Synonyms: hot
Definition: marked by excited activity
Usage: a hot week on the stock market
Similar words: active
Definition: characterized by energetic activity
Usage: an active toddler; active as a gazelle; an active man is a man of action
Definition: charged or energized with electricity
Usage: a hot wire; a live wire
Similar words: charged
Definition: of a particle or body or system; having a net amount of positive or negative electric charge
Usage: charged particles; a charged battery
Synonyms: hot
Definition: having or dealing with dangerously high levels of radioactivity
Usage: hot fuel rods; a hot laboratory
Similar words: radioactive
Definition: exhibiting or caused by radioactivity
Usage: radioactive isotope; radioactive decay; radioactive fallout
Synonyms: hot
Definition: of a seeker; very near to the object sought
Usage: you are hot
Similar words: near, nigh, close
Definition: not far distant in time or space or degree or circumstances
Usage: near neighbors; in the near future; they are near equals; his nearest approach to success; a very near thing; a near hit by the bomb; she was near tears; she was close to tears; had a close call
Synonyms: hot
Definition: having or showing great eagerness or enthusiasm
Usage: hot for travel
Similar words: eager
Definition: having or showing keen interest or intense desire or impatient expectancy
Usage: eager to learn; eager to travel abroad; eager for success; eager helpers; an eager look
Synonyms: red-hot, hot, blistering
Definition: very fast; capable of quick response and great speed
Usage: a hot sports car; a blistering pace; got off to a hot start; in hot pursuit; a red-hot line drive
Similar words: fast
Definition: acting or moving or capable of acting or moving quickly
Usage: fast film; on the fast track in school; set a fast pace; a fast car
Synonyms: hot
Definition: newly made
Usage: a hot scent
Similar words: fresh
Definition: recently made, produced, or harvested
Usage: fresh bread; a fresh scent; fresh lettuce
Synonyms: hot
Definition: very good; often used in the negative
Usage: he's hot at math but not so hot at history
Similar words: good
Definition: having desirable or positive qualities especially those suitable for a thing specified
Usage: good news from the hospital; a good report card; when she was good she was very very good; a good knife is one good for cutting; this stump will make a good picnic table; a good check; a good joke; a good exterior paint; a good secretary; a good dress for the office
Synonyms: hot
Definition: 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
Usage: hot stove; hot water; a hot August day; a hot stuffy room; she's hot and tired; a hot forehead
Similar words: baking, baking hot
Definition: as hot as if in an oven
Similar words: blistering, blistery
Definition: hot enough to raise (or as if to raise) blisters
Usage: blistering sun
Similar words: calefacient, warming
Definition: producing the sensation of heat when applied to the body
Usage: a mustard plaster is calefacient
Similar words: calefactive, calefactory
Definition: serving to heat
Usage: a heating pad is calefactory
Similar words: calorifacient
Definition: producing heat; usually used of foods
Usage: calorifacient chili peppers
Similar words: calorific
Definition: heat-generating
Usage: the calorific properties of fuels
Similar words: fervent, fervid
Definition: extremely hot
Usage: the fervent heat...merely communicated a genial warmth to their half-torpid systems- Nathaniel Hawthorne; set out...when the fervid heat subsides- Frances Trollope
Definition: like or suggestive of fire
Usage: a fiery desert wind; an igneous desert atmosphere
Similar words: heatable
Definition: capable of becoming hot
Usage: the heatable tip of a soldering iron
Similar words: heated, heated up, het, het up
Definition: made warm or hot (`het' is a dialectal variant of `heated')
Usage: a heated swimming pool; wiped his heated-up face with a large bandana; he was all het up and sweaty
Similar words: hottish
Definition: somewhat hot
Similar words: overheated
Definition: heated beyond a safe or desirable point
Usage: the child became overheated; overheated metal
Similar words: red-hot
Definition: glowing red with heat
Similar words: scorching
Definition: hot and dry enough to burn or parch a surface
Usage: scorching heat
Similar words: sizzling
Definition: hot enough to burn with or as if with a hissing sound
Usage: a sizzling steak; a sizzling spell of weather
Similar words: stifling, sulfurous, sulphurous, sultry
Definition: characterized by oppressive heat and humidity
Usage: the summer was sultry and oppressive; the stifling atmosphere; the sulfurous atmosphere preceding a thunderstorm
Similar words: sweltering, sweltry
Definition: excessively hot and humid or marked by sweating and faintness
Usage: a sweltering room; sweltering athletes
Similar words: thermal
Definition: caused by or designed to retain heat
Usage: a thermal burn; thermal underwear
Similar words: torrid
Definition: extremely hot
Usage: the torrid noonday sun; sultry sands of the dessert
Similar words: tropic, tropical
Definition: of weather or climate; hot and humid as in the tropics
Usage: tropical weather
Similar words: white, white-hot
Definition: glowing white with heat
Usage: white flames; a white-hot center of the fire
Synonyms: hot
Definition: extended meanings; especially of psychological heat; marked by intensity or vehemence especially of passion or enthusiasm
Usage: a hot temper; a hot topic; a hot new book; a hot love affair; a hot argument
Definition: very intense
Usage: a fiery temper; flaming passions
Similar words: heated
Definition: marked by emotional heat; vehement
Usage: a heated argument
Similar words: sizzling, red-hot
Definition: characterized by intense emotion or interest or excitement
Usage: a red-hot speech; sizzling political issues
Similar words: sultry, sensual
Definition: sexually exciting or gratifying
Usage: sensual excesses; a sultry look; a sultry dance
Similar words: torrid
Definition: emotionally charged and vigorously energetic
Usage: a torrid dance; torrid jazz bands; hot trumpets and torrid rhythms
Similar words: white-hot
Definition: intensely zealous or fervid
Usage: fierce white-hot loyalty
Synonyms: hot
Definition: recently stolen or smuggled
Usage: hot merchandise; a hot car
Similar words: illegal
Definition: prohibited by law or by official or accepted rules
Usage: an illegal chess move
Synonyms: hot
Definition: having or bringing unusually good luck
Usage: hot at craps; the dice are hot tonight
Definition: newest or most recent
Usage: news hot off the press; red-hot information
Similar words: new
Definition: not of long duration; having just (or relatively recently) come into being or been made or acquired or discovered
Usage: a new law; new cars; a new comet; a new friend; a new year; the New World
Synonyms: hot
Definition: very unpleasant or even dangerous
Usage: make it hot for him; in the hot seat; in hot water
Similar words: unpleasant
Definition: disagreeable to the senses, to the mind, or feelings
Usage: an unpleasant personality; unpleasant repercussions; unpleasant odors
Synonyms: hot
Definition: very popular or successful
Usage: one of the hot young talents; cabbage patch dolls were hot last season
Similar words: popular
Definition: regarded with great favor, approval, or affection especially by the general public
Usage: a popular tourist attraction; a popular girl; cabbage patch dolls are no longer popular
Synonyms: hot
Definition: sexually excited or exciting
Usage: was hot for her; hot pants
Similar words: sexy
Definition: marked by or tending to arouse sexual desire or interest
Usage: feeling sexy; sexy clothes; sexy poses; a sexy book; sexy jokes
Synonyms: hot
Definition: performed or performing with unusually great skill and daring and energy
Usage: a hot drummer; he's hot tonight
Similar words: skilled
Definition: having or showing or requiring special skill
Usage: only the most skilled gymnasts make an Olympic team; a skilled surgeon has many years of training and experience; a skilled reconstruction of her damaged elbow; a skilled trade
Definition: producing a burning sensation on the taste nerves
Usage: hot salsa; jalapeno peppers are very hot
Definition: characterized by violent and forceful activity or movement; very intense
Usage: the fighting became hot and heavy; a hot engagement; a raging battle; the river became a raging torrent
Similar words: violent
Definition: acting with or marked by or resulting from great force or energy or emotional intensity
Usage: a violent attack; a violent person; violent feelings; a violent rage; felt a violent dislike
Synonyms: hot
Definition: wanted by the police
Usage: a hot suspect
Similar words: wanted
Definition: desired or wished for or sought
Usage: couldn't keep her eyes off the wanted toy; a wanted criminal; a wanted poster
Synonyms: hot
Definition: (color) bold and intense
Usage: hot pink
Similar words: warm
Definition: (color) inducing the impression of warmth; used especially of reds and oranges and yellows
Usage: warm reds and yellows and orange