All-fired

adj, adv, slang

adj, adv, slang ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Extreme, excessive. US, informal, not-comparable

    "It's an all-fired outrage to tell any human creature that he's bound to hell."

Adjective
  1. 1
    extreme, thorough wordnet
Adverb
  1. 1
    Extremely, thoroughly, very. US, emphatic, informal, intensifier, not-comparable

    "Of course, I was only stringing Jerry . . . he thinks he's so all-fired cute and smart."

Adverb
  1. 1
    extremely wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms
all-firedlyall-firedlybloodydamn

Antonyms

All antonyms
merely

Example

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"It's an all-fired outrage to tell any human creature that he's bound to hell."

Etymology

Probably a euphemistic form of hell-fired.

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