflagration is an extensive fire. Compare LIGHT.

   Synonyms:
   blaze, burning, combustion, conflagration, flame

Matched Categories

1. • Attack
   • Bake
   • Combustion
   • Cookery
   • Create
   • Drive Out
   • Element
   • Fireplace
   • Fuel
   • Happening
   • Supply
   • Trial

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:2.3 / 3 votes

1. firenoun

   the event of something burning (often destructive)

   "they lost everything in the fire"

   Antonyms:
   hire, engage, employ

   Synonyms:
   fervidness, fervour, ardor, attack, blast, flaming, flak, fervor, firing, fervency, flack, ardour, flame

2. fire, firingnoun

   the act of firing weapons or artillery at an enemy

   "hold your fire until you can see the whites of their eyes"; "they retreated in the face of withering enemy fire"

   Antonyms:
   employ, hire, engage

   Synonyms:
   dismissal, fervor, ignition, firing, fervency, lighting, fire, firing off, dismission, inflammation, sack, attack, discharge, release, ardour, sacking, liberation, fervour, flame, fervidness, ardor, kindling, flaming, flak, flack, blast

3. fire, flame, flamingnoun

   the process of combustion of inflammable materials producing heat and light and (often) smoke

   "fire was one of our ancestors' first discoveries"

   Antonyms:
   engage, hire, employ

   Synonyms:
   fire, fervidness, fervour, ardor, attack, blast, flaming, flak, fervor, firing, fervency, flack, ardour, flame

4. firenoun

   a fireplace in which a relatively small fire is burning

   "they sat by the fire and talked"

   Antonyms:
   hire, employ, engage

   Synonyms:
   fervidness, fervour, ardor, attack, blast, flaming, flak, fervor, firing, fervency, flack, ardour, flame

5. firenoun

   once thought to be one of four elements composing the universe (Empedocles)

   Antonyms:
   hire, engage, employ

   Synonyms:
   fervidness, fervour, ardor, attack, blast, flaming, flak, fervor, firing, fervency, flack, ardour, flame

6. ardor, ardour, fervor, fervour, fervency, fire, fervidnessnoun

   feelings of great warmth and intensity

   "he spoke with great ardor"

   Antonyms:
   hire, engage, employ

   Synonyms:
   fervor, firing, fervency, flaming, flack, inflammation, zeal, excitement, excitation, fervour, flame, blast, fervidness, ardor, elan, flak, attack, ardour, fire

7. firenoun

   fuel that is burning and is used as a means for cooking

   "put the kettle on the fire"; "barbecue over an open fire"

   Antonyms:
   hire, employ, engage

   Synonyms:
   fervidness, fervour, ardor, attack, blast, flaming, flak, fervor, firing, fervency, flack, ardour, flame

8. firenoun

   a severe trial

   "he went through fire and damnation"

   Antonyms:
   engage, hire, employ

   Synonyms:
   fervidness, fervour, ardor, attack, blast, flaming, flak, fervor, firing, fervency, flack, ardour, flame

9. fire, attack, flak, flack, blastverb

   intense adverse criticism

   "Clinton directed his fire at the Republican Party"; "the government has come under attack"; "don't give me any flak"

   Antonyms:
   hire, employ, engage

   Synonyms:
   ardour, antiaircraft gun, flaming, fervour, ardor, flak, tone-beginning, antiaircraft, onslaught, attempt, blow, fervidness, flak catcher, bam, onset, flack catcher, flack, clap, flame, ack-ack gun, eruption, attack, fire, gust, ack-ack, approach, firing, onrush, fervency, blast, bang, fervor, pom-pom, plan of attack, good time

10. open fire, fireverb

    start firing a weapon

    Antonyms:
    hire, employ, engage

    Synonyms:
    send away, kindle, raise, fuel, provoke, burn down, burn, open fire, sack, terminate, discharge, give the sack, force out, enkindle, dismiss, displace, can, evoke, elicit, give notice, go off, give the axe, fire, arouse

11. fire, dischargeverb

    cause to go off

    "fire a gun"; "fire a bullet"

    Antonyms:
    hire, engage, employ

    Synonyms:
    unload, exhaust, kindle, dispatch, complete, expel, go off, give the axe, burn, assoil, can, provoke, drop off, empty, enkindle, give the sack, sack, set down, elicit, fuel, fire, arouse, give notice, open fire, displace, exculpate, dismiss, release, raise, clear, put down, acquit, burn down, drop, discharge, evoke, exonerate, free, force out, eject, terminate, muster out, send away

12. fireverb

    bake in a kiln so as to harden

    "fire pottery"

    Antonyms:
    engage, hire, employ

    Synonyms:
    send away, kindle, raise, fuel, provoke, burn down, burn, open fire, sack, terminate, discharge, give the sack, force out, enkindle, dismiss, displace, can, evoke, elicit, give notice, go off, give the axe, arouse

13. displace, fire, give notice, can, dismiss, give the axe, send away, sack, force out, give the sack, terminateverb

    terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position

    "The boss fired his secretary today"; "The company terminated 25% of its workers"

    Antonyms:
    engage, hire, employ

    Synonyms:
    throw out, kindle, notify, depose, advise, gouge, go off, give the axe, burn, tin, can, apprize, rout out, plunder, enkindle, give the sack, put up, sack, end, give the bounce, evict, elicit, discount, finish, move, fire, stop, arouse, drive out, crowd out, brush off, squeeze out, give notice, open fire, usher out, displace, send packing, send word, apprise, dissolve, push aside, dismiss, give the gate, raise, clear, ignore, provoke, sack up, burn down, cease, squirt, rouse, brush aside, discharge, evoke, fuel, force out, preempt, eject, terminate, disregard, drop, send away, net

14. fire, discharge, go offverb

    go off or discharge

    "The gun fired"

    Antonyms:
    engage, employ, hire

    Synonyms:
    unload, exhaust, kindle, absquatulate, dispatch, complete, expel, go off, give the axe, burn, assoil, can, provoke, go over, drop off, empty, enkindle, give the sack, sack, set down, decamp, bolt, elicit, fuel, fire, arouse, give notice, open fire, displace, implode, exculpate, abscond, dismiss, release, raise, clear, put down, acquit, burn down, drop, discharge, evoke, exonerate, free, force out, make off, eject, terminate, muster out, send away, come off, run off

15. fireverb

    drive out or away by or as if by fire

    "The soldiers were fired"; "Surrender fires the cold skepticism"

    Antonyms:
    engage, hire, employ

    Synonyms:
    send away, kindle, raise, fuel, provoke, burn down, burn, open fire, sack, terminate, discharge, give the sack, force out, enkindle, dismiss, displace, can, evoke, elicit, give notice, go off, give the axe, arouse

16. arouse, elicit, enkindle, kindle, evoke, fire, raise, provokeverb

    call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses)

    "arouse pity"; "raise a smile"; "evoke sympathy"

    Antonyms:
    hire, employ, engage

    Synonyms:
    elevate, resurrect, force out, provoke, beset, send away, awake, levy, call forth, chivy, kick upstairs, give the sack, suggest, stimulate, lift, heighten, harry, upgrade, educe, dismiss, kick up, fire, leaven, chivvy, bring up, rouse, invoke, raise, wind up, recruit, inflame, chevvy, farm, extract, excite, grow, conjure, upraise, give the axe, prove, awaken, chevy, conjure up, conflagrate, molest, go off, displace, plague, wake, waken, turn on, enhance, give notice, terminate, fuel, arouse, wake up, can, sack, advance, perk up, stir, burn, burn down, put forward, sex, enkindle, evoke, rear, harass, draw out, set up, elicit, nurture, parent, energize, produce, erect, discharge, kindle, put up, promote, hassle, open fire, brace, energise, paint a picture, get up, call down, come alive

17. burn, fire, burn downverb

    destroy by fire

    "They burned the house and his diaries"

    Antonyms:
    hire, employ, engage

    Synonyms:
    kindle, evoke, bite, sack, give the axe, burn, dismiss, go off, go up, enkindle, give the sack, cut, glow, elicit, burn up, terminate, fire, combust, arouse, give notice, open fire, displace, sting, send away, raise, sunburn, provoke, can, burn down, cauterize, incinerate, discharge, burn off, fuel, force out, cauterise

18. fuel, fireverb

    provide with fuel

    "Oil fires the furnace"

    Antonyms:
    hire, engage, employ

    Synonyms:
    send away, kindle, raise, fuel, provoke, burn down, burn, open fire, sack, terminate, discharge, give the sack, force out, enkindle, dismiss, displace, can, evoke, elicit, give notice, go off, give the axe, fire, arouse

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1. firenoun

   Synonyms:
   combustion, ignition, burning, phlogiston, conflagration, holocaust, deflagration, flame, blaze, bonfire, balefire, feu de joie, beacon

   Associated words:
   pyrology, pyrography, pyromania, pyrophobia, incendiary, incendiarism, arson, lurid, moloch, fuel, combustible, pyroleter, smolder, ignis fatuus, vulcan, hephæstus

2. fireverb

   Synonyms:
   ignite, kindle, (Slang) discharge, dismiss, inflame, irritate, arouse, excite, incite, animate, quicken, vitalize, enthuse, inspirit, stoke, bake, burn, torrefy

Editors ContributionRate these antonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. ice cube

   it's hot and not ice cube

   bro that fire is hot i need ice cube to put it out.

   Submitted by anonymous on February 5, 2020  

How to use FIRE in a sentence?

1. Cal Fire:

   The potential for growth remains high as crews battle the fire in difficult terrain.

2. Dakota Shrader:

   I was in the history hallway, and as soon as we heard the alarms, everybody just started leaving following the same procedure as...( a) practice fire drill, and next thing you know, we just hear... three gunshots, loud explosions, and all the teachers are telling us to run.

3. Ludwig van Beethoven:

   Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears form the eyes of woman.

4. Cristina Baker:

   At that moment, it was like the weight I had been carrying for over 20 years of my life was lifted, i came in one way and left that room a completely different person. My heart was set on fire. I felt free. I wanted to turn my life around. From there, I went through a process of healing. It took a few months to get off the drugs, but I was ready to be free from it all – the drugs, the alcohol, all the things I was doing that were hurting me and others. I just felt like God was breaking the chains one by one.

5. Christina Reynolds:

   We think that women understand their rights are under fire and that there is a dire need to ensure that the right policymakers are making the decisions, what we've seen is a bunch of mostly male Republicans making really bad decisions on behalf of the women in this country.

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