HOT STUFF Synonyms: 57 Similar and Opposite Words

hot stuff

noun

Definition of hot stuff

as in something else

something very good of its kind it sounds pretty ordinary now, but their music was hot stuff in its time

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Recent Examples of hot stuff September is no different, and there's tons of hot stuff to choose from this week, including some all-time classics. — K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 28 Aug. 2026 Yeah, who would’ve thought that putting hot stuff up your rectum could be risky. — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes.com, 12 July 2025 There was a time when atomic clocks looked like pretty hot stuff. — David Szondy, New Atlas, 12 Jan. 2025 At the time, Walk Score was hot stuff, building an online product that would quantify walkability by address. — Roger Valdez, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2025 But ketamine, as my colleagues Salvador Hernandez and Richard Winton reported earlier this year, has become hot stuff among the rich and famous. — Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2024 Wednesday warms a bit before the really hot stuff makes a comeback for the Fourth, when shower and storms chance could return as well. — Molly Robey, Washington Post, 30 June 2024

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Noun

The title character and his fellow physicists spend much of their early years refusing to work for the Soviet military machine; building bombs would corrupt the purity and beauty of their science.

— Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 14 Sep. 2026
It’s reflected in toys like squishy NeeDoh cubes and beauty products like jelly cleansers.

— Dee-Ann Durbin, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2026

Definition of beauty

Noun

Each vignette of time reveals how time, our upbringing, and even our individual dreams shape the path of our lives and who ultimately ends up beside us for the ride.

— Emmalee Reed, CNN Money, 6 Sep. 2026
In childhood, in adulthood, in her old age, Evans was besotted by dreams, turbulent, awesome, pictorial dreams.

— Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 5 Sep. 2026

Definition of dream

Noun

Grounded in tragedy and yet evoking a consistent sense of wonder, the lady of the house looks less like a mirror for her husband than a magnifying glass held over his genius and grotesquerie.

— Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 5 Sep. 2026
But most of all, wonder feels scarce because contemporary life has depleted the value of the moment.

— Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 4 Sep. 2026

Definition of wonder

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