hot
UK /hɒt/ · US /hɑt/ adjective, adverb, verb, noun
Forms hotter hottest hots hotting hotted
- adjective (of an object) Having or giving off a high temperature. “He forgot that the frying pan was hot and burned his hand.”
- adjective (of a person or animal) Feeling the sensation of heat, especially to the point of discomfort. “I was so hot from being in the sun too long.”
- adjective Feverish; feeling a high fever.
- adjective Active, in use or ready for use (like a bullet or a firing range), turned on (like a microphone or camera).
- adjective (US, not comparable) Electrically charged. “a hot wire”
- adjective (informal) Radioactive.
- adjective (figurative, of a factory or production line) In active use at or near capacity. “We need to keep the old drone production line going while it's still hot, or it'll be difficult to restart it.”
- adjective (of a temper) Easily provoked to anger. “Be careful, he has a hot temper and may take it out on you.”
- adverb Hotly; at a high temperature.
- adverb Rapidly, quickly.
- adverb While shooting, while firing one's weapon(s). “to come in hot; to go in hot”
- verb To heat; to make or become hot.
- verb To become lively or exciting.
- noun A hot meal, usually in the phrase "three hots" (i.e. three hot meals per day) or derivations such as three hots and a cot.
Synonyms
heated live alluring appealing appetizing attracting attractive catchy bewitching captivating charming coying desirable enchanting engaging enticing enticive exciting fascinating fetching raging blistering red-hot spicy
Antonyms
cold chilled algid Arctic Baltic boreal brass monkeys brumal chill chilly clay-cold cold as a mackerel
Etymology
From Middle English hot, hoot, from Old English hāt (“hot”), from Proto-West Germanic *hait, from Proto-Germanic *haitaz (“hot”), from Proto-Indo-European *keHy- (“to heat; to become hot”).
Cognate with Yola hoat, hoate, hote (“hot”), West Frisian hjit, hyt (“hot”), Bavarian hoaß (“hot”), Central Franconian heeß (“hot”), Dutch heet (“hot”), German heiss, heiß, heyß (“hot”), Vilamovian haas, haes, hȧś, hǡs (“hot”), Yiddish הייס (heys, “hot”), Danish hed (“hot”), Faroese and Icelandic heitur (“hot”), Norwegian Bokmål and Swedish het (“hot”); also Lithuanian kaitra (“heat”). Related to heat.
Superseded non-native Middle English chaud, from Old French chaut (“hot”); and early Modern English calent, from Latin calēns (“hot”).
Webster’s 1913
- verb of Hote. [Obs.] Spenser.
- adjective Having much sensible heat; exciting the feeling of warmth in a great degree; very warm; --opposed to cold, and exceeding warm in degree; as, a hot stove; hot water or air. "A hotvenison pasty." Shak.
- adjective Characterized by heat, ardor, or animation; easily excited; firely; vehement; passionate; violent; eager.
Etymology [OE. hot, hat, AS. hat; akin to OS. het, D. heet, OHG. heiz, G. heiss, Icel. heitr, Sw. het, Dan. heed, hed; cf. Goth. heito fever, hais torch. Cf. Heat.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “hot”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details