Hot

[hɒt] or [hɑt]

Definition

(adj.) marked by excited activity; 'a hot week on the stock market' .

(adj.) charged or energized with electricity; 'a hot wire'; 'a live wire' .

(adj.) having or dealing with dangerously high levels of radioactivity; 'hot fuel rods'; 'a hot laboratory' .

(adj.) of a seeker; very near to the object sought; 'you are hot' .

(adj.) having or showing great eagerness or enthusiasm; 'hot for travel' .

(adj.) newly made; 'a hot scent' .

(adj.) very good; often used in the negative; 'he's hot at math but not so hot at history' .

(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; 'hot stove'; 'hot water'; 'a hot August day'; 'a hot stuffy room'; 'she's hot and tired'; 'a hot forehead' .

(adj.) extended meanings; especially of psychological heat; marked by intensity or vehemence especially of passion or enthusiasm; 'a hot temper'; 'a hot topic'; 'a hot new book'; 'a hot love affair'; 'a hot argument' .

(adj.) recently stolen or smuggled; 'hot merchandise'; 'a hot car' .

(adj.) having or bringing unusually good luck; 'hot at craps'; 'the dice are hot tonight' .

(adj.) newest or most recent; 'news hot off the press'; 'red-hot information' .

(adj.) very unpleasant or even dangerous; 'make it hot for him'; 'in the hot seat'; 'in hot water' .

(adj.) very popular or successful; 'one of the hot young talents'; 'cabbage patch dolls were hot last season' .

(adj.) sexually excited or exciting; 'was hot for her'; 'hot pants' .

(adj.) performed or performing with unusually great skill and daring and energy; 'a hot drummer'; 'he's hot tonight' .

(adj.) producing a burning sensation on the taste nerves; 'hot salsa'; 'jalapeno peppers are very hot' .

(adj.) characterized by violent and forceful activity or movement; very intense; 'the fighting became hot and heavy'; 'a hot engagement'; 'a raging battle'; 'the river became a raging torrent' .

(adj.) wanted by the police; 'a hot suspect' .

(adj.) (color) bold and intense; 'hot pink' .

Checked by Dale--From WordNet

Definition

(-) of Hight

(-) imp. & p. p. of Hote.

(superl.) Having much sensible heat; exciting the feeling of warmth in a great degree; very warm; -- opposed to cold, and exceeding warm in degree; as, a hot stove; hot water or air.

(superl.) Characterized by heat, ardor, or animation; easily excited; firely; vehement; passionate; violent; eager.

(superl.) Lustful; lewd; lecherous.

(superl.) Acrid; biting; pungent; as, hot as mustard.

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(-) of Hote

Typed by Agatha

Synonyms and Synonymous

a. [1]. Burning, fiery, scalding.[2]. Irascible, excitable, impetuous, passionate, hasty, choleric, furious.[3]. Ardent, vehement, fervent, eager, glowing, animated, fervid, violent.[4]. Pungent, piquant, sharp, acrid, biting, peppery, high-flavored, high-seasoned.

Edited by Ingram

Synonyms and Antonyms

SYN:Fiery, burning, fervent, glowing, pungent, violent,[See ARDENT]

Inputed by Andre

Definition

adj. having heat: very warm: fiery: pungent: animated: ardent in temper: fervent: vehement: violent: passionate: lustful.—adj. Hot′-and-hot′ of food cooked and served up at once in hot dishes.—ns. Hot′bed a glass-covered bed heated for bringing forward plants rapidly: any place favourable to rapid growth or development as 'a hotbed of vice ' &c.; Hot′blast a blast of heated air blown into a furnace to raise the heat.—adjs. Hot′-blood′ed having hot blood: high-spirited: irritable; Hot′-brained hot-headed rash and violent.—n. Hot′-cock′les an old game in which a person is blindfolded and being struck guesses who strikes him; Hot′-flue a drying-room.—adj. Hot′-head′ed hot in the head: having warm passions: violent: impetuous.—n. Hot′-house a house kept hot for the rearing of tender plants: any heated chamber or drying-room esp. that where pottery is placed before going into the kiln: (Shak.) a brothel.—adv. Hot′ly.—adj. Hot′-mouthed headstrong.—n. Hot′ness; Hot′-pot a dish of chopped mutton seasoned and stewed with sliced potatoes.—v.t. Hot′press to press paper &c. between hot plates to produce a glossy surface.—adjs. Hot′-short brittle when heated; Hot′-spir′ited having a fiery spirit.—n. one pressing his steed with spurs as in hot haste: a violent rash man.—adj. Hot′-tem′pered having a quick temper.—ns. Hot′-trod the hot pursuit in old Border forays; Hot′-wall a wall enclosing passages for hot air affording warmth to fruit-trees trained against it when needed; Hot′-well in a condensing engine a reservoir for the warm water drawn off from the condenser.—Hot coppers (see Copper); Hot cross-buns (see Cross); Hot foot with speed fast; In hot water in a state of trouble or anxiety; Make a place too hot to hold a person to make it impossible for him to stay there.

Typist: Marietta