hot
/hɒt/
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British/hɔt/
hot adjective: having or giving off a high temperature.
Adjective (1)
hot (comparative hotter, superlative hottest)
- Having or giving off a high temperature.
- He forgot that the frying pan was hot and burned his hand.
- It is too hot to be outside.
- Synonyms:
- heated
- Feeling the sensation of heat, especially to the point of discomfort.
- I was so hot from being in the sun too long.
- Aren't you hot with that thick coat on?
- Feverish; feeling a high fever.
- Active, in use or ready for use (like a bullet or a firing range), turned on (like a microphone or camera).
- The microphone was hot and the show was on the air.2004, Phillip Moore, Sealed for a Purpose, page 213
- So I just blurted out, "This is really a fucking way to make a living, huh?" […] The microphone was hot, and I knew I was in trouble. The radio management came to my house and suspended me immediately.2013, Larry Munson, Tony Barnhart, From Herschel to a Hobnail Boot: The Life and Times of Larry Munson, Triumph Books, →ISBN, page 52
- Electrically charged.
- a hot wire
- Radioactive.
- 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.
- Easily provoked to anger.
- Be careful, he has a hot temper and may take it out on you.
- Physically or sexually attractive.
- He saw many hot girls at the concert.
- That stripper is hot!
- Synonyms:
- alluring, appealing, appetizing, attracting, attractive, catchy, bewitching, captivating, charming, coying
- Sexual or sexy; involving sexual intercourse or sexual excitement.
- There was only one problem. Paul was HIV positive. And just a few weeks after his hot encounter with Max, a letter arrived for him, containing some legalese about HIV infection being a criminal act, with a few chilling words2010, Rick R. Reed, Moving Toward The Light, →ISBN, page 50
- Sexually aroused; randy.
- Enough foreplay! You’ve gotten me so hot already!
- Extremely attracted to.
- hot for her English teacher
- Very good, remarkable, exciting.
- He's a hot young player; we should give him a trial.
- Popular; in demand.
- This new pickup is so hot we can't keep it in stock!
- And in 1975 one of the hottest Austin ensembles was the posthippie western swing revivalist group known as Asleep at the Wheel.2010, Andy Bradley, Roger Wood, House of Hits, page 206
- Of great current interest; provoking current debate or controversy.
- a hot topic
- The bluebloods of golf began pouring into the sweltering nation’s capital yesterday for the 64th U.S. Open championship, and the hottest topic was not Arnold Palmer or Jack Nicklaus, but Champagne Tony Lema.1964 June 16, “All Eyes On Lema At U.S. Open This Week”, in The Indianapolis Star, volume 62, number 11, Indianapolis, Ind., page 22
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- Performing strongly; having repeated successes.
- "Keep going! You're hot tonight!" urged Wally.1938, Harold M. Sherman, "Shooting Stars," Boys' Life (March 1938), Published by Boy Scouts of America, p.5
- The ball lands on the fairway, just a couple of yards in front of the green. "Nice shot Sarah! You're hot today!" Jenny says.2002, Peter Krause, Andy King, Play-By-Play Golf, First Avenue Editions, page 55
- Fresh; just released.
- A kid can stand in the street and sell newspapers, if the headlines are hot.1960, Super Market Institute, Super Markets of the Sixties: Findings, recommendations.- v.2. The plans and sketches, page 30
- Some of these publications show signs of hasty production, indicating that they were written while the news was hot.2000, David Cressy, Travesties and transgressions in Tudor and Stuart England: tales of discord and dissension, Oxford University Press, page 34
- Frequently executed.
- Optimise hot code paths first.
- Uncomfortable, difficult to deal with; awkward, dangerous, unpleasant.
- The car sped along. She kept her foot permanently on the accelerator, and took every corner at an acute angle. Two motorists we passed looked out of their windows outraged as she swept by, and one pedestrian in a lane waved his stick at her. I felt rather hot for her. She did not seem to notice...1938, Daphne de Maurier, Rebecca
- I've been living here a few weeks and it's starting to get a little hot for me … I've written myself out of several states in the last six years.1997, David Wojnarowicz with Amy Scholder, The Waterfront Journals
- Characterized by police presence or activity.
- I wouldn't speed through here if I was you. This area is hot this time of night.
- Stolen.
- hot merchandise
- The camera was hot. Buying a hot camera was a parole violation.2010, Robert Eversz, Burning Garbo: A Nina Zero Novel, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 17
- Not covered by funds on account.
- I wouldn't trust him. He gave me a hot check last week.
- Containing drugs.
- The solider was discharged from the military after he pissed hot for cocaine.
- Very close to finding or guessing something to be found or guessed.
- Am I warm yet? — You're hot!
- He was hot on her tail.
- Spicy, pungent, piquant, as some chilis and other spices are.
- This kind of chili pepper is way too hot for my taste.
- Loud, producing a strong electric signal for the amplifier or other sound equipment.
- Used to emphasize the short duration or small quantity of something
- He was finished in a hot minute.
- I dated him for a hot second.
- Extremely fast or with great speed.
- That plane's coming in hot!
- a hot pass
Adverb
hot (comparative hotter, superlative hottest)
- Hotly; at a high temperature.
- Oak burns hot and lasts a long time. Its smoke is a medium to heavy flavor but not too overpowering. It leaves a buttersmooth, nutty finish.2013, Ted Reader, Gastro Grilling: Fired-up Recipes To Grill Great Everyday Meals, Penguin Canada, →ISBN
- Rapidly, quickly.
- Whatever happened, braking into the next-to-last hairpin, a blue-sky turn called Cog Cut, Durelle went in too hot.1994, Cycle World Magazine, page 74
- He went in hotter than he could have, the Cforce snugging him into the bucket seat. At the first switchback, there was already a hundred-foot drop-off […]2009, Dan Vining, Among the Living, Penguin, →ISBN
- While shooting, while firing one's weapon(s).
- to come in hot; to go in hot
- We would pop over the riverbank and come down hot (shooting) on a designated target. […] We started rolling in hot with rockets, then suddenly we started taking fire from the […]2015, Dave Barr, Four Flags, The Odyssey of a Professional Soldier: Part 1: US Marine Corps Vietnam 1969-72, Israeli Defence Force 1975-77, Helion and Company, →ISBN, page 121
Verb
hot (third-person singular simple present hots, present participle hotting, simple past and past participle hotted)
Noun (1)
hot (plural hots)
- 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.
Noun (2) capitalized: HOT
HOT (countable and uncountable, plural HOTs)
- Acronym of hybrid-orientation technology (“CMOS fabrication technology that uses PMOS and NMOS substrates with differing orientations”).
- Acronym of hybrid-orientation technique, a technique that applies the technology.
- Acronym of high-output turbo (turbocharger).
- Acronym of high occupancy or toll lane.
- If a HOT lane alternative is chosen as the preferred alternative (Build Alternatives 4A, 4B. 5A, 5B, 6A, or 6B), then additional advanced HOT lane signs will need to be placed from I-80/El Camino Avenue to I-80/Truxel Road and between US-50/I-5 and US-50/SR-99 (Sac 80 PM M1.4/3.64 and SAC 50 PM...2024 May 1, “Yolo 80 Corridor Improvements Project”, in Caltrans, page 8
- Initialism of health over time: a status effect that restores health points as time passes.
- Antonyms:
- DOT
Adjective (2) capitalized: HOT
HOT (not comparable)
hot meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
hot in Hindi
- of the weather
- गरम garam, गर्म garm
- having a high temperature
- गरम garam, गर्म garm, उष्ण uṣṇa, तपित tapit
- feeling the sensation of heat
- गर्म garm, गरम garam
- feverish — see also febrile, ardent
- गर्म garm, गरम garam
hot in Tamil
- சூடாக
hot in Marathi
- having a high temperature
- गरम garam, तप्त tapta
- spicy
- गरम garam
hot in Urdu
- of the weather
- گَرْم garm
- having a high temperature
- گَرْم garm
- spicy
- تیز tez, تِیکھا tīkhā, مَسالے دار masāle dār
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- hot in Bengali
- গরম gorom
- hot in Telugu
- వేడైన vēḍaina, వెచ్చగా veccagā, మంటగా maṇṭagā
- hot in Malayalam
- ചൂട് cūṭŭ, എരിവ് erivŭ
- hot in Kannada
- ಬಿಸಿ
- hot in Punjabi
- ਗਰਮ
- hot in Gujarati
- ગરમ, ગરમાગરમ
- hot in Odia
- ଗରମ
- hot in Sanskrit
- उष्ण uṣṇa, तप्त tapta
- hot in Sinhala
- රස්නෙ rasne, උණු uṇu
- hot in Assamese
- গৰম gorom, তপত topot, চেঙা seṅa
- hot in Nepali
- तातो tāto
- hot in Pashto
- تودوخي tawdoxi, ګرمي garmi, تود tod, ګرم garëm
- hot in Tagalog
- mainit, nakapapaso
- hot in Arabic
- حَرَّان ḥarrān, حَارّ ḥārr, حَرّ ḥarr, حار ḥārr
- hot in Malay
- panas, hangat, pedas
- hot in Indonesian
- panas, seksi, pedas
- hot in Persian
- گَرْم garm, داغ dâġ, تُنْد tond
- hot in Thai
- ร้อน rɔ́ɔn, มีเสน่ห์ mii-sà-nèe, ตัวร้อน, เผ็ด pèt
- hot in Vietnamese
- nóng, cay
- hot in Myanmar
- ပူ pu, စပ် cap
- Dhivehi
- ހޫނު hūnu
- Kashmiri
- وُشُن vuśun, گَرٕم garụm, تۆت tot
Examples of hot in a sentence
- It is hotter in summer than in winter.
- It is roasting hot in here. Crack a window, please.
- It was curled, frizzed, waved, put in curlers overnight, waved with hot tongs;[…].1977, Agatha Christie, chapter 4, in An Autobiography, part II, London: Collins, →ISBN:
- But it could be a harbinger of things to come in a hotter, drier West.2021 July 20, Jack Healy, Sophie Kasakove, “A Drought So Dire That a Utah Town Pulled the Plug on Growth”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
- I leaned forward, still ogling, thinking the camera was off me until the end of the song, but then on went the little red light that meant my camera was hot ...2014, Don Carpenter, The Hollywood Trilogy: A Couple of Comedians, The True Story of Jody McKeegan, and Turnaround, Catapult, →ISBN:
- I join the space-to-ground channel to warn Terry that his mic is hot and that everyone with an internet connection or tuned to NASA TV can hear every word ...2017, Scott Kelly, Endurance: My Year in Space, A Lifetime of Discovery, Vintage, →ISBN:
Synonyms of hot
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Antonyms
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Forms of hot
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | hotter |
| superlative | hottest |
| Adverb | |
| comparative | hotter |
| superlative | hottest |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | hots |
| present participle | hotting |
| past participle | hotted |
| past | hotted |
| Noun | |
| plural | hots |
| plural | HOTs |
Origin of hot
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”). Cognates 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”).
Words formed from hot
- a bit hot
- Ainsworth Hot Springs
- Alabama hot pocket
- a little pot is soon hot
- as hot as hell
- hot as hell
- baking hot
- blow hot air
- blow hot and cold
- boiling hot
- boiling-hot
- burning hot
- Castle Hot Springs
- catch it hot
- get it hot
- come in hot
- crash hot
- crash-hot
- domestic hot water
- drop like a hot brick
- drop like a hot potato
- drop like a hot skillet
- egg-hot
- egghot
- firehot
- foothot
- full-hot
- full of hot air
- give it to someone hot
- give it to someone hot and strong
- glowing hot
- go hot and cold
- go like hot cakes
- sell like hot cakes
- have the hots for
- hissing hot
- hot abscess
- hot ache
- hot adult contemporary
- hot air
- hot-air balloon
- hot air balloon
- hot-air stove
- hot and bothered
- hot and cold
- hot and heavy
- hot and high
- hot-and-hot
- hot and sour soup
- hot as a pistol
- hot as blazes
- hot as fire
- hot as Hades
- hot as hell's hinges
- hot as the hobs of Hell
- hot bag
- hot band
- hot bar
- hotbar
- hot bean
Phrases with hot
180 more phrasesFewer phrases
- hot pie
- hot pot
- hot rod
- hot saw
- hot set
- hot tap
- hot top
- hot tub
- hot war
- I'm hot
- ran hot
- red hot
- run hot
- hot bags
- hot bars
- hot beds
- hot boot
- hot bulb
- hot bunk
- hot cake
- hot carl
- hot cell
- hot chat
- hot comb
- hot damn
- hot dang
- hot date
- hot desk
- hot dogs
- hot dose
- hot ends
- hot glue
- hot guns
- hot hand
- hot held
- hot hold
- hot jazz
- hot karl
- hot keys
- hot labs
- hot laps
- hot lava
- hot line
- hot link
- hot lips
- hot list
- hot mess
- hot mike
- hot mint
- hot pies
- hot pink
- hot pint
- hot piss
- hot pool
- hot poop
- hot pots
- hot rack
- hot rail
- hot rock
- hot rods
- hot roll
- hot saws
- hot seal
- hot seat
- hot sets
- hot shit
- hot shoe
- hot shop
- hot shot
- hot spot
- hot step
- hot swap
- hot take
- hot talk
- hot taps
- hot tear
- hot tops
- hot trod
- hot tube
- hot tubs
- hot wall
- hot wars
- hot wash
- hot wave
- hot well
- hot wind
- hot wing
- hot with
- hot work
- hot yoga
- hot zone
- piss hot
- runs hot
- shit hot
- ugly hot
- hot bands
- hot beans
- hot bench
- hot blast
- hot boxed
- hot boxes
- hot brown
- hot bulbs
- hot bunks
- hot cakes
- hot cargo
- hot carls
- hot cells
- hot chair
- hot chats
- hot check
- hot chips
- hot cocoa
- hot combs
- hot dates
- hot desks
- hot doggy
- hot doses
- hot flash
- hot flush
- hot fudge
- Hot Gates
- hot glues
- hot hands
- hot hatch
- hot holds
- hot lines
- hot links
- hot media
- hot metal
- hot money
- hot pants
- hot patch
- hot pinks
- hot pints
- hot plate
- hot pools
- hot press
- hot rails
- hot rocks
- hot rolls
- hot sauce
- hot seals
- hot seats
- hot sheet
- hot shift
- hot shoes
- hot shops
- hot short
- hot shots
- hot spare
- hot spell
- hot spots
- hot squat
- hot stamp
- hot steps
- hot stove
- hot stuff
- hot takes
- hot tears
- hot tiger
- hot toddy
- hot trods
- hot truck
- hot tubes
- hot walls
- hot water
- hot waves
- hot wells
- hot wheel
- hot winds
- hot wings
- hot works
- hot zones
- white hot
- hot bedded
- hot blasts
- hot bottle
- hot boxing
- hot browns
Words that rhyme with hot
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- rot
- apricot
- ribat
- bot
- got
- not
- red-hot
- snot
- stot
- tot
- calotte
- jot
- a lot
- allot
- clot
- cot
- fembot
- frot
- mot
- quat
- swot
- white-hot
- begot
- cannot
- forgot
- garrote
- grot
- marotte
- not so hot
- nott
- Nouakchott
- overshot
- piping hot
- scot
- scrot
- sot
- subplot
- swat
- thot
- wot
- yacht
- asquat
- beach ball plot
- besot
- brat
- carotte
- chamotte
- chott
Questions about hot
- What does hot mean?
- Hot means having or giving off a high temperature.
- What is hot in Hindi?
- Hot in Hindi is गरम (garam), गर्म (garm), उष्ण (uṣṇa). See Hot meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use hot in a sentence?
- It is hotter in summer than in winter.
- What part of speech is hot?
- Hot can be an adjective, an adverb, a verb or a noun.
- How do you pronounce hot?
- Hot is pronounced /hɒt/ (UK).
Words near hot in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: hot (page history and authors); HOT (page history and authors); hot (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); hot (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); hot (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); hot (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); hot (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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