Nearby Words
| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | suffocate |
| Synonyms: | boil, broil, fry, perspire, roast, sweat, wilt |
| Main Entry: | broil |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cook under direct heat |
| Synonyms: | burn, melt, roast, scorch, sear, swelter |
| Antonyms: | freeze |
| Main Entry: | heat |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | high temperature |
| Synonyms: | calefaction, calidity, dog days, fever, fieriness, greenhouse effect, heatwave, hot spell, hot weather, hotness, incalescence, incandescence, sultriness, swelter, torridity, torridness, warmness, warmth |
| Antonyms: | cold, cool |
| Main Entry: | heat |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make or become hot |
| Synonyms: | bake, bask, blaze, boil, broil, calorify, chafe, char, enflame, enkindle, fire, flame, flush, frizzle, fry, glow, grill, grow hot, grow warm, ignite, incandesce, incinerate, inflame, kindle, melt, oxidate, oxidize, perspire, raise the temperature, reheat, roast, scald, scorch, sear, seethe, set on fire, singe, smelt, steam, sun, swelter, tepefy, thaw, toast, warm, warm up |
| Antonyms: | cool, freeze |
| Main Entry: | humidity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | very damp weather |
| Synonyms: | clamminess, dampness, dankness, dew, dewiness, evaporation, fogginess, heaviness, humectation, humidness, moistness, moisture, mugginess, oppressiveness, sogginess, steam, steaminess, stickiness, sultriness, sweatiness, swelter, thickness, vaporization, wet, wetness |
| Antonyms: | aridity, dryness |
| Main Entry: | ooze |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | emit liquid |
| Synonyms: | bleed, discharge, drain, dribble, drip, drop, escape, exude, filter, flow, issue, leach, leak, overflow, percolate, perspire, seep, spurt, strain, sweat, swelter, trickle, weep, well |
| Main Entry: | perspire |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | become wet with sweat |
| Synonyms: | be damp, be wet, break a sweat, drip, exude, get in a lather, glow, lather, pour, secrete, swelter |
| Antonyms: | dry |
| Main Entry: | scorch |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | burn |
| Synonyms: | bake, blacken, blister, broil, char, cook, melt, parch, roast, scald, sear, seethe, shrivel, simmer, singe, stale, stew, swelter, wither |
| Antonyms: | freeze |
| Main Entry: | sweat |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | perspire |
| Synonyms: | break out in a sweat, drip, eject, exude, glow, ooze, secrete, seep, spout, swelter, transude, wilt |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
Cite This Source
Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
Cite This Source
Copyright © 2013 Dictionary.com, LLC. All rights reserved.
