hot
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
How often you will meet it
Rank 849 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 21,546 times across 173,643 chapters — 0.010% of every word in the library.
It belongs to the first 1,000 words, the band worth learning before any other.
What it means
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 hot stovehot water
- characterized by violent and forceful activity or movement; very intense also: raging the fighting became hot and heavya hot engagement
- extended meanings; especially of psychological heat; marked by intensity or vehemence especially of passion or enthusiasm a hot tempera hot topic
- (color) bold and intense hot pink
- sexually excited or exciting was hot for herhot pants
- recently stolen or smuggled hot merchandisea hot car
hot in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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Johnny, hot and squirming under the merry presidential eye, wondered if they were going to cheer all night.
The Courage of the Commonplace · Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews · Chapter 1
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The weather being excessively hot, with little air, obliged me for the most part, to keep within doors.
The Life and Most Surprising Adventures · Daniel Defoe · Chapter 1
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Mrs. Wiggs's hands were rough and knotted, but love taught them to be gentle as she smoothed his hot head.
Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch · Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice · Chapter 1
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About four days out from Victoria we plunged into hot weather, and all the male passengers put on white linen clothes.
Following the Equator — Part 1 · Mark Twain · Chapter 1
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If the buttery-hatch at court stood continually open, there would be nothing so passionate crowding, nor hot suit after the beverage.
The White Devil · John Webster · Chapter 1