hot
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: hŏt
ipa: /hɒt/
ipa: /hɔt/
enpr: hät
ipa: /hɑt/
rhymes: -ɒt
homophone: haught (cot–caught merger)
Forms: form: hotter
form: hottest
Etymology: From Middle English hot, hat, from Old English hāt (“hot”), from Proto-West Germanic *hait, from Proto-Germanic *haitaz (“hot”), from Proto-Indo-European *keHy- (“hot; to heat”). Cognate with Scots hate, hait (“hot”), North Frisian hiet (“hot”), Saterland Frisian heet (“hot”), West Frisian hjit (“hot”), Dutch heet (“hot”), German Low German heet (“hot”), German heiß (“hot”), Danish hed (“hot”), Swedish het (“hot”), Icelandic heitur (“hot”).
Superseded non-native Middle English chaud, from Old French chaut (“hot”); and early Modern English calent, from Latin calēns (“hot”).
Senses: examples: text: He forgot that the frying pan was hot and burned his hand.
text: It is too hot to be outside.
text: It is hotter in summer than in winter.
text: There was also hairdressing: hairdressing, too, really was hairdressing in those times — no running a comb through it and that was that. It was curled, frizzed, waved, put in curlers overnight, waved with hot tongs;[…].
ref: 1977, Agatha Christie, chapter 4, in An Autobiography, part II, London: Collins, →ISBN:
text: “Everybody is interested in extremes – the hottest, the wettest, the windiest – so creating a database of professionally verified records is useful in that fact alone,” says Randall Cerveny from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).
ref: 2017 June 15, Hiufu Wong, “11 extreme weather records”, in CNN:
text: It is one of the first towns in the United States to purposely stall growth for want of water in a new era of megadroughts. But it could be a harbinger of things to come in a hotter, drier West.
ref: 2021 July 20, Jack Healy, Sophie Kasakove, “A Drought So Dire That a Utah Town Pulled the Plug on Growth”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: Relating to heat and conditions which produce it.
Having or giving off a high temperature.
synonyms: heated
antonyms: word: cold
word: chilled
word: hot
raw_tags: of an object
examples: text: I was so hot from being in the sun too long.
text: Aren't you hot with that thick coat on?
glosses: Relating to heat and conditions which produce it.
Feeling the sensation of heat, especially to the point of discomfort.
raw_tags: of a person or animal
glosses: Relating to heat and conditions which produce it.
Feverish; feeling a high fever.
examples: text: The microphone was hot and the show was on the air.
ref: 2004, Phillip Moore, Sealed for a Purpose, page 213:
text: So I just blurted out, "This is really a fucking way to make a living, huh?" […] The microphone was hot, and I knew I was in trouble. The radio management came to my house and suspended me immediately.
ref: 2013, Larry Munson, Tony Barnhart, From Herschel to a Hobnail Boot: The Life and Times of Larry Munson, Triumph Books, →ISBN, page 52:
text: I leaned forward, still ogling, thinking the camera was off me until the end of the song, but then on went the little red light that meant my camera was hot ...
ref: 2014, Don Carpenter, The Hollywood Trilogy: A Couple of Comedians, The True Story of Jody McKeegan, and Turnaround, Catapult, →ISBN:
text: "Your range is hot, corporal. Wind unchanged. You've got your dope. Fire at will," Hacksaw said, snapping the camera as fast as the motor drive could run ...
ref: 2017, Charles Henderson, Terminal Impact, Penguin, →ISBN, page 8:
text: I join the space-to-ground channel to warn Terry that his mic is hot and that everyone with an internet connection or tuned to NASA TV can hear every word ...
ref: 2017, Scott Kelly, Endurance: My Year in Space, A Lifetime of Discovery, Vintage, →ISBN:
text: "The range is hot, chief. Fire at will." Alex says with a smile as he steps back and puts his shooting ear muffs on. "I'm going to shoot, major."
ref: 2020, A.J. Stone, Project Titan, Page Publishing Inc, →ISBN:
text: I run an inventory, verify all bullets are hot in the chamber. They are. But the showroom prosthetics have all exited attraction mode.
ref: 2020, Ferrett Steinmetz, Automatic Reload: A Novel, Tor Books, →ISBN:
glosses: Active, in use or ready for use (like a bullet or a firing range), turned on (like a microphone or camera).
examples: text: a hot wire
glosses: Active, in use or ready for use (like a bullet or a firing range), turned on (like a microphone or camera).
Electrically charged.
synonyms: live
antonyms: neutral
dead
glosses: Active, in use or ready for use (like a bullet or a firing range), turned on (like a microphone or camera).
Radioactive.
examples: text: Be careful, he has a hot temper and may take it out on you.
glosses: Relating to excited emotions.
Easily provoked to anger.
raw_tags: of a temper
examples: text: He saw many hot girls at the concert.
text: That stripper is hot!
glosses: Relating to excited emotions.
Very physically or sexually attractive.
related: word: hawt
word: hott
synonyms: word: alluring
word: appealing
word: appetizing
word: attracting
word: attractive
word: captivating
word: charming
word: coying
word: desirable
word: engaging
word: enticing
word: enticive
word: exciting
word: fascinating
word: fetching
word: heart-robbing
word: hot
word: illecebrous
word: inviting
word: prepossessing
word: seducing
word: seductive
word: smoking hot
word: taking
word: tempting
word: winning
word: winsome
word: attractive
word: beauteous
word: beautifool
word: beautiful
word: beautimous
word: bona vardering
word: bonnie
word: breathtaking
word: captivating
word: comely
word: cute
word: esculent
word: exquisite
word: fair
word: fetching
word: fine-looking
word: good-looking
word: good enough to eat
word: handsome
word: knockout
word: lovely
word: lovesome
word: lustrious
word: nice
word: nice-looking
word: personable
word: physically attractive
word: pretty
word: prettiful
word: pulchritudinous
word: shapely
word: sheen
word: sightly
word: stunning
word: swanlike
word: well-favoured
word: winsome
raw_tags: of a person
examples: text: There was only one problem. Paul was HIV positive. And just a few weeks after his hot encounter with Max, a letter arrived for him, containing some legalese about HIV infection being a criminal act, with a few chilling words
ref: 2010, Rick R. Reed, Moving Toward The Light, →ISBN, page 50:
glosses: Relating to excited emotions.
Sexual or sexy; involving sexual intercourse or sexual excitement.
synonyms: word: alluring
word: arousing
word: attractive
word: bangable
word: beautiful
word: beddable
word: bedworthy
word: bonable
word: bonerific
word: buff
word: delicious
word: desirable
word: doable
word: dreamy
word: effable
word: fanciable
word: fappable
word: fapworthy
word: fine
word: fit
word: fuckable
word: gorgeous
word: hittable
word: horny
word: hot
word: humpable
word: peng
word: provocative
word: raunchy
word: rootable
word: salacious
word: screwable
word: seductive
word: sensual
word: sexable
word: sexalicious
word: sexy
word: shaggable
word: swoonsome
word: tasty
word: toothsome
examples: text: Enough foreplay! You’ve gotten me so hot already!
glosses: Relating to excited emotions.
Sexually aroused; randy.
synonyms: word: ablaze
word: amorous
word: aroused
word: buckish
word: concupiscent
word: desirous
word: DTF
word: excited
word: frisky
word: fuckish
word: gagging for it
word: hard
word: horny
word: hot
word: hot and bothered
word: hot to trot
word: in heat
word: lascivious
word: lewd
word: libidinous
word: lickerish
word: lustful
word: lusty
word: prurient
word: randy
word: ravenous
word: rock hard
word: ruttish
word: rutty
word: sexed up
word: stimulated
word: thirsty
word: toey
word: toey as a Roman sandal
word: turned on
word: unchaste
word: venereal
word: venereous
word: wanton
examples: text: hot for her English teacher
glosses: Relating to excited emotions.
Extremely attracted to.
info_templates: extra_data: words: for
expansion: [with for]
examples: text: He's a hot young player; we should give him a trial.
glosses: Relating to popularity, quality, or the state of being interesting.
Very good, remarkable, exciting.
examples: text: This new pickup is so hot we can't keep it in stock!
text: And in 1975 one of the hottest Austin ensembles was the posthippie western swing revivalist group known as Asleep at the Wheel.
ref: 2010, Andy Bradley, Roger Wood, House of Hits, page 206:
glosses: Relating to popularity, quality, or the state of being interesting.
Popular; in demand.
examples: text: a hot topic
text: The bluebloods of golf began pouring into the sweltering nation’s capital yesterday for the 64th U.S. Open championship, and the hottest topic was not Arnold Palmer or Jack Nicklaus, but Champagne Tony Lema.
ref: 1964 June 16, “All Eyes On Lema At U.S. Open This Week”, in The Indianapolis Star, volume 62, number 11, Indianapolis, Ind., page 22:
glosses: Relating to popularity, quality, or the state of being interesting.
Of great current interest; provoking current debate or controversy.
examples: text: "Keep going! You're hot tonight!" urged Wally.
ref: 1938, Harold M. Sherman, "Shooting Stars," Boys' Life (March 1938), Published by Boy Scouts of America, p.5
text: The ball lands on the fairway, just a couple of yards in front of the green. "Nice shot Sarah! You're hot today!" Jenny says.
ref: 2002, Peter Krause, Andy King, Play-By-Play Golf, First Avenue Editions, page 55:
glosses: Relating to popularity, quality, or the state of being interesting.
Performing strongly; having repeated successes.
examples: text: A kid can stand in the street and sell newspapers, if the headlines are hot.
ref: 1960, Super Market Institute, Super Markets of the Sixties: Findings, recommendations.- v.2. The plans and sketches, page 30:
text: Some of these publications show signs of hasty production, indicating that they were written while the news was hot.
ref: 2000, David Cressy, Travesties and transgressions in Tudor and Stuart England: tales of discord and dissension, Oxford University Press, page 34:
glosses: Relating to popularity, quality, or the state of being interesting.
Fresh; just released.
examples: text: The car sped along. She kept her foot permanently on the accelerator, and took every corner at an acute angle. Two motorists we passed looked out of their windows outraged as she swept by, and one pedestrian in a lane waved his stick at her. I felt rather hot for her. She did not seem to notice though. I crouched lower in my seat.
ref: 1938, Daphne de Maurier, Rebecca:
text: I've been living here a few weeks and it's starting to get a little hot for me … I've written myself out of several states in the last six years.
ref: 1997, David Wojnarowicz with Amy Scholder, The Waterfront Journals:
text: The police are looking for an anarchist who answers my description, seen leaving the house the day before the fire; there was an explosion[…]So what with one thing and another, His Grace thinks the country a little hot for me now
ref: 1999, Sam Llewellyn, The shadow in the sands, page 68:
text: "Things are a little hot for us in San Francisco. We'll burn the vardo at Drake's Bay and then head to your place." "Things are hot, so you're heading to my place?" "Hot's not a big deal. Just a matter of jurisdiction and time.
ref: 2004, Meredith Blevins, The Hummingbird Wizard, page 197:
text: I'd also thought things might have gotten a little hot for him in Atlantic City, so he'd moved West to its bigger, badder cousin, where he wasn't as well known
ref: 2008, Charlaine Harris with Toni L. P. Kelner, Wolfsbane and Mistletoe, page 287:
glosses: Relating to danger or risk.
Uncomfortable, difficult to deal with; awkward, dangerous, unpleasant.
examples: text: I wouldn't speed through here if I was you. This area is hot this time of night.
glosses: Relating to danger or risk.
Characterized by police presence or activity.
examples: text: hot merchandise
text: The camera was hot. Buying a hot camera was a parole violation.
ref: 2010, Robert Eversz, Burning Garbo: A Nina Zero Novel, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 17:
glosses: Relating to danger or risk.
Stolen.
examples: text: I wouldn't trust him. He gave me a hot check last week.
glosses: Relating to danger or risk.
Not covered by funds on account.
synonyms: rubber
bad
raw_tags: of a draft or check
examples: text: The solider was discharged from the military after he pissed hot for cocaine.
glosses: Relating to danger or risk.
Containing drugs.
raw_tags: of bodily fluids
examples: text: Am I warm yet? — You're hot!
text: He was hot on her tail.
glosses: Very close to finding or guessing something to be found or guessed.
examples: text: This kind of chili pepper is way too hot for my taste.
antonyms: bland
mild
glosses: Spicy, pungent, piquant, as some chilis and other spices are.
raw_tags: of food
qualifier: acoustics
glosses: Loud, producing a strong electric signal for the amplifier or other sound equipment.
examples: text: He was finished in a hot minute.
text: I dated him for a hot second.
glosses: Used to emphasize the short duration or small quantity of something
examples: text: That plane's coming in hot!
text: a hot pass
text: Brace yourselves; we're going in a little hot!
ref: 2007 September 25, Bungie, Halo 3, spoken by Marcus Stacker (Pete Stacker), Microsoft Game Studios, Xbox 360, level/area: The Covenant:
glosses: Extremely fast or with great speed.
raw_tags: of a vehicle or aircraft
Synonyms: word: hot
word: blistering
word: boiling
word: burning
word: heated
word: hissing hot
word: hotter than a pistol
word: hot as hell
word: hot as fire
word: incandescent
word: molten
word: piping hot
word: red-hot
word: scorching
word: toasted
word: toasty
word: scalding
word: searing
word: white-hot
Derived terms: a bit hot
Ainsworth Hot Springs
Alabama hot pocket
as hot as hell
hot as hell
baking hot
blow hot and cold
boiling hot
boiling-hot
burning hot
Castle Hot Springs
catch it hot
get it hot
come in hot
crash hot
crash-hot
domestic hot water
drop like a hot brick
drop like a hot potato
drop like a hot skillet
egghot
egg-hot
firehot
foothot
full-hot
full of hot air
give it to someone hot
give it to someone hot and strong
glowing hot
go hot and cold
go like hot cakes
sell like hot cakes
have the hots for
hissing hot
hot abscess
hot ache
hot adult contemporary
hot air
hot-air balloon
hot air balloon
hot and bothered
hot and cold
hot and heavy
hot and high
hot-and-hot
hot and sour soup
hot as a pistol
hot as blazes
hot as fire
hot as Hades
hot bag
hot band
hot bar
hotbar
hot bean
hot bed
hotbed
hot beef
hot beef injection
hot-beef injection
hot bench
hot blast
hot-blooded
hotblooded
hot boiled beans
hot boot
hot bottle
hot box
hotbox
hot-brain
hot-brained
hot bread kitchen
hot bread shop
hot brown
hot bulb
hotbunk
hot bunk
hot burglary
hot buttered rum
hot-button
hot button
hot cake
hotcake
hot cargo
hot carl
hot cathode
hot cell
hot chair
hot chassis
hot chat
hot check
hot chicken
hot chips
hot chisel
hot chocolate
hot chocolate effect
hot closet
hot-closet
hotcockles
hot cockles
hot cocoa
hot comb
hot coppers
hot corino
hot corner
hot cross bun
hot cupboard
hot curler
hot damn
hot dang
hot dark matter
hot date
hot death
hot desk
hot-desk
hot-desker
hot desker
hot desking
hot diggety
hot diggety dog
hot diggity
hot diggity dog
hot-dip
hot-dipped
hot dipping
hotdish
hot-dog
hot dog
hot empathy
hot end
hot extraction
hot favorite
hot favourite
hot-fire
hotfix
hot-flash
hot flash
hot flush
hot-flue
hot folder
hotfoot
hot from the press
hot off the press
hot fudge
hot fusion
hot genocide
hot girl summer
hot glue
hot glue gun
hot gospeler
hot gospeller
hot gospeling
hot gospelling
hotgun
hot hamburger sandwich
hot hand
hot hatchback
hot hatch
hot-hatch
hot-head
hothead
hotheaded
hot-headed
hot-headedness
hot-hearted
hot hold
hot-hoof
hot-house
hothouse
hot ice
hot-iron test
hot iron test
hot jazz
hot jupiter
hot Jupiter
hot karl
hot-key
hot key
hotkey
hot-knife
hot lab
hot laboratory
Hotlanta
hot lap
hotlapping
hot lava
hot line
hotline
hotlink
hot link
hotlinking
hot lips
hotlist
hot-livered
hotly
hot-making
hot medium
hotmelt
hot melt adhesive
hot melt glue
hot melt
hot-melt adhesive
hot-melt glue
hot mess
hot metal
hot metal typesetting
hot mic
hot mike
hot microphone
hot milk cake
hot mint
hot minute
hot-mix
hot money
hot-mouthed
hot-natured
hot Neptune
hotness
hot nickel
hot off the presses
hot on
hot on someone's heels
hot on the trail
hot panted
hot-panted
hot-pantsed
hot pants
hot particle
hot patch
hot-patch
hotpath
hot pencil
hot pepper
hot pie
hot pink
hot pint
hot piping
hot piss
hotplate
hot plate
hot-plate
hotplug
hot-pluggable
hot pool
hot poop
hot potato
hot-potato routing
hot pot
hot-pot
hotpot
hot-presser
hotpress
hot press
hot-press
hot property
hot pursuit
hot rail
hot reactor
hot refuel
hot rock
hot rodder
hot-rodder
hotrodder
hot rod
hotrod
hot roll
hot rolling
hot sauce
hot-saw
hot saw
hot seal
hot seat
hot second
hot set
hot sheet
hotsheet
hot-sheet motel
hot shift
hot shit
hot shoe
hot shop
hot-short
hot short
hotshot
hot shot
hotski
hot-skull
hot sleeper
hot spare
hot spell
hot-spirited
hot spot
hot spring
Hot Spring County
Hot Springs
Hot Springs County
hotspur
hot squat
hot-stage
hot stamp
hot-stopping
hot stove
hot-stove
hot stove league
hot streak
hot stuff
Hot Sulphur Springs
hot swap
hot-swap
hot-swappable
hot take
hot-takey
hot talk
hot tamale
hot tap
hot tapping
hot tear
hot tearing
hot-tempered
hotten
hotter
hotter than a pistol
hotter than a two dollar pistol
hot ticket
hottie
hot tiger
hotting
hottish
hot toddy
hot top
hot to trot
hot-to-trot
hot trod
hot-trod
hot truck
hot tub
hot-tub
hot tubber
hot-tubber
hot tube
hotty
hot under the collar
hot up
hotwalk
hot wall
hot wallet
hot war
hot wash
hotwash
hot water
hot water bag
hot water bottle
hot water bottle rash
hot water can
hot water heater
hot wave
hot well
Hot Wheel
hot wheel
hot wheels
hot whiskey
hot whisky
hot wiener
hotwife
hot wind
hot wing
hot-wire
hot-wired
hot with
hotword
hot-work
hot work
hot-working
hot yoga
hot ziggety
hot zone
I'm hot
in hot pursuit
in the hot seat
like a cat on a hot tin roof
like a cat on hot bricks
like a hen on a hot griddle
like a hot knife through butter
like hot cakes
like throwing a hot dog down a hallway
make it hot for
make things hot for
more than someone has had hot dinners
Nashville hot chicken
nonhot
not so hot
not-so-hot
one-hot
overhot
piping hot
process hot water
red hot
red-hot
red-hot minute
red-hot poker
run hot
run hot and cold
scalding hot
scorching hot
searing hot
semihot
shit-hot
shit hot
smoking hot
steaming hot
strike the iron while it's hot
strike while the iron is hot
superhot
the devil to pay and no pitch hot or ready
three hots and a cot
too hot for
too hot to handle
too hot to hold
ugly hot
ultrahot
ultra-hot jupiter
unhot
warm-hot intergalactic medium
white-hot
white hot
Related terms: word: warm
word: sexy
word: spicy