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hot and cold

hot and cold adjective: ambivalent; having conflicting emotions.

Adjective

hot and cold (not comparable)

  1. (idiomatic) Ambivalent; having conflicting emotions.
    • They went hot and cold about the proposal for a whole year, before finally saying no.

hot and cold meaning in Bengali

hot and cold in Bengali

দ্বিধাগ্রস্ত, পরস্পরবিরোধী আবেগ থাকা

Words formed from hot and cold

Questions about hot and cold

What does hot and cold mean?
Hot and cold means ambivalent; having conflicting emotions.
What is hot and cold in Bengali?
Hot and cold in Bengali is দ্বিধাগ্রস্ত, পরস্পরবিরোধী আবেগ থাকা. See Hot and cold meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is hot and cold?
Hot and cold is an adjective.

Words near hot and cold in the dictionary

  1. hot adult contemporary
  2. hot air
  3. hot air balloon
  4. hot air balloons
  5. hot and bothered
  6. hot and cold
  7. hot and heavy
  8. hot and high
  9. hot and sour soup
  10. hot and sour soups
  11. hot as a pistol

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hot and cold (page history and authors); hot and cold (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). 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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