FLARE
What does "FLARE" mean?
To burn or shine with a sudden, bright, unsteady light.
Meanings
- To blaze up suddenly with a bright, brief light. The match flared, then settled to a steady glow.
- To become suddenly intense, as anger, conflict, or a condition. Tempers flared when the referee made the call. figurative
- To spread or widen gradually outward. The trousers flare slightly below the knee.
- A device producing a bright flame or light, used as a signal or illumination. The stranded sailors fired a flare into the night sky.
Did you know?
- Solar flares are graded A, B, C, M, and X by X-ray brightness, with each letter ten times stronger than the last - an X-class flare can disrupt radio and GPS across the daylit half of Earth within minutes.
Word origin
Of uncertain origin, recorded from the 16th century; possibly related to Scandinavian or Low German words for spreading out or shining, and influenced in sense by 'flame'.
Remember it
FLARE has 'A' before 'RE' - light that AREs up; don't swap it with FLAIR (the talent that has 'AIR').
A little poem
The signal climbs red,
burns its whole life in one arc-
then the dark answers.
haiku
Wordplay
- My jeans and my temper both flare easily - one widens at the ankle, the other widens the argument.
What it teaches
Anything that flares spends itself fast for one bright instant; choose when the brief blaze is worth the burnout.
Quick facts
What does FLARE mean?
To burn or shine with a sudden, bright, unsteady light.
Is FLARE a valid word?
Yes — FLARE is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is FLARE?
FLARE has 5 letters and 1 syllable.
Where does FLARE come from?
Of uncertain origin, recorded from the 16th century; possibly related to Scandinavian or Low German words for spreading out or shining, and influenced in sense by 'flame'.
What can FLARE teach us?
Anything that flares spends itself fast for one bright instant; choose when the brief blaze is worth the burnout.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.