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HOT
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Irregular inflected forms: hotter , hottest
I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Marked by excited activity
Example:
a hot week on the stock market
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active (characterized by energetic activity)
Domain usage:
colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Charged or energized with electricity
Example:
a live wire
Synonyms:
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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 3
Meaning:
Having or dealing with dangerously high levels of radioactivity
Example:
a hot laboratory
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radioactive (exhibiting or caused by radioactivity)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Of a seeker; very near to the object sought
Example:
you are hot
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close; near; nigh (not far distant in time or space or degree or circumstances)
Sense 5
Meaning:
Having or showing great eagerness or enthusiasm
Example:
hot for travel
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eager (having or showing keen interest or intense desire or impatient expectancy)
Sense 6
Meaning:
Very fast; capable of quick response and great speed
Example:
a red-hot line drive
Synonyms:
blistering; hot; red-hot
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fast (acting or moving or capable of acting or moving quickly)
Sense 7
Meaning:
Newly made
Example:
a hot scent
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fresh (recently made, produced, or harvested)
Sense 8
Meaning:
Very good; often used in the negative
Example:
he's hot at math but not so hot at history
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Adjectives
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good (having desirable or positive qualities especially those suitable for a thing specified)
Sense 9
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
Example:
a hot forehead
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hottish (somewhat hot)
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)
sweltering; sweltry (excessively hot and humid or marked by sweating and faintness)
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)
heated; heated up; het; het up (made warm or hot ('het' is a dialectal variant of 'heated'))
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)
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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 10
Meaning:
Extended meanings; especially of psychological heat; marked by intensity or vehemence especially of passion or enthusiasm
Example:
a hot argument
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white-hot (intensely zealous or fervid)
torrid (emotionally charged and vigorously energetic)
sensual; sultry (sexually exciting or gratifying)
red-hot; sizzling (characterized by intense emotion or interest or excitement)
heated (marked by emotional heat; vehement)
fiery; flaming (very intense)
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passionate (having or expressing strong emotions)
Attribute:
emotionalism; emotionality (emotional nature or quality)
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cold (extended meanings; especially of psychological coldness; without human warmth or emotion)
Sense 11
Meaning:
Recently stolen or smuggled
Example:
a hot car
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Adjectives
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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 12
Meaning:
Having or bringing unusually good luck
Example:
the dice are hot tonight
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lucky (having or bringing good fortune)
Sense 13
Meaning:
Newest or most recent
Example:
red-hot information
Synonyms:
hot; red-hot
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new (not of long duration; having just (or relatively recently) come into being or been made or acquired or discovered)
Sense 14
Meaning:
Very unpleasant or even dangerous
Example:
in hot water
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unpleasant (offensive or disagreeable; causing discomfort or unhappiness)
Sense 15
Meaning:
Very popular or successful
Example:
cabbage patch dolls were hot last season
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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 16
Meaning:
Sexually excited or exciting
Example:
hot pants
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Adjectives
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sexy (marked by or tending to arouse sexual desire or interest)
Derivation:
hotness (a state of sexual arousal)
Sense 17
Meaning:
Performed or performing with unusually great skill and daring and energy
Example:
he's hot tonight
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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 18
Meaning:
Producing a burning sensation on the taste nerves
Example:
I like my chili extra spicy
Synonyms:
hot; spicy
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Adjectives
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tasty (pleasing to the sense of taste)
Derivation:
hotness (a hot spiciness)
Sense 19
Meaning:
Characterized by violent and forceful activity or movement; very intense
Example:
the river became a raging torrent
Synonyms:
hot; raging
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violent (acting with or marked by or resulting from great force or energy or emotional intensity)
Sense 20
Meaning:
Wanted by the police
Example:
a hot suspect
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wanted (desired or wished for or sought)
Sense 21
Meaning:
(color) bold and intense
Example:
hot pink
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warm (inducing the impression of warmth; used especially of reds and oranges and yellows when referring to color)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Present simple (first person singular and plural, second person singular and plural, third person plural) of the verb hot
Context examples:
The sun had dried stray shreds of moss, and he was able to warm himself with hot water.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
I know I am; but while the iron is hot, I can strike it vigorously too.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
One of the onlookers, who had been clenching his teeth to suppress hot speech, now spoke up:—
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
Van Helsing's face almost beamed, and as we lifted her from the bath and rolled her in a hot sheet to dry her he said to me:—The first gain is ours!
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
“What do you say to a cup of coffee? hot coffee? piping hot?”
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
"If you're trying to find that last few hot spots," Lindsay says, "rather than screening everyone, the dogs might be good enough to go into the villages to find people."
(The Dog's Nose Knows Malaria, Kevin Enochs/VOA)
This hot air reaches a height of up to 6,000 meters and from there joins the air currents of the Southern Hemisphere.
(Australian bushfire smoke drifts to South America, SciDev.Net)
And all the time, as we were pitching it in red hot, we were keeping the women off him as best we could for they were as wild as harpies.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
I could tell by numerous subtle signs, which might have been lost upon anyone but myself, that Holmes was on a hot scent.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“I trust he has done you no wrong, that you should be so hot against him.”
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
