hot

Meaning

Adj

1. Relating to heat and conditions which produce it.
2. Relating to heat and conditions which produce it.
3. Relating to heat and conditions which produce it.
4. Active, in use or ready for use (like a bullet or a firing range), turned on (like a microphone or camera).
5. (US, not-comparable) Active, in use or ready for use (like a bullet or a firing range), turned on (like a microphone or camera).
6. (informal) Active, in use or ready for use (like a bullet or a firing range), turned on (like a microphone or camera).
7. (figuratively) Relating to excited emotions.
8. (colloquial, figuratively) Relating to excited emotions.
9. (colloquial, figuratively) Relating to excited emotions.
10. (figuratively, slang) Relating to excited emotions.
11. (figuratively, slang) Relating to excited emotions.
12. (informal) Relating to popularity, quality, or the state of being interesting.
13. Relating to popularity, quality, or the state of being interesting.
14. Relating to popularity, quality, or the state of being interesting.
15. Relating to popularity, quality, or the state of being interesting.
16. Relating to popularity, quality, or the state of being interesting.
17. Relating to danger or risk.
18. (slang) Relating to danger or risk.
19. (slang) Relating to danger or risk.
20. (not-comparable, slang) Relating to danger or risk.
21. (slang) Relating to danger or risk.
22. Very close to finding or guessing something to be found or guessed.
23. Spicy, pungent, piquant, as some chilis and other spices are.
24. Loud, producing a strong electric signal for the amplifier or other sound equipment.
25. (slang) Used to emphasize the short duration or small quantity of something
26. (slang) Extremely fast or with great speed.

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

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.

Opposite of

cold, chilled, hot, neutral, dead, bland, mild

Synonyms

warm

☀️

spicy

heat

burning

pungent

sultry

peppery

heated

torrid

scorching

ardent

feverish

burn

intense

passionate

sharp

fresh

strong

biting

sweltering

fervent

red-hot

very warm

popular

piquant

become hot

raging

fiery

fervid

vehement

fast

sexy

warmth

absorbing

close

very hot

thermal

sun

🌞

thrilling

sizzling

fierce

fascinating

recent

excited

sunny

☀️

exciting

boiling

pricking

boil

blistering

Translations

chaud

☀️

caliente

🥵

heiß

🥵

caldo

☀️

heet

🥵

quente

🥵

piccante

scharf

ζεστός

warm

☀️

cálido

☀️

warm

☀️

calent

🥵

ardent

Pronounced as (IPA)

/hɒt/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: hot

Inherited from Old English: hāt

Cognate with Scots: hate

Cognate with Northern Frisian: hiet

Cognate with Saterland Frisian: heet

Cognate with Western Frisian: hjit

In summary

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”).
Superseded non-native Middle English chaud, from Old French chaut (“hot”); and early Modern English calent, from Latin calēns (“hot”).

Sentences

It was , however , still so hot from its flight through the air .

I like the city , but in July it is too hot .

Wanning is hot most of the year .

The wide road shimmered in the hot sun .