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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

roasting

verb , present participle of roast

Synonyms and Antonyms of roasting

to make fun of in a good-natured way
  • playfully roasting their mother for her choice of hat
Synonyms of roasting

chaffing, jiving, joking, joshing, kidding, rallying, razzing, ribbing, riding, teasing
Words Related to roasting

bantering

fooling, funning, stringing along

jesting, quipping, wisecracking

gagging, japing, jollying, yukking (or yucking) [slang]
Phrases Synonymous with roasting

goofing on [slang], taking the mickey out of [British]

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