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roasting

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of roasting

having a notably high temperature

turn on the air conditioner—the house is roasting today!

Synonyms of roasting

ardent, boiling, broiling, burning, fervent, fervid, fiery, hot, piping hot, red, red-hot, scalding, scorching, searing, sultry, superheated, sweltering, torrid, ultrahot, white-hot

Words Related to roasting

blazing, glowing, igneous, molten, seething, sizzling

heated, overheated, reheated, warmed

snug, toasty, warm, warmish

feverish, flushed, inflamed (also enflamed)

canicular, muggy, steamy, summerlike, summery, tropical

Near Antonyms of roasting

chill, chilly, coldish, cool, coolish, nippy, snappy

blizzardly, frosty, snowy, subfreezing, subzero, wintry (also wintery)

chilled, cooled, refrigerated, unheated

benumbed, numb, shivering

Antonyms of roasting

algid, arctic, bitter, bone-chilling, cold, freezing, frigid, frozen, glacial, ice-cold, iced, icy

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