hotadjective
uk/hɒt/us/hɑːt/hotter, hottesthot adjective (VERY WARM)
A1 having a high temperature:
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- In hot weather, we sell masses of cold drinks and ice creams.
- Do you want this pie hot?
- Is the water hot enough for a bath?
- She passed him a mug of hot black coffee.
- I like to sunbathe in the morning when the sun is not so hot.
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Hot & heat
- beat
- boil
- boiling
- burn
- burning
- closeness
- fug
- heat
- heating
- heatwave
- overheat
- red-hot
- roasting
- sizzling
- steaming
- stifling
- stuffy
- sweltering
- thermo-
- torrid
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hot adjective (SPICY)
B1 used to describe food that causes a burning feeling in the mouth:
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- I love Creole cooking, so hot and spicy.
- He doesn't like a hot curry - he prefers a mild one.
- This particular dish is extremely hot - be warned!
- He covered the meat in a hot chilli sauce.
- Only use a small amount of this curry powder - it's hotter than the type we usually use.
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Flavours - spicy
- fiery
- ginger
- mild
- peppery
- piquant
- spicy
hot adjective (CAUSING DISAGREEMENT)
C1 used to describe a subject that causes a lot of disagreement or discussion:
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Debate & discussion
- arena
- compare
- conciliate
- dialectic
- float around
- fly
- fly around
- get down to business idiom
- kick sth around
- negotiable
- negotiate
- parley
- reason with sb
- sit
- sophistry
- speak
- talk sth out
- talk sth over
- thrash
- toss
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hot adjective (NEW/EXCITING)
C1 new and exciting:
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- What's a hot look this autumn?
- I've got a hot tip for you.
- They're a hot new band from Manchester.
- Bold prints are a hot look this season.
- The band are being tipped as one of the hot acts of next year.
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Exciting and interesting
- absorbing
- action-packed
- alley
- arresting
- barnstorming
- glowing
- gnarly
- gripping
- interesting
- interestingly
- meaty
- rip-roaring
- rousing
- Roy of the Rovers stuff
- scintillating
- sensational
- sensationally
- sex sth up
- showstopper
- whirlwind
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hot adjective (SKILFUL)
[ after verb ] informal knowing a lot or skilful:
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Skilled, talented and able
- able
- ably
- accomplished
- adept
- adroit
- expert
- gifted
- handy
- have a nice, good, etc. line in sth idiom
- have inner resources idiom
- intimate 1
- polished
- practised
- preen
- proficient
- proficiently
- qualified
- slick
- with the best of them idiom
- workmanlike
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hot adjective (MOST LIKELY)
an accurate piece of advice about who will win a race:
the person or animal that is most likely to win a race, competition, election, etc.:
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Gambling & bookmaking
- ante
- bank
- banker
- bet
- bookmaker
- chip
- cockfight
- dice
- draw
- gamble
- gaming table
- grab bag
- heads or tails? idiom
- high roller
- juke joint
- lucky dip
- spin a coin idiom
- stake
- tombola
- toss
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hot adjective (DEMANDING)
to think that a particular thing is very important and to demand that it is done well or correctly:
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Very important or urgent
- all-important
- arch
- at all cost(s) idiom
- be a matter of life and/or death idiom
- burning
- chief
- considerable
- critical
- major league
- make the world go around/round idiom
- materially
- minor league
- mission-critical
- prized
- prominent
- radical
- sacred
- salient
- seriously
- substantial
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hot adjective (STOLEN)
slang Hot goods have been recently stolen and are therefore difficult to sell or dangerous to deal with because the police are still looking for them.
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Stealing
- abscond
- aggravated burglary
- appropriate
- armed robbery
- break in/break into sth
- duff
- larceny
- liberate
- light-fingered
- loot
- looting
- relieve
- rip sth off
- rob
- robbery
- run off with sth
- scrump
- skim
- sting
- whip
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hot adjective (SEXY)
informal sexually attractive, or feeling sexually excited:
hot adjective (ANGRY)
If someone has a hot temper, they are easily made angry.
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Bad-tempered
- argumentative
- bad-tempered
- be hell on wheels idiom
- be like a bear with a sore head idiom
- be spoiling for a fight idiom
- bilious
- dyspeptic
- fractious
- get out of bed (on) the wrong side idiom
- grouchy
- grumpy
- have a short fuse idiom
- peppery
- petulant
- pugnacious
- quarrelsome
- quick temper
- touchy
- truculent
- wear thin idiom
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