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superheated

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of superheated

1 having a notably high temperature

  • certain superheated liquids change to gas with almost explosive violence
Synonyms of superheated

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

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 superheated

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

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

chilled, cooled, refrigerated, unheated

benumbed, numb, shivering
Antonyms of superheated

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

2 having or expressing great depth of feeling

  • a superheated, rancorous argument on how the child should be raised
Synonyms of superheated

ardent, blazing, burning, charged, demonstrative, emotional, fervent, fervid, feverish, fiery, flaming, glowing, hot-blooded, impassioned, incandescent, intense, passional, passionate, perfervid, red-hot, religious, torrid, vehement, warm, warm-blooded
Words Related to superheated

gushing, gushy, maudlin, mawkish, mushy, saccharine, sappy, schmaltzy, sentimental, sloppy, sugary

histrionic, melodramatic

enthusiastic, gung ho, keen, zealous

enamored, infatuated, obsessed

uninhibited, unreserved, unrestrained

frenzied, orgiastic, overemotional, overexcited, overheated
Phrases Synonymous with superheated

on fire
Near Antonyms of superheated

detached, dry, impersonal, objective

reserved, undemonstrative
Antonyms of superheated

cold, cool, dispassionate, emotionless, impassive, unemotional

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