English Explanatory Dictionary

hot

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Relating to heat and conditions which produce it.
  2. Having or giving off a high temperature.
  3. Feeling the sensation of heat, especially to the point of discomfort.
  4. Feverish; feeling a high fever.
  5. Active, in use or ready for use (like a bullet or a firing range), turned on (like a microphone or camera).
  6. Electrically charged.
  7. Radioactive.
  8. Relating to excited emotions.
  9. Easily provoked to anger.
  10. Very physically or sexually attractive.
  11. Sexual or sexy; involving sexual intercourse or sexual excitement.
  12. Sexually aroused; randy.
adv
  1. Hotly; at a high temperature.
  2. Rapidly, quickly.
  3. While shooting, while firing one's weapon(s).
verb
  1. To heat; to make or become hot.
  2. To become lively or exciting.
noun
  1. 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
  1. Acronym of hybrid-orientation technology (“CMOS fabrication technology that uses PMOS and NMOS substrates with differing orientations”).
  2. Acronym of hybrid-orientation technique, a technique that applies the technology.
  3. Acronym of high-output turbo (turbocharger).
  4. Acronym of high occupancy or toll lane.
  5. Initialism of health over time: a status effect that restores health points as time passes.
adj
  1. Acronym of high occupancy or toll.

Pronunciation

hŏt /hɒt/ en-uk-hot.ogg /hɔt/ hät /hɑt/ en-us-hot.ogg [hɔ̟t]

Word forms

hot hotter hottest hots hotting hotted

Etymology

From Middle English hot, hat, from Old English hāt (“hot”), from Proto-West Germanic *hait, from Proto-Germanic *haitaz (“hot”), from Proto-Indo-European *keHy- (“hot; to heat”). Cognate with Scots hate, hait (“hot”), North Frisian hiet (“hot”), Saterland Frisian heet (“hot”), West Frisian hjit (“hot”), Dutch heet (“hot”), German Low German heet (“hot”), German heiß (“hot”), Danish hed (“hot”), Swedish het (“hot”), Icelandic heitur (“hot”). Related to heat. Superseded non-native Middle English chaud, from Old French chaut (“hot”); and early Modern English calent, from Latin calēns (“hot”).

Synonyms

hot choleric heated live alluring appealing appetizing attracting attractive bewitching captivating charming coying desirable enchanting engaging enticing enticive exciting fascinating fetching heart-throbbing illecebrous inviting prepossessing seducing seductive taking tempting witching winning winsome beauteous beautifool beautiful beautimous bona vardering bonnie breathtaking comely cute divine esculent exquisite fair fine-looking good-looking good enough to eat handsome heavenly knockout lovely lovesome lustrious nice nice-looking personable pretty prettiful pulchritudinous

Antonyms

chilled chilly cold cold as ice freezing freezing cold frigid glacial ice-cold icy wintry algid Arctic Baltic boreal brass monkeys brumal chill clay-cold cold as a mackerel cold as charity frosty frore frozen gelid hiemal inclement nesh nippy parky polar sleety snowy taters neutral dead bland mild DOT

Related words

sexy spicy hawt hott the hots HOV

Derived words

a bit hot Ainsworth Hot Springs Alabama hot pocket 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 egghot egg-hot 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 hot bed

Translations

Ainu: シㇼポㇷ゚ケ Arabic: حَرَّان Arabic: حَارّ Arabic: حَرّ Arabic: حار Armenian: շոգ Azerbaijani: isti Bashkir: эҫе Belarusian: гара́чы Belarusian: жа́ркі Belarusian: спяко́тны Central Bikol: mainit Bulgarian: горе́щ Catalan: fer calor Cebuano: init Cebuano: alingaang Chinese Cantonese: 熱 /热 Chinese Cantonese: 炎熱 /炎热 Chinese: жә Chinese: 熱 /热 Chinese: 炎熱 /炎热 Chinese: 燒熱 /烧热 Chinese Mandarin: 熱 /热 Chinese Mandarin: 炎熱 /炎热 Czech: horký Danish: hed Danish: varm Dutch: warm Dutch: heet Esperanto: varmega Finnish: kuuma French: faire chaud Galician: facer calor Georgian: ცხელი German: heiß German: warm Greek: κάνει ζέστη Hindi: गरम Hindi: गर्म Hote: (thời tiết)nóng Icelandic: heitur Indonesian: panas Italian: caldo Italian: fare caldo Japanese: 暑い Jeju: 덥다 Kaingang: rỹ Kazakh: ыстық Korean: 덥다 Latvian: karsts Louisiana Creole: sho Macedonian: врел Macedonian: жежок Malay: panas Malayalam: ചൂട് Māori: pūāhuru Ngarrindjeri: waldi
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