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HOT (hotter, hottest)
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, hottest Dictionary entry overview: What does hot mean?
• HOT (adjective)
The adjective HOT has 21 senses:
1. 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
2. characterized by violent and forceful activity or movement; very intense
3. extended meanings; especially of psychological heat; marked by intensity or vehemence especially of passion or enthusiasm
4. (color) bold and intense
5. sexually excited or exciting
6. recently stolen or smuggled
7. very fast; capable of quick response and great speed
8. wanted by the police
9. producing a burning sensation on the taste nerves
10. performed or performing with unusually great skill and daring and energy
11. very popular or successful
12. very unpleasant or even dangerous
13. newest or most recent
14. having or bringing unusually good luck
15. very good; often used in the negative
16. newly made
17. having or showing great eagerness or enthusiasm
18. of a seeker; very near to the object sought
19. having or dealing with dangerously high levels of radioactivity
20. charged or energized with electricity
21. marked by excited activity
Familiarity information: HOT used as an adjective is very familiar.
Dictionary entry details
| Declension: comparative and superlative |
Superlative: hottest
Sense 1
Meaning:
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
Context example:
a hot forehead
Similar:
hottish (somewhat hot)
sweltering; sweltry (excessively hot and humid or marked by sweating and faintness)
overheated (heated beyond a safe or desirable point)
red-hot (glowing red with heat)
scorching (hot and dry enough to burn or parch a surface)
sizzling (hot enough to burn with or as if with a hissing sound)
stifling; sulfurous; sulphurous; sultry (characterized by oppressive heat and humidity)
thermal (caused by or designed to retain heat)
torrid (extremely hot and dry)
tropic; tropical (of weather or climate; hot and humid as in the tropics)
white; white-hot (glowing white with heat)
heatable (capable of becoming hot)
fiery; igneous (like or suggestive of fire)
fervent; fervid ((archaic) extremely hot, burning, or glowing)
calorific (heat-generating)
calorifacient (producing heat; usually used of foods)
calefactive; calefactory (serving to heat)
calefacient; warming (producing the sensation of heat when applied to the body)
blistering; blistery (hot enough to raise (or as if to raise) blisters)
baking; baking hot (as hot as if in an oven)
heated; heated up; het; het up (made warm or hot ('het' is a dialectal variant of 'heated'))
Also:
warm (having or producing a comfortable and agreeable degree of heat or imparting or maintaining heat)
Attribute:
temperature (the degree of hotness or coldness of a body or environment (corresponding to its molecular activity))
Antonym:
cold (having a low or inadequate temperature or feeling a sensation of coldness or having been made cold by e.g. ice or refrigeration)
Derivation:
hotness (the presence of heat)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Characterized by violent and forceful activity or movement; very intense
Synonyms:
hot; raging
Context example:
the river became a raging torrent
Similar:
violent (acting with or marked by or resulting from great force or energy or emotional intensity)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Extended meanings; especially of psychological heat; marked by intensity or vehemence especially of passion or enthusiasm
Context example:
a hot argument
Similar:
torrid (emotionally charged and vigorously energetic)
white-hot (intensely zealous or fervid)
sensual; sultry (sexually exciting or gratifying)
heated (marked by emotional heat; vehement)
red-hot; sizzling (characterized by intense emotion or interest or excitement)
Also:
passionate (having or expressing strong emotions)
Attribute:
emotionalism; emotionality (emotional nature or quality)
Antonym:
cold (extended meanings; especially of psychological coldness; without human warmth or emotion)
Sense 4
Meaning:
(color) bold and intense
Context example:
hot pink
Similar:
warm (inducing the impression of warmth; used especially of reds and oranges and yellows when referring to color)
Sense 5
Meaning:
Sexually excited or exciting
Context example:
hot pants
Similar:
sexy (marked by or tending to arouse sexual desire or interest)
Derivation:
hotness (a state of sexual arousal)
Sense 6
Meaning:
Recently stolen or smuggled
Context example:
a hot car
Similar:
illegal (prohibited by law or by official or accepted rules)
Domain usage:
colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)
Sense 7
Meaning:
Very fast; capable of quick response and great speed
Synonyms:
blistering; hot; red-hot
Context example:
a red-hot line drive
Similar:
fast (acting or moving or capable of acting or moving quickly)
Sense 8
Meaning:
Wanted by the police
Context example:
a hot suspect
Similar:
wanted (desired or wished for or sought)
Sense 9
Meaning:
Producing a burning sensation on the taste nerves
Synonyms:
hot; spicy
Context example:
I like my chili extra spicy
Similar:
tasty (pleasing to the sense of taste)
Derivation:
hotness (a hot spiciness)
Sense 10
Meaning:
Performed or performing with unusually great skill and daring and energy
Context example:
he's hot tonight
Similar:
skilled (having or showing or requiring special skill)
Domain usage:
colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)
Sense 11
Meaning:
Very popular or successful
Context example:
cabbage patch dolls were hot last season
Similar:
popular (regarded with great favor, approval, or affection especially by the general public)
Domain usage:
colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)
Sense 12
Meaning:
Very unpleasant or even dangerous
Context example:
in hot water
Similar:
unpleasant (offensive or disagreeable; causing discomfort or unhappiness)
Sense 13
Meaning:
Newest or most recent
Synonyms:
hot; red-hot
Context example:
red-hot information
Similar:
new (not of long duration; having just (or relatively recently) come into being or been made or acquired or discovered)
Sense 14
Meaning:
Having or bringing unusually good luck
Context example:
the dice are hot tonight
Similar:
lucky (having or bringing good fortune)
Sense 15
Meaning:
Very good; often used in the negative
Context example:
he's hot at math but not so hot at history
Similar:
good (having desirable or positive qualities especially those suitable for a thing specified)
Sense 16
Meaning:
Newly made
Context example:
a hot scent
Similar:
fresh (recently made, produced, or harvested)
Sense 17
Meaning:
Having or showing great eagerness or enthusiasm
Context example:
hot for travel
Similar:
eager (having or showing keen interest or intense desire or impatient expectancy)
Sense 18
Meaning:
Of a seeker; very near to the object sought
Context example:
you are hot
Similar:
close; near; nigh (not far distant in time or space or degree or circumstances)
Sense 19
Meaning:
Having or dealing with dangerously high levels of radioactivity
Context example:
a hot laboratory
Similar:
radioactive (exhibiting or caused by radioactivity)
Sense 20
Meaning:
Charged or energized with electricity
Synonyms:
hot; live
Context example:
a live wire
Similar:
charged (of a particle or body or system; having a net amount of positive or negative electric charge)
Domain category:
electricity (a physical phenomenon associated with stationary or moving electrons and protons)
Sense 21
Meaning:
Marked by excited activity
Context example:
a hot week on the stock market
Similar:
active (characterized by energetic activity)
Domain usage:
colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)
Context examples
We must strike while the iron is hot.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
This was agreed to, and Mrs. Phillips protested that they would have a nice comfortable noisy game of lottery tickets, and a little bit of hot supper afterwards.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
It was not until we had consumed some hot tea at the station and taken our places in the Kentish train that we were sufficiently thawed, he to speak and I to listen.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The smell of hot metal remained to assure us that the light was still there, ready to flash out at a moment’s notice.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
To her, the irons he swung were much hotter than she ever dared to use.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
"Specifically, we looked at the degree to which rejectees imposed an unpleasant taste test of hot sauce on their rejectors."
(Sometimes You Shouldn't Say Sorry, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
The cold side is still quite toasty by Earthly standards, with an average of 2,400 to 2,600 degrees Fahrenheit (1,300 to 1,400 Celsius), and the hot side averages 4,200 degrees Fahrenheit (2,300 Celsius).
(Lava or Not, Exoplanet 55 Cancri e Likely to have Atmosphere, NASA)
A team of University of Utah seismologists has discovered a reservoir of hot, partly molten rock hidden 12 to 28 miles beneath Yellowstone's supervolcano.
(Yellowstone magma discovery, NSF)
When you’re hot, you’re hot, dear Sagittarius.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
I could only look upwards; the sun began to grow hot, and the light offended my eyes.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
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