English word

Hot

Definitions

adjective

  1. having a relatively high temperature
  2. newly made : fresh
  3. close to something sought
  4. suggestive of heat or of burning or glowing objects : very bright
  5. having a component (such as capsaicin) that creates a burning or tingling sensation in the mouth : pungent, pepperyof food
  6. see also hot pepper, hot sauceof food
  7. of intense and immediate interest
  8. unusually lucky or favorable
  9. temporarily capable of unusual performance (as in a sport)
  10. currently popular or in demand
  11. very good
  12. absurd, unbelievable
  13. capable of giving a sensation of heat or of burning, searing, or scalding
  14. electrically energized especially with high voltage
  15. radioactive
  16. dealing with radioactive materialalso
  17. being in an excited stateof an atom or molecule
  18. recently and illegally obtained
  19. wanted by the police
  20. unsafe for a fugitivealso
  21. fast
  22. having heat in a degree exceeding normal body heat
  23. marked by violence or fierceness : stormy
  24. angryalso
  25. sexually excited or receptive
  26. sexy
  27. eager, zealous
  28. emotionally exciting and marked by strong rhythms and free melodic improvisationsof jazz
  29. having or causing the sensation of an uncomfortable degree of body heat

Synonyms for hot

Closest evidence-backed alternatives.

  • boiling
  • searing
  • burning
  • roasting

Synonyms by context

Significantly high in temperature

adjective

  • scorching
  • heated
  • scalding
  • steaming
  • fiery
  • piping

(of the weather or climate) Having a high degree of heat or a high temperature

adjective

  • balmy
  • humid
  • torrid
  • baking
  • close
  • muggy
  • stifling

Feeling or producing an uncomfortable sensation of bodily heat

adjective

  • feverish
  • febrile
  • fevered
  • flushed
  • pyretic
  • feverous
  • burning up
  • with a temperature
  • having a temperature

At a very fast speed

adverb

  • fast
  • quickly
  • briskly
  • hastily
  • quick
  • rapidly
  • swiftly
  • posthaste
  • post-haste
  • snappily

To cause an increase in temperature of an object or space

verb

  • heat
  • warm
  • melt
  • scorch
  • thaw
  • reheat
  • ignite
  • fire
  • enkindle
  • kindle

A person or thing that enjoys a short period of great popularity

noun

  • flavour of the month
  • trend
  • craze
  • cool
  • fad
  • rage
  • sensation
  • thing
  • vogue
  • one-hit wonder

Antonyms for hot

  • apathetic
  • chilly
  • cold
  • blizzardly
  • chill
  • frigid
  • coldish
  • freezing
  • cooled
  • arctic
  • coolish
  • refrigerated
  • subfreezing
  • subzero

Opposite of significantly high in temperature

  • cold
  • blizzardly
  • chill
  • coldish
  • cooled
  • coolish
  • nippy
  • refrigerated
  • snowy
  • subfreezing

(of the weather or climate) Opposite of having a high degree of heat or a high temperature

  • chilly
  • cool
  • freezing
  • frigid
  • arctic
  • biting
  • brumal

Opposite of feeling or producing an uncomfortable sensation of bodily heat

  • shivery
  • algid
  • shivering
  • shuddering
  • chilled
  • shuddery
  • quaking

Opposite of at a very fast speed

  • slow
  • gradually
  • slowly
  • unhurriedly
  • leisurely
  • belatedly
  • calmly
  • casually
  • deliberately
  • delinquently

Phrases

  • baking hot
  • blazing hot
  • boiling hot
  • burning hot
  • burning up
  • cold as ice
  • extremely hot
  • fiery hot
  • freezing cold
  • heated up
  • intensely hot
  • like a blowtorch
  • like a furnace
  • like an oven
  • made hot
  • made warm
  • mad keen
  • on fire
  • piping hot
  • red hot