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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | burning |
| Synonyms: | glowing, heated, scorching, sizzling, sweltering |
| Main Entry: | red-hot |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | zealous |
| Synonyms: | eager, enthusiastic, excited, fanatical, heated, impassioned, passionate |
| Main Entry: | red-hot |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | raging |
| Synonyms: | extreme, furious, intense, vehement, violent |
| Main Entry: | red-hot |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | newest |
| Synonyms: | au courant, contemporary, fresh, hippest, latest, mod, modern, most recent |
| Main Entry: | boiling |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very hot |
| Synonyms: | baking, blistering, broiling, burning, fiery, hot, red-hot, roasting, scalding, scorching, sizzling, torrid, tropical, warm |
| Antonyms: | freezing |
| Main Entry: | broiling |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very hot |
| Synonyms: | baking, burning, fiery, on fire, red-hot, roasting, scalding, scorching, sizzling, sweltering, torrid |
| Antonyms: | freezing |
| Main Entry: | burning |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | blazing, flashing |
| Synonyms: | afire, aflame, alight, blistering, broiling, conflagrant, enkindled, fiery, flaming, flaring, gleaming, glowing, heated, hot, ignited, illuminated, in flames, incandescent, kindled, on fire, oxidizing, red-hot, scorching, searing, sizzling, smoking, smouldering, torrid, white-hot |
| Antonyms: | cold, cool |
| Main Entry: | burning |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fervent, excited |
| Synonyms: | all-consuming, ardent, blazing, eager, earnest, fervid, feverish, frantic, frenzied, heated, hectic, impassioned, intense, passionate, red-hot, vehement, white-hot, zealous |
| Antonyms: | apathetic, cold, cool, unexcited, unimportant |
| Main Entry: | contemporary |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | modern |
| Synonyms: | abreast, au courant, contempo, current, existent, extant, hot off press, in fashion, in vogue, instant, just out, latest, leading-edge, mod, new, newfangled, now, present, present-day, recent, red-hot, state-of-the-art*, today, topical, ultramodern, up*, up-to-date, up-to-the-minute, voguish, with it, à la mode |
| Notes: | contemporary can be predicated of persons, conditions, or events; contemporaneous is predicable only of occurrences or events |
| Antonyms: | old, old-fashioned, past, preceding |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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