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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hot |
| Synonyms: | ardent, baking, blazing, blistering, boiling, broiling, burning, calescent, close, decalescent, febrile, fevered, feverish, feverous, fiery, flaming, heated, humid, igneous, incandescent, like an oven, on fire, ovenlike, parching, piping, recalescent, red*, red-hot, roasting, scalding, scorching, sizzling, smoking, steaming, stuffy, sultry, summery, sweltering, sweltry, thermogenic, torrid, tropic, tropical, very warm, warm, white* |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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: | excruciating |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | torturous, painful |
| Synonyms: | acute, agonizing, burning, chastening, consuming, exquisite, extreme, grueling, harrowing, insufferable, intense, piercing, punishing, racking, rending, searing, severe, sharp, shooting, stabbing, tearing, tormenting, torturesome, torturing, unbearable, unendurable, violent |
| Antonyms: | bearable, endurable, helpful, pleasant, pleasing, soothing |
| Main Entry: | fire |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | burning |
| Synonyms: | blaze, bonfire, campfire, charring, coals, combustion, conflagration, devouring, element, embers, flame and smoke, flames, flare, glow, hearth, heat, holocaust, hot spot, incandescence, inferno, luminosity, oxidation, phlogiston, pyre, rapid oxidation, scintillation, scorching, sea of flames, searing, sparks, tinder, up in smoke, warmth |
| Main Entry: | hot |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very high in temperature |
| Synonyms: | baking, blazing, blistering, boiling, broiling, burning, calescent, close, decalescent, febrile, fevered, feverish, feverous, fiery, flaming, heated, humid, igneous, incandescent, like an oven, on fire, ovenlike, parching, piping, recalescent, red*, roasting, scalding, scorching, searing, sizzling, smoking, steaming, stuffy, sultry, summery, sweltering, sweltry, thermogenic, torrid, tropic, tropical, very warm, warm, white* |
| Antonyms: | cold, cool, freezing, frigid |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | scathing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | nasty, critical in remarks |
| Synonyms: | belittling, biting, brutal, burning, caustic, cruel, cutting, harsh, mordacious, mordant, salty, sarcastic, scorching, scornful, searing, severe, sulphurous, trenchant, withering |
| Antonyms: | generous, kind, nice, praising |
| Main Entry: | scorching |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very hot |
| Synonyms: | blistering, burning, fiery, hot, searing, sizzling, sweltering |
| Main Entry: | baking |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very hot |
| Synonyms: | ardent, baking hot, blistering, boiling, broiling, burning, fiery, hot, piping hot, red-hot, roasting, scalding, scorching, searing, sizzling, steaming, sultry, sweltering, uncomfortably warm, very warm |
| Main Entry: | blistering |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hot |
| Synonyms: | baking, blistery, boiling, broiling, burning, fiery, heated, intense, red-hot, roasting, scalding, scorching, searing, severe, sizzling, sweltering, torrid |
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