How to Spell hot

hot

hot - adjective

  • Having a relatively high temperature
  • Capable of giving a sensation of heat or of burning, searing, or scalding
  • Having heat in a degree exceeding normal body heat
  • Marked by violence or fierceness : stormy
Source: Merriam-Webster Dictionary API
"hot and humid weather"

hot - thesaurus

Synonyms: ardent, boiling, broiling, burning, fervent, fervid, fiery, piping hot

Antonyms: algid, arctic, bitter, bone-chilling, cold, freezing, frigid, frozen

Etymology

Middle English hot, hoot, (northern) hat, going back to Old English hāt, going back to Germanic *haita- (whence also Old Frisian & Old Saxon hēt "having a high temperature, burning," Old High German heiz, Old Norse heitr), of uncertain origin

Word family

hotter, hottest, heat

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