hot

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English Vietnamese dictionary

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Advanced English dictionary

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adjective, verb
+ adjective (hotter, hottest)
temperature
1 having a high temperature; producing heat: Do you like this hot weather? + It's hot today, isn't it? + It was hot and getting hotter. + It was the hottest July on record. + a hot dry summer + Be careful-the plates are hot. + All rooms have hot and cold water. + a hot bath + a hot meal (= one that has been cooked) + I couldn't live in a hot country (= one which has high average temperatures). + Cook in a very hot oven. + Eat it while it's hot. + I touched his forehead. He felt hot and feverish.
See also - BAKING HOT, BOILING HOT, PIPING HOT, RED-HOT, WHITE-HOT
2 (of a person) feeling heat in an unpleasant or uncomfortable way: Is anyone too hot? + I feel hot. + Her cheeks were hot with embarrassment.
3 making you feel hot: London was hot and dusty. + a long hot journey
food
4 containing pepper and spices and producing a burning feeling in your mouth: hot spicy food + You can make a curry hotter simply by adding chillies. + hot mustard
Antonym: MILD
causing strong feelings
5 involving a lot of activity, argument or strong feelings: Today we enter the hottest phase of the election campaign. + The environment has become a very hot issue. + Competition is getting hotter day by day.
difficult / dangerous
6 difficult or dangerous to deal with and making you feel worried or uncomfortable: When things got too hot most journalists left the area. + They're making life hot for her.
popular
7 (informal) new, exciting and very popular: This is one of the hottest clubs in town. + They are one of this year's hot new bands on the rock scene. + The couple are Hollywood's hottest property.
news
8 fresh, very recent and usually exciting: I've got some hot gossip for you! + a story that is hot off the press (= has just appeared in the newspapers)
tip / favourite
9 [only before noun] likely to be successful: She seems to be the hot favourite for the job. + Do you have any hot tips for today's race?
good at sth / knowing a lot
10 [not before noun] ~ at / on sth (informal) very good at doing sth; knowing a lot about sth: Don't ask me-I'm not too hot on British history.
anger
11 if sb has a hot temper they become angry very easily
sexual excitement
12 feeling or causing sexual excitement: You were as hot for me as I was for you. + I've got a hot date tonight.
shocking / critical
13 containing scenes, statements, etc. that are too shocking or too critical and are likely to cause anger or disapproval: Some of the nude scenes were regarded as too hot for Broadway. + The report was highly critical of senior members of the Cabinet and was considered too hot to publish.
See also - HOT STUFF
strict
14 [not before noun] ~ on sth thinking that sth is very important and making sure that it always happens or is done: They're very hot on punctuality at work.
music
15 (of music, especially jazz) having a strong and exciting rhythm
goods
16 stolen and difficult to get rid of because they can easily be recognized: I'd never have touched those CDs if I'd known they were hot.
in children's games
17 [not before noun] used in children's games to say that the person playing is very close to finding a person or thing, or to guessing the correct answer: You're getting hot!
Idioms: be in / get into hot water (informal) to be in or get into trouble
go hot and cold to experience a sudden feeling of fear or anxiety: When the phone rang I just went hot and cold.
go / sell like hot cakes to sell quickly or in great numbers
(all) hot and bothered (informal) in a state of anxiety or confusion because you are under too much pressure, have a problem, are trying to hurry, etc.
hot on sb's / sth's heels following sb/sth very closely: He turned and fled with Peter hot on his heels. + Further successes came hot on the heels of her first best-selling novel.
hot on sb's / sth's tracks / trail (informal) close to catching or finding the person or thing that you have been chasing or searching for
hot under the collar (informal) angry or embarrassed: He got very hot under the collar when I asked him where he'd been all day.
in hot pursuit (of sb) following sb closely and determined to catch them: She sped away in her car with journalists in hot pursuit.
not so / too hot
1 not very good in quality: Her spelling isn't too hot.
2 not feeling well: 'How are you today?' 'Not so hot, I'm afraid.'
more at BLOW v., CAT, HEEL n., STRIKE v.
+ verb (-tt-)
Phrasal Verbs: hot up (BrE) (also heat up AmE, BrE) (informal) to become more exciting or to show an increase in activity: Things are really hotting up in the election campaign. + The title race is certainly hotting up. + The pace is hotting up.

Thesaurus dictionary

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adj.

1 fiery, white-hot, red-hot, piping hot, burning, blistering, scorching, roasting, frying, sizzling, searing, boiling, scalding, steaming, simmering, torrid, sweltering, sultry, heated:

The hot, molten steel is cast into ingots here. During the day it is hot, but it cools down at night

2 spicy, peppery, sharp, piquant, pungent, biting, acrid:

She likes very hot food, with plenty of chilli.

3 intense, fervent, zealous, ardent, enthusiastic, passionate, fervid, vehement, excited, animated; impetuous, fiery, fierce, inflamed, sharp, violent:

He had some hot words with the foreman who had dismissed him.

4 eager, keen, avid, anxious, burning; intense, fervent, zealous, ardent, enthusiastic, passionate, fervid, vehement, excited, animated, earnest, Slang US gung-ho:

Desmond set out in hot pursuit of the thief.

5 recent, fresh, new, latest, brand-new:

The hottest gossip is that she is marrying for the seventh time.

6 popular, sought-after, commercial, saleable, marketable:

The publisher believes Zenobia's Memoirs to be the hot property of the year.

7 lustful, lecherous, libidinous, lubricous or lubricious, sensual, concupiscent, prurient, licentious, oversexed, sex-crazed, sex-mad, Archaic lickerish, horn-mad, Slang horny, Chiefly Brit randy, US hard up:

They were really hot, not having been with anyone of the opposite sex for months.

8 intense, vivid, striking, bright, brilliant, dazzling, loud:

That hot pink lipstick looks good with your suntan.

9 electrified, live, charged, powered:

The hot wire connects to the other terminal - I think.

10 dangerous, precarious, risky, sensitive, delicate, unstable, touchy, unpredictable:

The situation is getting a bit too hot to handle.

v.

11 hot up. intensify, build up, heighten, increase, worsen, warm up, heat up:

The environment is hotting up as a political issue.

Collocation dictionary

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¹ of the weather

VERBS

be | become, get, grow

The sun shone fiercely down and it grew hotter and hotter.

ADV.

baking, blazing, bloody

(taboo),

boiling, exceedingly, exceptionally, extremely, incredibly, insufferably, intensely, oppressively, really, scorching, stiflingly, swelteringly, unbearably, uncomfortably, unusually, very

a boiling hot summer's day It was unbearably hot in the car.

| a bit, fairly, pretty, quite, rather

This weather's a bit hot for me.

² of a person

VERBS

be, feel, look

Don't you feel hot so close to the fire?

| get, grew

They had been going steadily up for half an hour and she was beginning to get uncomfortably hot. His face grew hot at the memory of his embarrassment.

ADV.

boiling, burning, extremely, really, uncomfortably, very

I was boiling hot and sweaty. His forehead was burning hot.

| a bit, quite, rather

³ of a thing

VERBS

be, feel, look, seem | get

ADV.

extremely, really, red-, scalding, very, white-

white-hot metal

| a bit, fairly, moderately, quite, rather, slightly

Wash the tablecloth in fairly hot soapy water. Bake in a moderately hot oven.

| enough, sufficiently

The ground was hot enough to fry an egg on.

⁴ of food: not cold

VERBS

be | keep, stay

The food should stay hot until we're ready to eat.

| keep sth

The containers keep the food hot for five hours.

| eat sth, serve sth

Serve hot or cold accompanied by bread and a salad.

ADV.

piping, really, scalding, sizzling, steaming, very

a bowl of piping hot soup Make sure the fat is sizzling hot.

| a bit, fairly, quite, rather

⁵ of food: spicy

VERBS

be, taste

ADV.

extremely, really, very

I love really hot food.

| a bit, pretty, quite, slightly

That was a pretty hot curry!

Concise English dictionary

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hotter|hottesthɑt /hɒt
adj.
+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; capable of quick response and great speed
+wanted by the police
+being very spicy
+performed or performing with unusually great skill and daring and energy
+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
+having or showing great eagerness or enthusiasm
+of a seeker; very near to the object sought
+having or dealing with dangerously high levels of radioactivity
+charged or energized with electricity
+marked by excited activity