Hot

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Having or giving off heat; capable of burning.
  • adj. Being at a high temperature.
  • adj. Being at or exhibiting a temperature that is higher than normal or desirable: a hot forehead.
  • adj. Causing a burning sensation, as in the mouth; spicy: hot peppers; a hot curry.
  • adj. Charged or energized with electricity: a hot wire.
  • adj. Radioactive, especially to a dangerous degree.
  • adj. Marked by intensity of emotion; ardent or fiery: a hot temper.
  • adj. Having or displaying great enthusiasm; eager: hot for travel.
  • adj. Informal Arousing intense interest, excitement, or controversy: a hot new book; a hot topic.
  • adj. Informal Marked by excited activity or energy: a hot week on the stock market.
  • adj. Violent; raging: a hot battle.
  • adj. Slang Sexually excited or exciting.
  • adj. Slang Recently stolen: a hot car.
  • adj. Slang Wanted by the police: a hot suspect.
  • adj. Close to a successful solution or conclusion: hot on the trail.
  • adj. Informal Most recent; new or fresh: a hot news item; the hot fashions for fall.
  • adj. Informal Currently very popular or successful: one of the hottest young talents around.
  • adj. Informal Requiring immediate action or attention: a hot opportunity.
  • adj. Slang Very good or impressive. Often used in the negative: I'm not so hot at math.
  • adj. Slang Funny or absurd: told a hot one about the neighbors' dog.
  • adj. Slang Performing with great skill and daring: a hot drummer.
  • adj. Slang Having or characterized by repeated successes: a player who is on a hot streak.
  • adj. Slang Fast and responsive: a hot sports car.
  • adj. Slang Unusually lucky: hot at craps.
  • adj. Music Of, relating to, or being an emotionally charged style of performance marked by strong rhythms and improvisation: hot jazz.
  • adj. Bold and bright.
  • n. Slang Strong sexual attraction or desire. Used with the.
  • ad. In a hot manner; hotly.
  • ad. While hot: foods that are best eaten hot.
  • v. Informal To cause to increase in intensity or excitement. Often used with up: "His book is an exercise in the fashionable art of instant history, in which every episode is hotted up with an anecdote” ( Harper's).
  • idiom. hot and bothered Informal In a state of agitated excitement; flustered: all hot and bothered before the opening performance.
  • idiom. hot and heavy Informal Passionate or intense: Interest in the new stock was hot and heavy.
  • idiom. hot and heavy Characterized by or engaging in amorous or sexual activity.
  • idiom. hot to trot Slang Sexually avid; lascivious.
  • idiom. hot to trot Slang Ready and willing; eager.
  • idiom. hot under the collar Informal Angry.
  • idiom. make it hot for Slang To make things uncomfortable or dangerous for: Don't make it hot for yourself by needlessly finding fault.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Of an object, having a high temperature.
  • adj. Of the weather, causing the air to be hot.
  • adj. Of a person or animal, feeling the sensation of heat, especially to the point of discomfort.
  • adj. Feverish.
  • adj. Of food, spicy.
  • adj. Electrically charged
  • adj. Of a person, very physically or sexually attractive.
  • adj. Sexual; involving sexual intercourse or sexual excitement.
  • adj. Popular; in demand.
  • adj. Very close to finding or guessing something to be found or guessed.
  • adj. Performing strongly; having repeated successes
  • adj. Fresh; just released
  • adj. Uncomfortable, difficult to deal with; awkward, dangerous, unpleasant.
  • adj. Compromising
  • v. To heat, or to become hot
  • v. To become lively or exciting
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • imp. & p. p. of hote.
  • adj. Having much sensible heat; exciting the feeling of warmth in a great degree; very warm; -- opposed to cold, and exceeding warm in degree
  • adj. Characterized by heat, ardor, or animation; easily excited; firely; vehement; passionate; violent; eager.
  • adj. Lustful; lewd; lecherous.
  • adj. Acrid; biting; pungent.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Having the sensation of heat, especially in a high degree, the lower degrees being denoted by warm.
  • Having or communicating sensible heat, especially in more considerable quantity than is denoted by warm.
  • Having the property of exciting the effect or a feeling of heat; stimulating; biting; pungent; peppery: as, a hot blister.
  • Ardent in feeling or temper; fiery; vehement; passionate.
  • Violent; keen; brisk: as, a hot engagement; a hot pursuit, or a person hot in a pursuit.
  • Lustful; lewd.
  • Figuratively, heated by constant use, as if by friction.
  • Dry and quick to absorb.
  • Vigorously or violently; with might and main; with quick and weighty blows, retorts, etc.
  • Synonyms Burning, flery, fervid, glowing.
  • Piquant, highly seasoned.
  • Excitable, irascible, hasty, precipitate, choleric.
  • n. A sort of basket used for carrying turf, earth, slate, etc.
  • n. A preterit of hight.
  • n. An obsolete irregular (strong) past participle of hit.
  • Ardently or earnestly supported, as indicated by the betting: as, a hot favorite.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. (color) bold and intense
  • adj. newest or most recent
  • adj. sexually excited or exciting
  • adj. extended meanings; especially of psychological heat; marked by intensity or vehemence especially of passion or enthusiasm
  • adj. performed or performing with unusually great skill and daring and energy
  • adj. very good; often used in the negative
  • adj. very popular or successful
  • adj. newly made
  • adj. characterized by violent and forceful activity or movement; very intense
  • adj. used of physical heat; having a high or higher than desirable temperature or giving off heat or feeling or causing a sensation of heat or burning
  • adj. having or dealing with dangerously high levels of radioactivity
  • adj. very fast; capable of quick response and great speed
  • adj. marked by excited activity
  • adj. wanted by the police
  • adj. of a seeker; very near to the object sought
  • adj. having or bringing unusually good luck
  • adj. having or showing great eagerness or enthusiasm
  • adj. recently stolen or smuggled
  • adj. very unpleasant or even dangerous
  • adj. producing a burning sensation on the taste nerves
  • adj. charged or energized with electricity
  • Equivalent
    warm    new    sexy    fiery    sultry    flaming    red-hot    white-hot    heated    sizzling   
    Cross Reference
    eager    angry    ardent    excited    acrid    violent    pungent    piping hot    hot o' the spur    hot and heavy   
    Variant
    hotter    hottest    hote   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    animated    passionate    hasty    precipitate    eager    vehement    burning    ardent    irascible    fiery   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Bhatt    Dot    Kott    Lot    Lotte    Minot    Montserrat    Mott    Ott    Sadat   
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    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    warm    cold    hard    thick    bad    many    high    dry    little    simple