Hot

//hɔt//

Definitions

adjhotter · hottest

1
Relating to heat and conditions which produce it.
He forgot that the frying pan was hot and burned his hand.
Similar
heated
Opposite
cold
2
Active, in use or ready for use (like a bullet or a firing range), turned on (like a microphone or camera).
The microphone was hot and the show was on the air.

advhotter · hottest

1
Hotly; at a high temperature.
Oak burns hot and lasts a long time. Its smoke is a medium to heavy flavor but not too overpowering. It leaves a buttersmooth, nutty finish.
2

verbhots · hotting · hotted

1
To heat; to make or become hot.
Similar
heat up

nounhots · HOTs

1
A hot meal, usually in the phrase "three hots" (i.e. three hot meals per day) or derivations such as three hots and a cot.
2
Initialism of health over time: a status effect that restores health points as time passes.

Word Origin

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 ha...

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Hot

//hɔt//

Definitions

adjhotter · hottest

1
Relating to heat and conditions which produce it.
He forgot that the frying pan was hot and burned his hand.
Similar
heated
Opposite
cold
2
Active, in use or ready for use (like a bullet or a firing range), turned on (like a microphone or camera).
The microphone was hot and the show was on the air.

advhotter · hottest

1
Hotly; at a high temperature.
Oak burns hot and lasts a long time. Its smoke is a medium to heavy flavor but not too overpowering. It leaves a buttersmooth, nutty finish.
2

verbhots · hotting · hotted

1
To heat; to make or become hot.
Similar
heat up

nounhots · HOTs

1
A hot meal, usually in the phrase "three hots" (i.e. three hot meals per day) or derivations such as three hots and a cot.
2
Initialism of health over time: a status effect that restores health points as time passes.

Word Origin

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 ha...

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chilled

algid

Rapidly, quickly.

Whatever happened, braking into the next-to-last hairpin, a blue-sky turn called Cog Cut, Durelle went in too hot.

3

While shooting, while firing one's weapon(s).

to come in hot; to go in hot

2

To become lively or exciting.

Turf war's hotting up.

Opposite

DOT