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Hot

adjective

(compar. hotter; superl. hottest)

1.

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. "Hot water" , "A hot August day" , "A hot stuffy room" , "She's hot and tired" , "A hot forehead"

2.

Characterized by violent and forceful activity or movement; very intense. Synonym: raging. "A hot engagement" , "A raging battle" , "The river became a raging torrent"

3.

Extended meanings; especially of psychological heat; marked by intensity or vehemence especially of passion or enthusiasm. "A hot topic" , "A hot new book" , "A hot love affair" , "A hot argument"

4.

(color) bold and intense.

5.

Sexually excited or exciting. "Hot pants"

6.

Recently stolen or smuggled. "A hot car"

7.

Very fast; capable of quick response and great speed. Synonyms: blistering, red-hot. "A blistering pace" , "Got off to a hot start" , "In hot pursuit" , "A red-hot line drive"

8.

Wanted by the police.

9.

Producing a burning sensation on the taste nerves. Synonym: spicy. "Jalapeno peppers are very hot"

10.

Performed or performing with unusually great skill and daring and energy. "He's hot tonight"

11.

Very popular or successful. "Cabbage patch dolls were hot last season"

12.

Very unpleasant or even dangerous. "In the hot seat" , "In hot water"

13.

Newest or most recent. Synonym: red-hot. "Red-hot information"

14.

Having or bringing unusually good luck. "The dice are hot tonight"

15.

Very good; often used in the negative.

16.

Newly made.

17.

Having or showing great eagerness or enthusiasm.

18.

Of a seeker; very near to the object sought.

19.

Having or dealing with dangerously high levels of radioactivity. "A hot laboratory"

20.

Charged or energized with electricity. Synonym: live. "A live wire"

21.

Marked by excited activity.

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"Hot" Quotes from Famous Books

... nature which we have to work against. The plain truth is that people want war. They want it anyhow; for itself, and apart from each and every possible consequence. It is the final bouquet of life's fireworks. The born soldiers want it hot and actual. The non-combatants want it in the background, and always as an open possibility, to feed imagination on and keep excitement going. Its clerical and historical defenders fool themselves when they talk as they do about it. ...

— Memories and Studies • William James

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... quoted, "that if a woman looked about for a man to advise her, she'd find him! And as I sit here now, in this lovely home, I think—isn't it sweeter and wiser and better this way? For a while,—because I was a hot-headed, rebellious girl!—I couldn't see that he was right. I had had a disappointment, you know," she went on, her kind, mild eyes watering. Genevieve, who had been gazing in some astonishment at the once hot-headed, rebellious girl, sighed sympathetically. Every one knew ...

— The Sturdy Oak - A Composite Novel of American Politics by Fourteen American Authors • Samuel Merwin, et al.

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... this refuge, not a living form appeared to dispute his sovereignty of the desert world. His feet sank deep in the sand, then trod lightly over vast stretches of short sun-burned mesquit, then again traversed hot shifting reaches of naked sand. The mountains seemed to recede as he advanced, and at times stifling dust and relentless heat threatened to overpower him. With dogged determination he told himself that he might be forced to drop from utter exhaustion, but it would not be yet—not ...

— Lahoma • John Breckenridge Ellis

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... thoughts. A sudden flush swept over her face and neck and she dropped her eyes. Silently I placed a chair for her; as she took it, her bare arm rested against my hand. The effect on me, in the stress of my feelings at that moment, is indescribable. I know I gasped—and my throat got hot and my heart ...

— The Colonel of the Red Huzzars • John Reed Scott

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... the money into their pockets to keep them to the work; and they got it out of some of Leveston's seamen in Savannah that he had gone a long cruise in one of his barques to Rio, and even farther south. This news was like red-hot iron to my head. I knew that I couldn't touch the man by law, except for the robbery of the bit of money, and that I didn't care a brass button about. What I meant to have was his life, and I swore that no ...

— The Iron Pirate - A Plain Tale of Strange Happenings on the Sea • Max Pemberton

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