Synonyms of hot

hot 1 of 2

adjective

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• out-of-date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

Phrases Containing hot

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

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Our research turned up two archaic literal meanings