English word
Hot
Definitions
adjective
- having a relatively high temperature
- newly made : fresh
- close to something sought
- suggestive of heat or of burning or glowing objects : very bright
- having a component (such as capsaicin) that creates a burning or tingling sensation in the mouth : pungent, pepperyof food
- see also hot pepper, hot sauceof food
- of intense and immediate interest
- unusually lucky or favorable
- temporarily capable of unusual performance (as in a sport)
- currently popular or in demand
- very good
- absurd, unbelievable
- capable of giving a sensation of heat or of burning, searing, or scalding
- electrically energized especially with high voltage
- radioactive
- dealing with radioactive materialalso
- being in an excited stateof an atom or molecule
- recently and illegally obtained
- wanted by the police
- unsafe for a fugitivealso
- fast
- having heat in a degree exceeding normal body heat
- marked by violence or fierceness : stormy
- angryalso
- sexually excited or receptive
- sexy
- eager, zealous
- emotionally exciting and marked by strong rhythms and free melodic improvisationsof jazz
- 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
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
Opposite of significantly high in temperature
(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