Synonyms of hot

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adjective

ˈhät 

1

as in boiling

having a notably high temperature

the casserole, just out of the oven, was too hot to eat

Synonyms & Similar Words

• boiling
• searing
• molten
• burning
• heated
• red
• warm
• warmed
• white-hot
• scorching
• sweltering
• sultry
• torrid
• broiling
• superheated
• red-hot
• roasting
• scalding
• fervent
• fervid
• fiery
• piping hot
• ardent
• blazing
• sizzling
• glowing
• ultrahot
• igneous
• seething
• overheated
• steamy
• tropical
• warmish
• toasty
• muggy
• reheated
• flushed
• feverish
• inflamed
• summery
• snug
• enflamed
• summerlike
• canicular

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• cold
• icy
• freezing
• frigid
• frozen
• iced
• cool
• bitter
• glacial
• arctic
• ice-cold
• chilly
• chill
• snowy
• frosty
• nippy
• snappy
• cooled
• wintry
• algid
• coolish
• subzero
• wintery
• chilled
• bone-chilling
• coldish
• unheated
• refrigerated
• shivering
• subfreezing
• numb
• benumbed
• blizzardly

2

as in modern

being or involving the latest methods, concepts, information, or styles

this spring it's the cool shades of lipstick that are hot

Synonyms & Similar Words

• modern
• new
• contemporary
• stylish
• fashionable
• designer
• current
• latest
• modernistic
• red-hot
• new age
• newfangled
• modernized
• ultramodern
• futuristic
• up-to-date
• present-day
• state-of-the-art
• mod
• up-to-the-minute
• new-fashioned
• recent
• space-age
• updated
• now
• last
• nouvelle
• happening
• modish
• in
• high-tech
• hi-tech
• latter-day

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• old
• old-fashioned
• archaic
• antiquated
• out-of-date
• old-time
• ancient
• dated
• musty
• past
• anachronistic
• fusty
• late
• historical
• former
• aged
• historic
• hoary
• venerable
• olden
• antediluvian
• antique
• retro
• bygone
• age-old
• passé
• retrograde
• obsolete
• outmoded
• oldfangled
• remote
• discarded
• outworn
• old-world
• disused
• forgotten
• timeless
• unmodernized
• ageless
• kaputt
• kaput
• dateless
• moth-eaten

3

as in fashionable

enjoying widespread favor or approval

was surprised to learn that American jazz has long been hot in Russia

Synonyms & Similar Words

• fashionable
• favorite
• popular
• popularized
• large
• pop
• red-hot
• happening
• desirable
• big
• vogue
• famous
• faddish
• in
• preferred
• faddy
• crowd-pleasing
• modish
• voguish
• fabulous
• prominent
• celebrated
• legendary
• selected
• notorious
• liked
• du jour
• famed
• renowned
• important
• outstanding
• wanted
• fabled
• noted
• semipopular
• notable
• remarkable
• leading
• well-known
• significant

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• unpopular
• out
• unfashionable
• rejected
• disliked
• unimportant
• insignificant
• hated
• despised
• detested
• unknown
• washed-up
• obscure
• anonymous
• unexceptional
• inconspicuous
• nameless
• indistinguished

4

as in violent

marked by bursts of destructive force or intense activity

your hot temper is going to get you in trouble

a hot battle for first place in the American League

Synonyms & Similar Words

• violent
• fierce
• ferocious
• turbulent
• furious
• rough
• volcanic
• rabid
• explosive
• vicious
• brutal
• stormy
• tumultuous
• tempestuous
• aggressive
• volatile
• cyclonic
• convulsive
• paroxysmal
• bang-bang
• knock-down-and-drag-out
• hammer-and-tongs
• savage
• knock-down, drag-out
• hostile
• blood-and-guts
• contentious
• mad
• destructive
• antagonistic
• barbarous
• frantic
• combustible
• belligerent
• combative
• pugnacious
• assertive
• agitated
• bellicose
• truculent
• frenzied
• quarrelsome
• gladiatorial
• cataclysmic
• ruinous
• cataclysmal

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• peaceful
• peaceable
• calm
• nonviolent
• serene
• pacific
• tranquil
• halcyon
• unaggressive
• nonbelligerent

5

as in excited

showing urgent desire or interest

we were hot to get the baseball game started and wished it would stop raining

Synonyms & Similar Words

• excited
• avid
• eager
• enthusiastic
• hungry
• anxious
• ardent
• thirsty
• pumped
• keen
• impatient
• nuts
• desirous
• happy
• greedy
• voracious
• solicitous
• interested
• ready
• crazy
• gung ho
• great
• antsy
• juiced
• stoked
• wild
• geeked
• enthused
• chomping at the bit
• champing at the bit
• hopped-up
• athirst
• agog
• hepped up
• raring
• willing
• engaged
• obsessed
• longing
• restless
• glad
• ambitious
• covetous
• craving
• restive
• breathless
• pining
• game
• appetent
• hankering
• amenable
• disposed
• hung up
• unreluctant
• inclined

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• indifferent
• casual
• apathetic
• unenthusiastic
• uninterested
• disinterested
• nonchalant
• aloof
• unconcerned
• detached
• lukewarm
• incurious
• insouciant
• impassive
• reluctant
• stolid
• languid
• unwilling
• uneager
• languorous
• lackadaisical
• hesitant
• averse
• spiritless
• halfhearted
• loath
• loth
• disinclined
• loathe

6

as in sexy

sexually attractive

my sisters only watched the game because they think the outfielder is hot

Synonyms & Similar Words

• sexy
• desirable
• toothsome
• luscious
• seductive
• dishy
• foxy
• nubile
• bodacious
• hunky
• alluring
• sultry
• studly
• vampish
• vampy

7

as in angry

feeling or showing anger

you don't have to get all hot about it

Synonyms & Similar Words

• angry
• ballistic
• indignant
• mad
• enraged
• outraged
• furious
• infuriated
• angered
• infuriate
• sore
• steaming
• passionate
• rabid
• hot under the collar
• irritable
• bent out of shape
• in a huff
• irate
• inflamed
• hopping mad
• annoyed
• wrathful
• foaming
• blue in the face
• livid
• fuming
• fit to be tied
• in a pet
• incensed
• riled
• choleric
• in a fume
• apoplectic
• ireful
• enflamed
• hopping
• cheesed off
• horn-mad
• sizzling
• going crook
• wroth
• aggravated
• shirty
• boiling
• ticked
• steamed up
• roiled
• exasperated
• riley
• smoldering
• unpleasant
• cold
• rankled
• smouldering
• teed off
• icy
• frigid
• cross
• burning
• seething
• stormy
• virulent
• antagonistic
• vindictive
• acrid
• disagreeable
• bristling
• acrimonious
• spiteful
• vengeful
• embittered
• cool
• sulky
• worked up
• distant
• malevolent
• bristly
• ranting
• antisocial
• vitriolic
• huffy
• inflammable
• resentful
• unfriendly
• rancorous
• wrought (up)
• raving
• inimical
• testy
• petulant
• antipathetic
• peevish
• touchy
• cantankerous
• grumpy
• bitter
• perturbed
• irascible
• bilious
• fretful
• grouchy
• belligerent
• snappish
• crabby
• disapproving
• pugnacious
• churlish
• dyspeptic
• ornery
• contentious
• soreheaded
• bearish
• cranky
• fussy
• querulous
• ill-tempered
• contrary
• quarrelsome
• piqued
• sorehead
• argumentative
• ill-humored
• put out
• quick-tempered
• disputatious

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• accepting
• pleased
• delighted
• agreeable
• friendly
• amenable
• happy
• accommodating
• content
• cordial
• complaisant
• satisfied
• sympathetic
• angerless
• amicable
• sweet
• obliging
• pleasant
• tolerant
• calm
• kind
• empathetic
• pacific
• serene
• tranquil
• understanding
• placid
• amiable
• peaceable
• genial
• easygoing
• affable
• good-natured
• unembittered
• good-tempered

8

as in rapid

moving, proceeding, or acting with great speed

bought a hot new car that should tear up the roadways

Synonyms & Similar Words

• rapid
• brisk
• quick
• fast
• galloping
• swift
• lightning
• rattling
• blistering
• whirlwind
• speedy
• breathless
• hasty
• flying
• nippy
• dizzy
• splitting
• zippy
• rapid-fire
• hurried
• fleet
• snappy
• accelerated
• at speed
• breakneck
• ready
• rushed
• fleet-footed
• strong
• vigorous
• expeditious
• breathtaking
• energetic
• strenuous
• high-speed
• prompt
• rush
• quickened
• hastened
• ultrafast
• ultrarapid

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• slow
• sluggish
• languid
• crawling
• dragging
• pokey
• lingering
• poky
• unhurried
• laggard
• leisurely
• deliberate
• plodding
• late
• dallying
• measured
• slowish
• tardy
• poking
• dilatory
• dillydallying
• dawdling
• ultraslow

9

as in excellent

of the very best kind

since you're guilty as hell, you'd better get a hot lawyer

Synonyms & Similar Words

• excellent
• lovely
• beautiful
• wonderful
• awesome
• great
• terrific
• fabulous
• superb
• fantastic
• stellar
• prime
• cool
• marvellous
• marvelous
• fine
• famous
• classic
• heavenly
• neat
• quality
• slick
• sensational
• brave
• top
• good
• divine
• splendid
• cracking
• groovy
• topping
• peachy
• high-class
• superior
• dandy
• first-class
• swell
• exceptional
• nifty
• too much
• fab
• first-rate
• top-notch
• choice
• superlative
• dynamite
• par excellence
• immense
• dope
• keen
• sterling
• top-shelf
• capital
• frontline
• banner
• mean
• grand
• out of this world
• noble
• gone
• decent
• blue-ribbon
• radical
• prize
• blue-chip
• crackerjack
• number one
• boss
• righteous
• first-string
• unsurpassed
• topflight
• primo
• No. 1
• supernal
• bumper
• out-of-sight
• down
• special
• better
• bully
• fantabulous
• gangbuster
• gangbusters
• peachy keen
• phat
• wizard
• A1
• bonny
• tip-top
• hype
• adequate
• top-of-the-line
• bang-up
• bonnie
• okay
• jim-dandy
• acceptable
• gilt-edge
• corking
• A-OK
• satisfactory
• brag
• boffo
• prizewinning
• five-star
• four-star
• traditional
• tolerable
• numero uno
• OK
• classical
• fancy
• all right
• gilt-edged
• premium
• passable
• high-grade
• select
• high-test
• standard
• superfine

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• poor
• terrible
• awful
• rotten
• lousy
• pathetic
• wretched
• vile
• bad
• atrocious
• unsatisfactory
• inferior
• substandard
• low-grade
• execrable
• mediocre
• second-class
• middling
• second-rate

10

as in passionate

having a strong sexual desire

he admitted that the nude photos made him hot

Synonyms & Similar Words

• passionate
• horny
• aroused
• lustful
• excited
• randy
• salacious
• lascivious
• libidinous
• itchy
• licentious
• corrupt
• lewd
• lecherous
• immoral
• lubricious
• oversexed
• lubricous
• concupiscent
• hypersexual
• wanton
• goatish
• satyric
• easy
• degraded
• promiscuous
• fast
• loose
• dissolute
• indecent
• degenerate
• depraved
• dissipated
• libertine
• debauched
• decadent
• debased
• demoralized

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• frigid
• pure
• moral
• virtuous
• decent
• modest
• chaste
• immaculate
• celibate
• monastic
• undersexed
• monkish
• virginal
• innocent
• maidenly
• Victorian
• puritanical
• prudish
• prim
• priggish
• lily-white
• straitlaced
• straightlaced

hot

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adverb

as in fast

with great speed

workers were working hot and heavy to repair the breach in the levee

Synonyms & Similar Words

• fast
• quickly
• rapidly
• quick
• swiftly
• soon
• immediately
• promptly
• swift
• in short order
• by leaps and bounds
• in a hurry
• like a shot
• at full tilt
• hastily
• like wildfire
• briskly
• at full throttle
• speedily
• double-quick
• like gangbusters
• presto
• apace
• hell-for-leather
• a mile a minute
• fleetly
• lickety-split
• full tilt
• chop-chop
• pronto
• abruptly
• vigorously
• readily
• posthaste
• snappily
• recklessly
• suddenly
• impulsively
• impetuously
• energetically
• rashly

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• slowly
• slow
• sluggishly
• deliberately
• lingeringly
• leisurely
• ploddingly
• belatedly
• laggardly
• tardily
• delinquently

Examples of hot in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Adjective

Each night on her Short n’ Sweet Tour, Sabrina Carpenter arrests an audience member for being too hot. —Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 23 Oct. 2024

The Stranger Things actress became the latest person to be faux-arrested by Carpenter for being too hot during the singer's State Farm Arena performance on Tuesday. —EW.com, 23 Oct. 2024

Adverb

In 2019 Bodin Danielsson and Töres Theorell of Stockholm University studied hot-desking offices that skimped on breakout rooms or otherwise didn't have enough space for everyone to find a work space to their liking, and employees were unhappier with this office type. —George Musser, Scientific American, 14 Mar. 2023

Rocket Lab has already hot-fired a Rutherford engine recovered from an Electron flight. —Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 31 Mar. 2023

Phrases Containing hot

• hot (up)
• hot air
• hot dog
• hot stuff
• hot ticket
• hot under the collar
• hot war
• piping hot
• red hot

Video

Hot Mess

Our research turned up two archaic literal meanings