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sizzling
| Main Entry: |
sizzling
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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, searing, smoking, steaming, stuffy, sultry, summery, sweltering, sweltry, thermogenic, torrid, tropic, tropical, very warm, warm, white* |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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: | heated |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | warmed |
| Synonyms: | baked, baking, boiling, broiled, broiling, burned, burning, burnt, cooked, fiery, fired, fried, hot, parched, scalding, scorched, scorching, sizzling, toasted |
| Antonyms: | cooled, frozen |
| 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: | rabid |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very angry; maniacal |
| Synonyms: | berserk, bigoted, bitten, corybantic, crazed, crazy, delirious, deranged, enthusiastic, extreme, extremist, fanatical, fervent, flipped, foaming at the mouth, frantic, freaked out, frenetic, frenzied, furious, hot*, infuriated, insane, intemperate, intolerant, irrational, keen, mad, mad-dog, narrow-minded, nutty, obsessed, overboard, poisoned, radical, raging, revolutionary, sick*, sizzling, smoking, steamed up, ultra, ultraist, violent, virulent, wild, zealous |
| Antonyms: | delighted, happy, pleased |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | risqué |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | improper, referring to sex |
| Synonyms: | X-rated, amoral, bawdy*, blue*, breezy, crude, daring, dirty, earthy, erotic, filthy*, foul, gross*, hot*, immodest, immoral, indecent, indecorous, indelicate, indiscreet, inelegant, lewd, lurid, naughty, obscene, off-base, off-color, offensive, out-of-line, provocative, purple*, racy, raw, ribald, salacious, salty, shady, sizzling, smart, smutty, spicy*, suggestive, unrefined, vulgar, wanton, warm, wicked |
| Antonyms: | acceptable, decent, moral, proper |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | sultry |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hot and humid |
| Synonyms: | baking, broiling, burning, close, hot, mucky, muggy, oppressive, red-hot, scorching, sizzling, smothering, soggy, sticky, stifling, stuffy, suffocating, sweltering, sweltry, torrid, wet |
| Antonyms: | cool, dry |
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