| Main Entry: | boiling |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very hot |
Synonyms: |
baking, blistering, broiling, burning, fiery, hot, red-hot, roasting, scalding, scorching, sizzling, torrid, tropical, warm |
Antonyms: |
freezing |
| Main Entry: | broiling |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very hot |
Synonyms: |
baking, burning, fiery, on fire, red-hot, roasting, scalding, scorching, sizzling, sweltering, torrid |
Antonyms: |
freezing |
| Main Entry: | burning |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | blazing, flashing |
Synonyms: |
afire, aflame, alight, blistering, broiling, conflagrant, enkindled, fiery, flaming, flaring, gleaming, glowing, heated, hot, ignited, illuminated, in flames, incandescent, kindled, on fire, oxidizing, red-hot, scorching, searing, sizzling, smoking, smouldering, torrid, white-hot |
Antonyms: |
cold, cool |
| Main Entry: | burning |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fervent, excited |
Synonyms: |
all-consuming, ardent, blazing, eager, earnest, fervid, feverish, frantic, frenzied, heated, hectic, impassioned, intense, passionate, red-hot, vehement, white-hot, zealous |
Antonyms: |
apathetic, cold, cool, unexcited, unimportant |
| Main Entry: | contemporary |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | modern |
Synonyms: |
abreast, au courant, contempo, current, existent, extant, hot off press, in fashion, in vogue, instant, just out, latest, leading-edge, mod, new, newfangled, now, present, present-day, recent, red-hot, state-of-the-art*, today, topical, ultramodern, up*, up-to-date, up-to-the-minute, voguish, with it, à la mode |
| Notes: | contemporary can be predicated of persons, conditions, or events; contemporaneous is predicable only of occurrences or events |
Antonyms: |
old, old-fashioned, past, preceding |
| Main Entry: | enthusiastic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | interested, excited |
Synonyms: |
agog, animated, anxious, ardent, athirst, attracted, avid, bugged, concerned, crazy about, devoted, dying to, eager, earnest, ebullient, exhilarated, exuberant, fanatical, fascinated, fervent, fervid, forceful, gaga, gone on, gung ho, hearty, intent, keen, keyed up, lively, nutty, obsessed, passionate, pleased, rabid, red-hot, rhapsodic, spirited, tantalized, thrilled, titillated, unqualified, vehement, vigorous, wacky*, warm, wholehearted, willing, zealous |
Antonyms: |
apathetic, disinterested, doubting, indifferent, lethargic, pessimistic, unenthusiastic, unexcited, weary |
| Main Entry: | fiery |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | passionate; on fire |
Synonyms: |
ablaze, afire, aflame, agitable, alight, blazing, burning, choleric, combustible, conflagrant, enthusiastic, excitable, febrile, fervid, fevered, feverish, fierce, flaming, flaring, flickering, flushed, glowing, heated, hot, hot-blooded, hot-headed, hot-tempered, igneous, ignited, impassioned, impetuous, impulsive, in flames, inflamed, intense, irascible, irritable, madcap, peppery, perfervid, precipitate, red-hot, spirited, unrestrained, vehement, violent |
Antonyms: |
cold, cool, dull, flat, impassive, subdued |
| Main Entry: | flaming |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | burning |
Synonyms: |
ablaze, afire, aflame, alight, blazing, brilliant, conflagrant, fiery, flaring, glowing, ignited, in flames, raging, red, red-hot |
| Main Entry: | flaming |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very angry, vehement |
Synonyms: |
ardent, aroused, blazing, bright, burning, fervent, frenzied, hot, hot-blooded, impassioned, intense, passionate, raging, red-hot, scintillating, vivid, white-hot |
Antonyms: |
gleeful, happy, joyful, pleased |
| Main Entry: | hot dog |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | frankfurter |
Synonyms: |
Georgia hot, boaster, crowd-pleaser, dog, flaunter, foot long, footlong, frank, frankfurter, grandstander, hotshot, pigs in a blanket, red-hot, redhot, sausage, showboat, weenie, weenie, wiener |