Synonyms of scorching

scorching 1 of 2

adjective

as in boiling

having a notably high temperature

we keep indoors as much as possible during the day so as to avoid the scorching summer heat

Synonyms & Similar Words

• boiling
• searing
• hot
• burning
• molten
• sweltering
• white-hot
• torrid
• red
• broiling
• heated
• scalding
• fiery
• red-hot
• warmed
• warm
• sultry
• superheated
• roasting
• fervid
• fervent
• blazing
• ardent
• sizzling
• piping hot
• glowing
• seething
• ultrahot
• igneous
• overheated
• steamy
• tropical
• feverish
• toasty
• warmish
• flushed
• muggy
• reheated
• inflamed
• summery
• snug
• enflamed
• summerlike
• canicular

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• cold
• freezing
• icy
• frigid
• frozen
• glacial
• bitter
• arctic
• ice-cold
• iced
• chilly
• cool
• chill
• frosty
• nippy
• snowy
• snappy
• wintry
• bone-chilling
• algid
• cooled
• subzero
• coolish
• wintery
• coldish
• chilled
• unheated
• shivering
• refrigerated
• subfreezing
• benumbed
• numb
• blizzardly

scorching

2 of 2

verb

present participle of scorch

1

as in charring

to burn on the surface

the picnickers kept scorching their marshmallows, deliberately sticking their skewers into the licking flames of the campfire

Synonyms & Similar Words

• charring
• searing
• baking
• singeing
• lighting
• igniting
• kindling
• firing
• inflaming
• incinerating
• enflaming
• scalding
• scathing
• cremating

2

as in drying

to make dry

weeks of drought had badly scorched the soil

Synonyms & Similar Words

• drying
• searing
• parching
• baking
• draining
• dehydrating
• desiccating
• evaporating
• shrivelling
• dehumidifying
• shriveling
• withering
• mummifying
• air-drying
• wizening

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• wetting
• washing
• flooding
• watering
• soaking
• saturating
• drowning
• overflowing
• drenching
• bathing
• dousing
• inundating
• sopping
• moistening
• damping
• dampening
• hydrating
• deluging
• dipping
• waterlogging
• sousing
• submerging
• swamping
• dowsing
• humidifying
• dunking
• rehydrating