hot
pronunciation
How to pronounce hot in British English:
UK [hɒt]
How to pronounce hot in American English:
US [hɑːt]
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- Adjective:
- used of physical heat; having a high or higher than desirable temperature or giving off heat or feeling or causing a sensation of heat or burning
- characterized by violent and forceful activity or movement; very intense
- extended meanings; especially of psychological heat; marked by intensity or vehemence especially of passion or enthusiasm
- (color) bold and intense
- sexually excited or exciting
- recently stolen or smuggled
- very fast
- wanted by the police
- performed or performing with unusually great skill and daring and energy
- having a piquant burning taste of spices or peppers
- very popular or successful
- very unpleasant or even dangerous
- newest or most recent
- having or bringing unusually good luck
- very good; often used in the negative
- newly made
- capable of quick response and great speed
- having or showing great eagerness or enthusiasm
- of a seeker; near to the object sought
- having or dealing with dangerously high levels of radioactivity
- charged or energized with electricity
- marked by excited activity
Word Origin
- hot
- hot: [OE] Hot is the English member of a family of adjectives widespread in Germanic, but with very few outside relatives. Its first cousins are German heiss, Dutch heet, Swedish het, and Danish hed, which point back to a prehistoric Germanic ancestor *khaitaz (the English noun and verb heat come from the same source). Lithuanian kaisti and Latvian kaist ‘become hot’ are allied forms.=> heat
- hot (adj.)
- Old English hat "hot, flaming, opposite of cold," also "fervent, fierce, intense, excited," from Proto-Germanic *haita- (cognates: Old Saxon and Old Frisian het, Old Norse heitr, Middle Dutch and Dutch heet, German heiß "hot," Gothic heito "heat of a fever"), from PIE root *kai- "heat" (cognates: Lithuanian kaistu "to grow hot"). The association of hot with sexuality dates back to c. 1500. Taste sense of "pungent, acrid, biting" is from 1540s. Sense of "exciting, remarkable, very good" is 1895; that of "stolen" is first recorded 1925 (originally with overtones of "easily identified and difficult to dispose of"); that of "radioactive" is from 1942. Hot flashes in the menopausal sense attested from 1887. Hot air "unsubstantiated statements, boastful talk" is from 1900. Hot stuff for anything good or excellent is by 1889. Hot potato in figurative sense is from 1846. The hot and cold in hide-and-seek or guessing games are from hunting (1640s), with notion of tracking a scent.
Example
- 1. Biosimilars are a hot new area .
- 2. It has been a hot topic of conversation .
- 3. He was also unburned by the hot biodegradable bleach that had covered his body .
- 4. It should feel warm , not hot .
- 5. Grannies inc. is a hot british start-up whose cross-generational platform is based on commerce rather than collaboration .