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adj. characterized by great warmth and intensity of feeling. Opposite of dispassionate, passionless.
adj. supplied with a mechanism for heating; -- of structures or devices. Opposite of unheated.
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adj. made warm or hot (`het' is a dialectal variant of `heated')
adj. marked by emotional heat; vehement
Word Usage
"But Monday night, at the Ward 5 Democratic Committee straw poll, one of Moten's friends said Gray supporters were the aggressors in what he described as a heated dispute outside Michigan Park Christian Church."