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ablaze

Adjective
Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

Burning brightly or glowing intensely with fire, light, or vivid color; poetically used for intense emotion or illumination.

Detailed Definition
In poetry, ablaze can describe literal flames or, more often, something vivid, heated, or emotionally intense. Wilcox uses it to make the season seem almost consumed by its own fire.
Example
Example in poetry:
“The fierce midsummer all ablaze” means brilliantly burning or glowing; “Maples stood ablaze with October red” is a familiar seasonal image; “The city, ablaze with windows, refused the dark” shifts the glow to an urban scene; “Her face was ablaze with anger” shows the word’s figurative intensity
Additional Notes
"Ablaze" is less everyday than the surrounding vocabulary and is used here in a vivid figurative sense, so readers may need to check its meaning.; Found in the poem, Friendship After Love by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Other Meanings of “ablaze”
Also Known As
aflame ignited fiery incandescent
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